WELL-GROOMED men with outrageous beards and moustaches in all shapes and sizes will do the time warp again in one of Oxford’s fuzziest competitions.

Beard lovers will go head-to-head in a hairy host of 1970s-themed categories, including sport-star 'taches, psychedelic shaped afros and ‘hippy beards’, at the fifth annual Oxford Beard Festival next week.

Competitors can even battle it out for the best '70’s pornstar’ themed fur – with organisers making a faux name generator for participants wanting to channel their inner Ron Jeremy.

The fabulous festival of facial fuzz is run by mother and daughter Sue Higgins and Faith King from Long Wittenham.

Ms Higgins said: “You can’t take yourself too seriously.

“I wear a moustache at the event – I look good in a moustache actually.”

The facial hair fiesta began in 2012 and, after a successful year and a high demand, then returned in 2014.

They have been swinging open the doors at Tap Social brewery on the Curtis Industrial Estate every year since.

Speaking about how the event started, the 50-year-old said: “We watched an American programme called Whisker Wars, that’s how a lot of people got into beard competing in the UK.”

More than 100 people showed their love of beards last year, with more expected to head to this year's event next Saturday, October 6, from midday to 11pm.

Festival-goers donate cash, and participants pay £10 to compete, all proceeds going to charity.

This year the funds will be split across two charities – Oxford Food Bank, which is next door to Tap Social and redistributes surplus food from supermarkets to groups in need, and the Lions Barber Collective.

The group of barbers, who teamed up with mental health charity Mind and the Samaritans, are tackling the issue of male suicide by getting their customers to open up about their feelings while getting a haircut.

Ms Higgins said: “Oxford Foodbank is just a good one and the barber is a really great charity helping young people.

“We know the guys, they just do so much good work.”

Music from local band Franklin’s Tower will kick-start the festival, before vinyls with a compilation of 70’s groovy tunes are amplified on an old-school record player to close the show.

This year's whiskered winners will be chosen by judges in nine categories: film and TV, pop stars, suave and slick, psychedelic, sport stars, handmade, hippy, ‘as you were in the 70s’ and pornstar.

The frontman of Oxford rock 'n' roll band Beard of Destiny will be one of the deciders, as well as Tim Smith from male grooming products company the Bearded Rapscallion.

Other sponsors include Tap Social, Cotswold Hipster and BILF.

The event is not exclusive to those who can grow beards.