The male members of Tidal Transit Limited based in Norfolk are throwing away their razors in support of Movember 2014 – the global campaign to promote awareness of men’s health and well-being.
Tidal Transit supplies purpose-designed charter personnel transfer vessels (PTVs) to the offshore wind energy industry, and employs 33 men in various capacities. Commercial Director Leo Hambro, who is behind the campaign, said: “This is the first time Tidal Transit, as a company, has taken part in the Movember Campaign and our team of ‘Tidal Bandits’ are fully behind it. We will all be giving our razors a rest for the next four weeks.”
The Movember campaign has been running for ten years. In 2003, two Australian friends discussing changing fashion trends were mourning the passing of the ‘mo’ – the mustache to non-Australians. Inspired by a friend’s mother who was supporting a campaign in aid of breast cancer, they came up with the idea of encouraging men to grow a ‘mo’ during the month of November to raise money to help the fight against prostate cancer. That year 30 men took up the challenge.
Fast forward to 2013, and there were 4,002,688 participating ‘Mo Bros and Sistas’ from 21 countries. In ten years, the campaign has raised £346 million and funded 770 men’s health projects – quite an achievement from hairy upper lips!
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Press release; Image: Tidal Transit