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Plans for a "nude family swimming session" at a Midlands water park have sparked furious protests this week.

A naturist organisation is to take over a water park for a naked swimming event to try to make nudity acceptable.

Adults and children of all ages are invited to strip off, bare all and dive in at Waterworld in Stoke-on-Trent.

Based at Festival Park, Waterworld attracts 400,000 visitors per year.

The nudist event in Stoke-on-Trent on April 13 is being organised by British Naturism to make "social nudity acceptable."

Men, women and children of all ages are invited to enjoy the venue's activities in nothing but their own ski.

British Naturism has organised the naked dip - but far right activists from Britain First have been out in the city centre handing out flyers urging people to email Waterworld to object to the event.

They are also backing a separate online petition calling for it to be banned, StokeonTrentLive reports .

The flyer states: “Waterworld in Stoke-on-Trent plans to host a naked swimming event for adults and children of all ages.

“Organised by British Naturism it will be open to non-members.

“We believe such events are a potential risk to children and should be banned.”

Speaking to StokeonTrentLive, Britain First’s election officer, George Whale, said: “We heard about this event going on at Waterworld. It is organised by British Naturism, but when we found out that members and non members are allowed, as far as we can tell with no background checks, we thought that there is a possible risk to children.

“There’s a petition online and we are encouraging people to sign that and to write a letter to Waterworld.

“We are not saying naturists are bad people, I’m sure they are well intentioned, but we think there is a safety issue.

“We are getting involved because we have members in Stoke-on-Trent and it is an issue people are concerned about.”

The online petition calling for naturist events to be banned, ‘where children are involved’ has so far been signed by more than 4,000 people.

The petition says: “This is a massive safeguarding issue, children being naked around adults neither their parents or themselves know.”

Waterworld doesn’t advertise the nude swimming event as the entire venue is rented out by British Naturism, which takes charge of the organising.

Around 300 people are expected to attend on Saturday, April 13.

Another event will be held at Waterworld in September.

Based in Northampton and founded in 1964, British Naturism is the UK’s internationally recognised organisation for naturism.

Its Facebook group says it 'exists to unite and support naturists, to protect naturist places and provide more, make social nudity more acceptable across the UK'.