Mos make progress

Some men in the timber trade may be starting to resemble desperadoes – but it's all in the name of charity.

Staff at The Timber Trade Federation, Rembrand Timber and James Donaldson & Sons are all taking part in the annual Movember event, where men grow moustaches to raise money for prostate and testicular cancer awareness and research.

At the Timber Trade Federation chief executive John White; head of technical and trade affairs Nick Boulton; Nick Llewellin; sustainability executive Anand Punja; and ReThink director Stuart Harker, have been joined by Robert Allinson from Weyerhaeuser Products Ltd and Geoff Boxall from Pacific Lumber Services (UK) Ltd to form the Timber Trade Tash's team.

The Rembrand Timber team – known as Rembrand Flavour Savours – comprises Ben Leng, Graham Garden, Michael Higgins, Jeff Low, Jon Collinson, Steve Essex, Mark Phillips and George Low. They are already well on their way to reaching their fund-raising target of £1,000 with a donation of £200 from Cheshire Mouldings.

The James Donaldson team Lee Robinson, Jason McAteer, Robert Aldred and Oli James from the Ilkeston branch of Donaldson Timber Engineering and Rob Hill from Parker Kislingbury.

To make a donation, go to http://uk.movember.com/donate/ and search for the team name.