Look ahead! Male university rowing club go completely naked for their raunchiest ever charity calendar



Calendar features 14 members of Warwick University Rowing Society all aged between 18 and 21

The black and white images - the group's fifth charity calendar - feature the buff boys frolicking by the River Avon



Team are hoping to repeat 2012 success which saw calendar sell out in days with orders coming from 40 countries

Funds from the calendar and other products will go towards Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH)

Behind-the-scenes video captures the energy and camaraderie of the sporting group




A male university rowing club is raising cash for an anti-homophobia charity - by posing naked in a camp tongue-in-cheek calendar.

The buff students from Warwick University Rowing Society ditched their life jackets to strip nude for the artistic photo shoot.

Featuring 14 members of the upmarket university's rowing club, the men - aged between 18 and 21 - can be seen frolicking by the River Avon and at in their boat house in Barford, Warks.



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AUGUST: Calendar organiser Laurie Hulse said: 'Getting naked wasn't a problem really, we're all good friends,'

The team are hoping to repeat on last year’s naked calendar which saw it sold out in days with orders coming from over 40 countries.



The hunky rowers have already built up an impressive celebrity fan base including Stephen Fry, John Barrowman, Boy George, Gok Wan and Derren Brown.



And this year the muscular athletes have decided to use their calendar to raise money for a charity which challenges homophobic bullying in schools.



Funds from the calendar and other products will go towards Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH).



The registered charity is working with the rowers to develop a programme called Sport Allies that will see them going into schools and making viral videos.



They aim to help encourage young people who are being bullied about their sexual identity to call a national helpline and speak out about the abuse they suffer.

OCTOBER (l) and NOVEMBER (r): This year the muscle-bound athletes have decided to use their calendar to raise money for a charity which challenges homophobic bullying in schools



Rower Laurie added: 'Supporters wrote in to us explaining their experiences of homophobia and why the stance we were taking meant so much.



'This has motivated us to set up Sport Allies, Our very own outreach programme in partnership with EACH. We hope one day Sport Allies can become a charity itself.'

Director of EACH, Jonathan Charlesworth, said: “There can be a reluctance among males to be seen to be too bonded to their male friends in any emotional or physical way.

'The Warwick Rowers use tongue-in-cheek videos and photographs to challenge this, and in doing so I think they are taking constructive and positive stand against homophobia. We are proud to be the partner agency working with them.'

Former Warwick rower, two-time Olympian and World medallist Tom Solesbury, also applauded the team for tackling bullying and homophobia in schools.

He said: 'I rowed for Warwick, and am delighted to see my old club doing such great work for charity and for young people.

'I think what they’re doing is very brave. I’ve faced many challenges in my Olympic career, but I have to take my hat off to the boys for this.'

London-based photographer Angus Malcolm, who has shot all five of the rowers’ calendars, added: 'This year I’ve aimed to create a lot more captured moments that show who the boys really are and how relaxed they are around each other.

'It’s very much part of the message we want to get across. And I hope they look good, too.'

The £9.99 calendar - along with a film, a series of image downloads, and a range of greeting cards - is available now from warwickrowers.org