Barely believable

Howard Lake | 4 April 2000 | News

The Rylstone and District Women’s Institute’s famous fundraising nude calendar was launched a year ago. Since then they have sold 90,000 calendars, 50,000 Christmas cards, and raised £340,000 for the Leukaemia Research Fund. As this year’s calendar is published, there’s even talk of a Hollywood movie.

Read The Full Mandy by Sally Weale at The Guardian.

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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.