Movember is coming!

2023 was our most successful year so far. Team GGS was ranked 18^th in the UK for the Movember Schools Challenge. We raised over £3,416 and on the back of our decade long participation in this amazing charity, we have become charter members of the Movember Hall of Fame.

This year is our 16th Movember and it needs to be even bigger, even more spectacular and even more successful than any of our previous Movembers. The PE Department and the Key Stage 5 Team have jumped on some new opportunities for students to raise funds for Movember. Keystage 5, students are invited to grow moustaches and compete for the Student Movember Award. This prize has two criteria – moustache quality and funds raised. All students will also have the opportunity to participate in the Movember Mo-movement challenge – setting themselves a physical activity target for the month and then collecting funds from sponsors once they have achieved their physical activity goal. Movember bobble hats and bucket hats will be on sale during Movember (more details to follow) and there will also be a Movember Non-Uniform Day later in the month, fake moustaches optional!

The Movember charity was born in Melbourne, Australia in 2003. A group of friends asked two vital questions: Where had all the moustaches gone and how could they use the mo to raise money for charity. That first year involved thirty ‘mo-bros’ and was so popular that in 2004 the friends formed a registered company, began linking themselves to men’s health charity and began spreading the word of the mo! 2006 saw the charity spread to New Zealand and by 2007 there were moustaches sprouting all over the world. Since those early days more than six million mo-bros and mo-sistas have raised well over £500,000,000 for men’s health research and associated charities. 1250 vital men’s health projects have been funded by the Movember organisation since those heady days of 2003.

Team GGS Movember page (you can donate directly to our team at this link): https://movember.com/t/team-ggs?mc=1 or scan the QR code above.

JCM