Mark Woods, CEO of CMAT, has been growing his own feral Lockdown Beard since the 20th March 2020. No shaving, no trimming- it's seen less attention over the last 6 months than his passport has. 

Initially, Mark swore he would not touch his beard until all the students were back at school full time. Of course, his family and colleagues were horrified... surely he could not keep this up untll June....(when he first thought we would be back)

It is now September and you can see how ridiculous he looks.  But he may not stop here. Now he is leaving the fate of his ghastly beard to you:

We have set up two campaigns- one will end in Mark eradicating his beard, to his wife and colleagues' delight! 

However, the other campaign will see Mark continue to grow his beard until school breaks up for Christmas. As if it couldn't get any worse, if the latter campaign wins he vows to dye his beard white and become "CMAT's very own Santa Claus". Needless to say, I doubt he would have anyone to spend Christmas Day with should this be the case.

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The cut off date could not come soon enough for Mark's family... his parents say that despite their unconditional parental love, they are sure he would look younger and more handsome without him.

His mother-in-law is even less impressed. She says that there are so many white flecks in his beard, it won't even need dyeing by Christmas!

So, who will you stand with? Will you allow Mark to disgrace himself, or will you come through for his despairing family and put an end to this madness?

We'll leave that up to you :)