by Rebecca Hughes

The naked truth about life at a local pub has been revealed as punters peeled off their clothes for a charity calendar.

Chatham-based heavyweight boxer Tom Dallas joined 11 other regulars from The Ship Inn in Gillingham in stripping off to support two local causes.

The 2013 calendar features individual pictures of the
punters using carefully places pints, a golf club, boxing gloves, a mop and more to protect their modesty.

Normally the pub raises money by tackling on the football pitch, but after a pint one night the idea of a charity calendar involving a different type of tackle was born, according to landlady Angie
Parfett.

Angie, whose husband John features as Mr January, said "We didn’t really think it would ever happen, but suddenly I’m serving tea and coffee to them during the photoshoot and everyone was up for it and it was just brilliant.

"They all brought along props, including our cleaner Michael McLoughlin who posed with a mop, and Tom Dallas with his boxing gloves posed for December – he’s definitely my favourite month."

The punters, who paid for the calendar out of their own pockets, are hoping to raise £4,000 for their chosen charities, The Wisdom Hospice and The Oliver Fisher Special Baby Care Unit, by Christmas.

So far they have sold 400 copies raising £3,000.

Angie added: "We were really pleased with the final result. It was only a bit of fun for charity, but we are really chuffed.

"People have been buying them as Christmas presents and their reaction to it has been about how funny it is.

"We are hoping to sell them all, but if not they’ll make a bonfire in November," she joked.

The calendars cost £5 each and are available from the pub in Court Lodge Road, Gillingham, or from the Wisdom Hospice, Rochester.