Much Wenlock young farmers get kit off for charity

Young farmers in Shropshire have bared all for a racy calendar to raise hundreds of pounds for charity.

A dozen members of Much Wenlock's Young Farmers Club, aged between 18 and 21, featured in the calendar which went on sale in December last year.

Since then sales have helped raise nearly £500 for Help for Heroes, who were presented with a cheque by the farmers, fully-clothed, this week.

The idea for the calendar came from Rebecca Drakeford, 20, from Much Wenlock.

It features members of the club naked while carrying out various everyday activities on a Shropshire farm, including mucking out, fixing the engine on a 4x4 and lugging hay in a tractor.

Miss Drakeford said 50 calendars had been snapped up in all and the fund had been boosted by a local "muck lug" where bags of manure from Manor Farm in Stanton Long were sold.

"We thought it would be great fun to do this calendar and, after seeing the fantastic work of Help For Heroes, we all felt that the money we have raised would really make a difference," she said.

Members of the young farmers' group presented the cheque to Ian Sawers, the Shropshire co-ordinator for Help For Heroes, at a club meeting at Harley Village Hall.

Speaking afterwards, Mr Sawers said: "It is wonderful to see young people get behind the charity and I am delighted to have accepted this cheque on behalf of Help For Heroes.