Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts

Monday, January 09, 2012

Barely There

Massey University Students Get Naked For Charity | Stuff.co.nzMassey University students have made thousands of dollars this year by taking off their clothes.
The university's 'Barely There 2010-11' calendar - which features naked third-year veterinary students posing behind well-positioned animals and props - has raised $3000 for SPCA Canterbury.
Order one here, if they haven't sold out, for $15NZ plus shipping.

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

MCR Presidents' New Clothes

MCR Presidents bare all for charity | The Oxford StudentUndergraduates will be seeing more of their tutors than they bargained for as the MCR Presidents’ Committee prepares to launch its charity naked calendar on Tuesday.
A mixture of current and former MCR presidents have been photographed nude over recent weeks in the hope their calendar will raise money for The Gold Coast Fund, a charity founded by former St Hilda’s MCR Vice-President Kojo Minta who died this August aged 24.
Read about the launch party. There doesn't seem to be a way to order it over the web.

Thursday, September 01, 2011

Nottingham University Girls Polo Club 2011

Nottingham Polo Club Nude Calendar
For the third year running we have chosen to support our brave troops and donate a percentage of profits to the amazing charity Help for Heroes. Thanks to our sponsors, TPMC, we are able to increase our support and donate a whopping 50% of every sale of 2011 calendars to the cause! The remaining profits are used to subsidise our university tournaments, allowing us to lower the financial barriers and make the wonderful sport of polo more accessible to all students.
The above link goes to the club's own page, from which the calendar was purchasable. Still looking for sample images from the other years' calendars...

Monday, August 29, 2011

Davallament youth group

Guardian | Naked passion of Christ calendar shocks Mallorcan CatholicsA Catholic youth group has shocked its religious superiors in Mallorca by producing a calendar that features a nude version of the passion of Christ.
The wrath of the bishop of Mallorca has fallen on the Davallament youth group from the Spanish island's town of Sant Joan after they decided to make the stripped-down version of the Easter week story to raise funds.
See also portfolioLATINO, Fox News. They had "almost sold out" by January 2011.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Bare Because We Care

Bare Because We Care 2011 Calendars on Sale Now
At Nipomo Dog and Cat Hospital we have a lovely and talented team who truly care about the dogs and cats of Nipomo. We have been talking and joking about making such a calendar for almost two years. This year we have published our first “Bare Because We Care” Calendar. Each month features one of us, slightly bare, with a pet we have adopted for our own! The proceeds from our calendars will go into our Animals In Need Fund.
No, you're not seeing double. There is more than one group calling their calendar "Bare Because We Care."

Thursday, August 18, 2011

North Otago Rugby Union

Nude, boozy fundraiser causes concern - oddstuff | Stuff.co.nzThe Alcohol Advisory Council has expressed concern about a calendar featuring nude North Otago rugby players surrounded by Speight's beer as a fundraiser for junior rugby.
The calendars, which are a first for the North Otago Rugby Union, are selling for $20 each and have been on sale for a month with 1000 distributed.
See also the Timaru Herald. It can be ordered from the North Otago Rugby Union.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Whitby Bin Men

Whitby Gazette | Naked binmen raise £2,000 for good cause
The 12 workers from Scarborough Borough Council’s waste and recycling departments stripped off last year with just pieces of recyling equipment hiding their modesty.
...The cheque for £2033.60 was handed over to the two charities that will benefit from the money – Yorkshire Air Ambulance and Help for Heroes.
I'm not finding any hint that the calendars were ever available via mail or web order, only from local merchants. But read more at Forces Pen Pals, Scarborough Council and Real Whitby Magazine. Or just search for "Whitby Ben Men calendar". And congratulations to all involved!

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The car wash that wasn't

Hunky calendar boys banned from Epsom insist they are real firemen (From Your Local Guardian)
First the Fire Brigade's poster boys were banned from doing a charity car wash, then questions were asked about whether they were even real firefighters.
To add insult to injury, the people appearing to question their bona-fides were fellow fire fighters from Epsom fire station.
There's no mention of the calendar itself, which I suppose is either too late (for 2011) or too early (for 2012). But I'm guessing that when it's available, it'll be mentioned at the Fire Fighters Charity page.

Friday, August 05, 2011

Au Naturel, Too

Calendar for a cause - Country Messenger
The 18-month calendar showcases many of the well-known Scandia and Marine on St. Croix [MN] residents posing nearly-nude behind the items of their trade.

Professional photographer Verna Pitts and her business partner, graphic artist Jeni O'Brien, masterminded the project. The two were inspired by the movie "Calendar Girls," in which members of a ladies' social club pose nude for a fundraiser calendar.

As the "Too" in the name suggestions, the 2011-2012 calendar is the second of its kind. Pitts and O'Brien produced the first calendar in 2006, which also featured residents of Scandia and Marine nearly-nude, to raise funds for Jenna Lynn, a teen from Scandia who was battling a rare form of bone cancer. Jenna died in 2008 at 18.

Jenna's parents, Jeff and Jan Lynn, posed for the latest edition of the calendar. Jan said the original calendar helped pay for cancer treatments and improved the quality of life for her daughter. With a second calendar in the works, the two said they were honored to be on its pages as a way to give back to those who had given to them.

"We needed to be in there for somebody else," Jan Lynn said. "It's for a good cause and it brings the two communities together."
Now, six years after the first calendar, the towns again came together to create a calendar, this time for Toni Poletes, an owner of Ostlund's Marine Garage. Poletes, 52, has metastatic breast cancer and is struggling to pay medical bills after her insurance notified her she maxed out her coverage in March.
$30. Buy it here.

Thursday, August 04, 2011

New Bern NC

Women, 70 and up, pose nude for charity - WCTI New Bern
The first calendar came out in 2008, this is the second installment.
"That was going to be the one and only one we did. Well here I sit. Got talked into doing it again and we just had the best time," Fawcett said.
Profits from the $15 calendars will go to two local charities: M.E.R.C.I. Clinic and Religious Community Services.
I haven't found a way to order it.

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Dr. Showmore

In celebration of the 250 year history of the profession of veterinary medicine, The Center for Integrative Veterinary Care [Hopkinton, MA] has produced an educational calendar for 2011 called Dr. ShowMore. Each month depicts a different modality or procedure. The proceeds will support student scholarships and the filming of Dr.DoMore. The calendar is done in the theme of the Movie "Calendar Girls" and both animals and humans are "au natural."
$10. Buy it here.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Pin-up for Heroes


The idea was simple: To create a calendar recreating the stylish pinup girls of the 1940’s and 50’s using a mixture of professional and amateur models, with all services being given for free and all proceeds going straight to Help For Heroes. The calendar would be stylish, glamorous and tasteful, appealing to all, young and old, male and female.
The 2011 Calendar raised over £4,000 for Help for Heroes. Apparently there are still limited quantities available at Pin-up for Heroes. And there are links to the first edition in 2010.

This group won't be producing a 2012 edition, but see Cheeky Calendar Girls.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Maureen Fanning Hospice calendar


A woman who stripped off to raise funds for the hospice that cared for her dying husband has spoken of her pride as she handed the centre £3,000.
Marion Muirhead posed in the nude with her family and friends for a charity calendar in memory of her husband Ian.
He died of cancer in July, after being cared for at the Maureen Fanning Hospice in Ayrshire for two years.
His 90 year-old mother, May, also appears in the calendar, which has sold around 400 copies.
See the Press Association (article mirrored in Herald Scotland, Kilkenny People and many other places). I can't find any way to actually buy the thing on the web.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Zander Calendar


A group of 12 mothers from Sunderland have stripped naked and posed for a calendar to raise funds for an eight-year-old boy with cancer.
The young boy was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma in March – a disease which affects less than 60 children in the UK each year.
This is simply breathtaking.

Read more: Mothers strip off for cancer boy in Zander Calendar | Metro.co.uk. £10 (£13 including postage) at 2011 Zander Calendar.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Friends of Julia Koper


Julia was born with a mysterious genetic disorder which left her both physically and mentally disabled requiring her to use a special NF-Walker frame to help her stay upright, but the price is beyond her parents’ means.
“Of course, we could have made a calendar with flowers and butterflies in it, but nudity sells so we decided to overcome our embarrassment in order to help her.”
I'll say they did. The images in this calendar are more explicit than the average garden club charity calendar. They also set a high standard of professionalism: These pictures are unapologetically beautiful. I wish I could tell you how to order one, but so far I haven't found any way to order them.

New Poland Express. See also AllVoices, Croatian Times, Journalism Without Borders.

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Puppy Love


A charity calendar has upset animal lovers and vets alike after it featured racy images of scantily-clad women in bizarre poses with dogs that they say suggested bestiality.

The 2011 Puppy Love calendar is intended to raise money for an animal rescue charity in Wicklow, Ireland.

...The photographs have caused quite a stir, especially when for the month of March 22-year-old Polish model Agata Dembiecka is shown holding a small dog at her naked breast. [Sify news.]

Well, a quick look at the photographer's page reveals (ahem) that the image isn't out of character. For the record, I don't disapprove. On the other hand, I realize it isn't everyone's cup of tea, so if you want to see it, you're going to have to click through. (This calendar doesn't precisely fit this site's mission, since the models are professional models. I don't care.)

€12.00 from Puppy Love

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Potters Bar Hockey Club

A WOMEN’S hockey club has made Potters Bar, Potters Bare, with a nude charity calendar.

The girls from Potters Bar Hockey Club, described as “seven of the club’s most athletic players”, have stripped off in aid of Help for Heroes, and to help finance a new clubhouse.
£10 (plus postage) from Potters Bar Hockey Club: Here's a direct link to their Shop. (Welwyn Hatfield Times)