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After noticing a "girlie" calendar in a local mechanic's shop, she hits upon an idea to raise funds to buy a new sofa. She proposes producing a calendar featuring members of the Knapely branch of the Women's Institute discreetly posing nude while engaged in traditional WI activities, such as baking and knitting.
- $10 million
- 2 September 2003
- Suzanne Mackie, Nick Barton
- Patrick Doyle
Jul 14, 2018 · The story of the WI ladies who decided to strip off for a risqué charity calendar is being told in a new exhibition. Twenty Years Of The Calendar Girls tells the story of the Women's Institute in ...
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She hits upon the idea of printing a calendar featuring some of the members of the Knapely branch of the Women's Institute, discreetly posing nude while engaged in traditional WI activities, such as baking and knitting, in order to raise funds. Her proposal is initially met with great scepticism, but she eventually convinces ten women to ...
- Tim Firth
- Gary Barlow
- Gary Barlow, Tim Firth
— Steve Mappley. In the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England, Annie Clarke (Dame Julie Walters) has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia.
Apr 30, 2024 · Sold Date. Source eBay UK. CALENDAR GIRLS: THE ORIGINAL 2000 ALTERNATIVE WI CALENDAR The original calendar from the Rylstone and District ladies woman's institute "CALENDAR GIRLS". This is the calendar that the film and stage play is all about - the "ALTERNATIVE WI" calendar from 2000. The calendar is in very good condition for its age and ...
A sensible ambition from a WI in a village deep in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The calendar appeared in 1999 and by the end of the year had raised £300,000. A film (2003). a play (2009) and a musical (2015) later and the amount raised for Blood Cancer UK is north of £5 million, which is an awful lot of sofas.
Source eBay UK. THE original Alternative WI Calendar for 2000 which inspired the Calendar girl film with Helen Mirren and a multitude of copycat calendars afterwards. This is one of the original calendars from the first print run - not many of these around now.
