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The History of Movember

By MattyB89

  • Men sport lip ticklers for charity in Australia

    Movember was created by a group of guys in Melbourne, Australia. The friends joke about bringing back the popular 70s fashion for a month. However, after receiving negative reviews about the facial hair the guys decided the next year to grow moustaches to raise awareness for men's health.

  • Movember Foundation launches in New Zealand

    This was the first 'official' year of Movember. The Movember Foundation charity began hosting events to raise awareness about the Movember campaign and men's health issues as well as money for charity. In Australia and New Zealand, Movember also focuses on mental health issues like depression.

  • Mo' Money, Mo' Problems

    Today Tonight, a Melbourne current affairs program, accused the Movember Foundation of spending too much money on running costs and paying high salaries to company directors.

  • Movember goes Worldwide

    Movember events are launched around the world including Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, South Africa, the United States, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Israel, Cyprus and Spain

  • Scots College student banned from exam over Mo'

    The Dominion Post released a story involving an 18-year-old student who was banned from writing his final exam because he was participating in Movember. Luke Slattery, Movember founder, called the school's stance disappointing for punishing the student rather than praising him for raising awareness.

  • Canadians raise $22 million for Mo' Charities

    Nearly 119,000 Canadian men and women participated in the event and raised $22 million for Prostate Cancer Canada and to raise awareness and education on prostate cancer and men's health.

  • Movember merges with TacheBack

    TacheBack, a UK version of Movember, merges with the Movember Foundation to help focus raising money and awareness for prostate cancer.

  • Canada first in the moustache leaderboard

    Canada had 204,757 registered members, second only to the United Kingdom 214,238. However, Canada has raised $10,944,122(US) compared to the UK's $6,450,528(US). A week later Canada had 228,721 registered participants and over $17 million raised.