What people don’t understand about #Movember, is that they don’t actually do anything ‘on the ground’, so to speak. They just raise funds, and campaign. That’s it. Raise funds. Campaign. Raise funds. Campaign. And the people peering into microscopes, studying male life expectancy, offering therapy, creating men’s groups, sheltering abused men, supporting fatherless boys, and researching male suicide… that work, the life saving work, is done by someone else, some of whom are funded by Movember. That’s how they operate. Movember raises the money, and they distribute it to the little guys, across the UK, who are doing “the work”. Which, in theory, is fine. The issue is, only 15% of the money given to Movember by the UK public actually makes it to these essential grassroots, frontline charities working in the UK. The rest goes… elsewhere… Who knows where the remaining 85p goes – to a global jet setting lifestyle of fancy conferences, entertainment, buffets, marketing, staff “away days”, expensive tv ads, photoshoots, marketing, a ballooning payroll, bonuses, their overpaid “masculinity experts”, marketing, and of course, the enormous, ever-growing mountain of cash that is sat in their bank. £54.3 MILLION of mostly *your* money, which *you* raised - sat, unspent, in their bank. Right now. Yes. That’s nearly ten times what they gave last year to all of the UK mens health programme’s combined, and here they are again, cap in hand, wanting more. So, here’s an idea – Let’s just give directly to the UK grassroots charities instead; those desperate for cash, circling the drain of bankruptcy, who are heroically doing the actual work (without all the frivolous guff), for whom your money will go much, much further. For many, your pound (all of it) will literally keep the lights on, the phone lines working, and the door ever open, to men and boys who are in need. Happy November. This year, let’s support UK grassroots charities instead. - Movember Europe Charity Commission accounts 23/24 https://tinyurl.com/2eh5c4ys

2025-10-31