STAFF at the Hope and Anchor Inn are tackling testicular and prostate cancer face first.

Members of staff at the Hope Cove pub were all clean-shaven on Sunday, November 1, and will now grow moustaches and facial hair throughout November, turning November into Movember and raising money for the Movember foundation.

As well as two collection buckets on the bar for people to donate to Movember, the staff will also be donating their tips for the month of November too. In the first week, they had already collected £211.54.

Manager Chris Roberts said: ‘We’re so busy during the season that, apart from our work with the Hope Cove Lifeboat, we don’t have much opportunity to give back something back.

‘Movember is an ideal way to get the whole team involved in charity, and is the starting point for us in a winter of fundraising. We are helping to support POOCH later this month, and we’ll be doing more after Christmas!’

Alongside their year-round support of the Hope Cove Lifeboat, the pub will also be the finishing point for Sarah’s Wheelbarrow Challenge on Saturday, November 21, raising money for POOCH: Plymouth Oncology, Outpatients and CHemotherapy.

The Movember Foundation works to improve all aspects of men’s health, globally. They say on their website: ‘Gender is one of the strongest and most consistent predictors of health and life expectancy. For men, this is not good news. On average, across the world, men die six years earlier than women.

‘Moreover, poor mental health affects men more than women: three quarters of suicides are by men. The World Health Organisation estimates that 510,000 men die from suicide globally each year. That’s one every minute.

‘The impact of prostate and testicular cancer on lives is substantial, with prostate cancer being the second most common cancer in men worldwide and the number of cases expected to almost double to 1.7 million cases by 2030.’