A DORSET butchers has dared to bare all for a charity calendar to celebrate a milestone and raise £10,000.

The Full Meaty is a humorous 12-page calendar that will feature staff at created by AW Andrews Butchers in Verwood using various meat and festive props to hide their private areas.

The calendar will serve as the final charitable event for Marcus Stock, a nine-year tradition created by a Dorset couple.

So far, Marcus Stock has raised £6,737 for various charities over the years including Lewis Manning Hospice Care.

(Image: Helen Branagan-Liddy)

Helen Branagan-Liddy is the driving force behind the private events and charitable cause.

She said: “Marcus Stock began nine years ago after losing nine family members to various cancers over the years.

“Four of them spent their last weeks in Christchurch hospice so we wanted to say thank you to the staff by raising £400 through an auction that began with just a box of chocolates and then each year, the fundraising grew bigger and bigger.”

Helen added: “2025 will be our last Marcus Stock so with that in mind I wanted to do something special. If I'm going to smash the £10,000 target, I need to pull something big out the bag here.

“Inspired by the Full Monty and Calendar Girls, I was eager to combine the two.

“I persuaded my two amazing bosses Mark and Martin who own AW Andrews Butchers and the lovely staff past and present to take part in a naked calendar shoot, which is called The Full Meaty.

“The calendar looks great; us girls have just got Christmas crackers hiding our bits and bobs and we’ve got some big daddy burgers for the Father’s Day page.

“We already have over 150 pre orders.

“I'm just so touched by all the support we've had over the years and what the butchers have done is remarkable.”

All proceeds from the sale of the calendars will go towards children’s charity, Amelia's Rainbow, in memory of Helen’s auntie Joan who always said before her passing to ‘always look out for the rainbow’.

The calendar will be able to purchase by the end of October and available to purchase in AW Andrews butchers in Verwood or by emailing helenb734@googlemail.com.