ABOUT 220 hairy men converged at Flying Brick Cider House last week to raise awareness and funds for men\u2019s health.<\/p>\n
The 14th annual Movember \u201cGentlemen of Geelong\u201d Lunch, which was attended by AFL coaching great Kevin Sheedy and radio personality Ian Cover, raised an impressive $60,000 for six worthy charities.<\/p>\n
These included National Centre for Farmer Health, Headspace Geelong, Lifeline, Movember Foundation, Beyond Blue and Aussie Helpers.<\/p>\n
Organiser Andrew Morrison said the focus of the event was about getting blokes together for a bit of fun, while also drawing attention to men\u2019s health and suicide prevention.<\/p>\n
Depression and suicide was an issue that touched quite a lot of attendees and the backbone of the lunch was to encourage men to think and talk more about traditional \u201cno go\u201d areas, recognise signs in themselves and others and work on prevention.<\/p>\n
The blokes were waited on by the organising committee\u2019s wives and friends, including Corangamite federal member Sarah Henderson, who kindly donated her time to help out with the event.<\/p>\n
Mr Morrison said Sheedy also attended the event for free, after he won his attendance at another fundraising auction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he was expecting to sit down at a lunch with 10 blokes, but there were a lot more at this one,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n
The Gentlemen of Geelong organisers were Mick Kramer, David Sharp, Andrew Morrison, Greg Cracknell and Peter Ansell.<\/p>\n
Mr Morrison said instead of holding one big annual event next year, the organisers were aiming to run a few men\u2019s health days with guest speakers.<\/p>\n
Anyone wanting to donate to the cause can head to au.movember.com, type in \u201cGentlemen of Geelong\u201d then select their man to donate to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ABOUT 220 hairy men converged at Flying Brick Cider House last week to raise awareness and funds for men\u2019s health. The 14th annual Movember \u201cGentlemen of Geelong\u201d Lunch, which was attended by AFL coaching great Kevin Sheedy and radio personality Ian Cover, raised an impressive $60,000 for six worthy charities. These included National Centre for […]<\/p>\n