Gutsy City traders to strip for cancer relief

LONDON (Reuters) - City traders are set to raise eyebrows by posing for a nude calendar to raise money for a cancer charity.

The calendar will feature 12 people posing naked but with their modesty preserved, the KatCanDo charity for colon cancer told Reuters.

KatCanDo, which was set up by Kate Coles in 2004, is still looking for more people to fill the slots.

"It's a very serious attempt to raise money," said Stephen Coles, the husband of the charity's founder. "It will be tastefully done."

Kate Coles was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2003 and died in March 2006.

But some traders -- a breed not renowned for being shy and retiring -- were bashful.

"I think I give the world enough amusement without taking my clothes off," said one London-based dealer.

Nude calendars of ordinary people with strategically placed objects covering their modesty has become a popular way of raising money.

The phenomenon reached a wider audience with the film Calendar Girls, which was based on the true story of Women's Institute members who posed nude for a naughty charity calendar to raise money for leukaemia research.

The project follows a similar calendar in 2005 that featured hospital doctors and which sold around 5,000 copies, raising several thousand pounds to buy equipment and facilities not normally provided by the NHS.

KatCanDo added that donations can also be made through its website, www.katcando.org.uk

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