For a second time Cooma's Paul McGufficke is shaving off his locks (and beard) for a good cause - on this occasion to help fellow team members from Woolworths Cooma raise money for the Monaro Prostate Cancer Support Group.

Paul's passion and local community spirit are evident, from his involvement with the Blood Bank visits to Cooma for 20 years to his support with fundraising for community groups, and involvement in the Cooma Lions Club.

His research on local war veterans over a number of years and fact-finding missions to war fronts overseas has been a pet project, which will culminate in the publication of a book in October.

Woolworths team members Marietta Corey and Athne Paul have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to organise the fundraiser. Over August staff at Woolworths in Cooma have been encouraged to show their support by wearing the colour blue on a Thursday and Friday, they also held a bake sale at the front of Woolworths which raised more than $1000.

Saturday 29 August is an opportunity for the public to add its support when Paul's hair and beard are shaved off.

He will be outside of Woolworths where, for $20 a clip, members of the community can grab the clippers and shave a strip of his hair or beard. Paul hopes there might be a bidding war for each strip to be clipped, which will raise more money.

"I'll do an auction for the first strip. The first winning bid or person to donate will go straight down the middle of my head, there should be seven or eight strips to finish the head and probably another seven or eight for the beard."

Tickets will also be sold for a $600 trolley of groceries at $5 a ticket.

Second and third prizes in the raffle were donated by Athne Paul. The raffle will be drawn in the first week of September.

In June the Woolworths team raised $4000 for the local cancer organisation, mcCr.

Paul has had a beard since he was 25-years-old. The hair and beard were shaved off once before, about 15 years ago, to raise funds for a local group, so it's been a while since he was hairless.

"The hair and the beard is due for a trim and I thought I'll just get someone to whip it off. The fundraiser is a bit of fun, and it's also good fun for the staff around the store and customers," he said.

Once this fundraiser is over Paul will focus on his upcoming book launch.

"It will be nice to not be busy, the book especially has taken up a lot of time. It keeps me out of the pub for a couple of minutes a day," Paul laughed.

"When we do the fundraisers we like to keep the money for local groups, so it stays local. When the hair and beard comes off I'm not going to cry about it, it's to help raise money and that's the main thing."