# Holly, Ivy and friends

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/07/09/holly-ivy-and-friends/
- Published: 1999-07-09T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Earlier this year a group of Women’s Institute members gained much newspaper coverage
for selling a charity calendar which featured them all naked.**

They have now launched a Christmas card which they hope will raise even more for
Leukaemia Research. Not surprisingly, this card features 11 of the members of the
Rylstone and District WI in North Yorkshire wearing nothing more than Santa hats,
pearl necklaces, and smiles.

So far 33,000 copies of the calendar have been sold in four months, raising £400,000
for the charity.

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Read UK Fundraising’s report on the [Real Yorkshire Millennium Man Calendar](https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/09/24/more-cheeky-fundraising/)
and CBS’ follow-up report on 25 January 2000.