We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. A group of university students have stripped naked for a charity calendar. Rowers at the University of Glasgow posed nude to raise much-needed funds for the Beatson Cancer Charity. The Glasgow-based charity supports those affected by cancer as well as funding specialists, research and education to invest in a better future for cancer patients and their families. This year, rowers from the Glasgow University Boat Club braved the cold to shoot their annual nude calendar on a very chilly Autumn morning.

Nude calendars are a special type of wall calendar or table calendar that feature nude models in a variety of scenes and locations. Predominantly in the United Kingdom , nude calendars are produced to raise money for charity. Commercial advertising on calendars started in the late 19th century and has often been linked to pictures or photographs of pin-up models. The products being advertised may be incorporated via product placement in the pictures themselves or separate via logos and corporate in-house style.

The amateur nude calendars that have become remarkably widespread over the last two decades. What started as a gimmick is now, seemingly, an integral part of the new year — the charity nude calendar, posed by members of organisations and sold in varying numbers internationally. The popularity of that opened the floodgates, and while no one has managed anything like the success of that effort, you can guarantee that a nude calendar will get local newspaper headlines or possibly national press coverage if the models are sexy enough and make a bit of money for a chosen charity or held fund an organisation.

By Bridie Pearson-jones For Mailonline. Farmers from across Britain have stripped off and posed amid hay bales and animals including cattle, sheep and dogs for a naked charity calendar. Photographer Nicola de Pulford travelled all over the country taking pictures of the brave volunteers who agreed to tastefully undress for a chance to appear as the farming star of the month in the charity calendar. Photos show the frisky farmers doing their usual work - only completely in the buff. Farmers from across Britain have stripped off and posed amid hay bails and animals for a naked calendar.