My department at work did a charity beard-growing for Barnardo's. Those of us with existing beards also were able to take part. At the end of the growing period, we had a department meeting and members of the department were presented with a range of facial hair options. Then every beard was auctioned off - basically people bid on what style we had to shave our beards into.

Tragically, the style with the highest bid for me was mutton chops / no moustache, so the long moustache had to go.

We raised £500 though.