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KEITH Robinson and several other athletes will be doing all they can – while wearing kilts – to raise money and awareness for men’s health this Movember. The Movember Foundation has been operating for 13 years and in that time has funded more than 1,200 men’s health projects around the world. Since 2003 more than 5.3 million people have participated in the now global Movember month. Men experience worse longer-term health than women and die on average six years earlier. Prostate cancer rates will double in the next 15 years. Testicular cancer rates have already doubled in the last 50 and three quarters of suicides are men. Poor mental health leads to half a million men taking their own life every year, or one every minute. This year, Mr Robinson and his League of Kilted Athletes will be growing moustaches and raising funds and awareness for this important topic. “Being all about men’s health it’s important men talk,” he said. “They tend to go to the doctor less, to suck it up so to speak. There are some scary statistics out there regarding men’s health, and that they need to get help and talk rather than ignore their problems.” He will be joined by James Stevenson, Cliff Hoeft, Matt Bell, Matt Polock and Julia Thompson, who may have less luck growing a mo than the others. “We’re doing some running in kilts, we have a Movember flag and headbands, and we will try and grow some facial hair, some more successfully than others,” Mr Robinson said. “We have a challenge to see what the most out there thing is we can do while wearing the kilt. “Whether that’s going to the shops, donating blood or whatever. It should be great.” Mrs Thompson has friends and relatives who have had, and currently have, prostate cancer. “I found this group through park run when I moved to Port and I like to support these charities, as well as do something different by wearing the kilt around,” she said. “Initially Keith had a project to do 50 half marathons in a year, and it was good to get on board by wearing a kilt alongside him,” Mr Stevenson added. “When you do that you get noticed a bit more and that made me want to get on board with Movember.” To donate to Keith and the kilted crew CLICK HERE

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