FEARLESS students at The University of Salford students have stripped off to raise money for charity.
Salford Receive and Give (RAG) teamed up with local charity Henshaws Society for Blind People to raise vital funds for the charity’s pioneering work with local blind and visually impaired people.
Members of the university’s numerous clubs and societies braved the cold to get snapped with strategically placed items covering their modesty.
Now in its third year, it is the first time that Salford Students Stripped has been produced in partnership with a charity.
Henshaws community fundraiser James Lester said: "We are delighted to be working with Salford RAG on this year’s calendar. It’s certainly a creative way to raise money – and we hope it turns people on to Henshaws fantastic work."
Each calendar doubles up as two – with a boys side and a girls side.
The calendar is priced at £5.99 with all proceeds going to Henshaws. If you would like to buy a copy, please contact James Lester, Community Fundraiser on 0161 786 3661 or james.lester@henshaws.org.uk.
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Richard Carvath (12/01/2009 at 12:06)
sheikh, prattle and droll (12/01/2009 at 12:51)
Richard Carvath (12/01/2009 at 14:44)
(1) How many calenders were printed?
(2) How many have been sold so far?
(3) What's the demography of the purchasers?
(4) How much money per calender sale actually goes to Henshaws?
I'd be interested to know because this information isn't in the original article in the Salford Advertiser.
P.S. On the subject of helping blind and visually impaired people... One charitable thing I get involved with is providing voluntary home cleaning to blind people (not least because public sector 'providers' of such services so often exploit the vulnerability of blind people and do a very poor job). I've yet to meet a blind person who appreciates the naked netballers' woefully misguided attempts at fund-raising [though I do not believe fund-raising was their primary motive for their actions], but I do know that blind people would appreciate the netball girls doing some voluntary domestic cleaning. If as they claim their motives are pure, perhaps the netballers will seriously consider doing some regular voluntary cleaning - or other vital (and true) charitable work?
Richard Carvath (12/01/2009 at 18:02)
I know a blind woman (who also has mild learning difficulties) and I told her about this story, read out the comments here and described the netballers' photo to her. She isn't physically able to submit her own comment here, so she asked me if I would submit the following comment on her behalf. [What follows are exactly her words - not mine.]
"I'm so upset to hear about this. I can't believe these girls can be so silly. I was born blind and when I was a little girl I was in a home and I was abused by a paedophile and when it was court the Judge said how bad the man was who had a lot of pornography who did nasty things to me. Please hope the girls won't do this pornography again. Not in my name."
sheikh, prattle and droll (12/01/2009 at 20:37)
Wandering Minstrel (08/06/2010 at 19:46)
Seriously, get a life people. They are just naked. Rape and sexual assault are not crimes that are caused by the display of nude photos.
Glenn Croad (26/08/2010 at 01:23)
This is nudity. We were born naked. It has NOTHING to do with ANY form of sexual abuse. Most abused people were clothed before it happened.
This is NOT pornography - it is nothing like it. This is a group of students (several in fact as other societies were involved in the calendar) having tasteful photos of them in their NATURAL STATE. If you don't like nature, go live in a man-made tank with no airholes as clearly air is part of nature. This was done to help a charity - something I am sure the people who made the idiotic and hateful comments would know very little about. Why don't you all go to Afghanistan or some other repressive country and live there? Then you can force women to hide their faces too, so you'd probably love it.
And well done to the girls and guys who took part in the calendar.