By Brian Haran

brian.haran@essnmedia.co.uk

Bare-faced cheek and naked ambition look like producing a money-spinner for Warlingham Football Club.

Players and backroom staff have put aside their dignity and embarrassment to pose for a fund-raising calendar.

Mark Burns, secretary for Warlingham FC colts' team, was the driving force behind the calendar.

He was even prepared to bare his own buttocks for October's shot.

About 400 varied shots were taken over a long afternoon at the football club's Church Lane base.

And all were snapped indoors to spare the stripped-off models the winter chill.

The calendar's photographer Lorna Hosford - who also posed in one month's picture - said: "Many of them were a bit shy at first, and several guys were reluctant because their girlfriends or wives were around.

"But once they were convinced they were doing it for a good cause, they were only-too-keen to get involved."

A photography student at Reigate College, the 17-year-old added: "I'd never done anything like this before but it was great fun.

"I was more used to doing still-life photography, taking pictures of things like flowers."

Barmaid Elaine Tester is 44 and a mother-of-four but she was prepared to put her assets to good effect when she lined up for April's shot brandishing a pair of footballs.

Mrs Tester of Shelton Avenue, Warlingham, said: "It was a bit of a laugh really.

" At one stage they got us to throw our footballs up into the air but I think we three girls were showing too much so they didn't use that shot."

Her daughter Kirsty, a back-up barmaid at the club, appears in two photos, lining up for the camerawoman in little more than a football top in one shot.

Kirsty said: "I've done a bit of catwalk modelling before - but nothing like this."

The calendars, which cost £7.50, can be purchased directly from the sports club, and they are also on sale at newsagents in Warlingham and Hamsey Green.