A stunning calendar capturing images of local women doing yoga poses in the buff on Colwick Lake has raised £1,900 for a Nottingham charity.
Twenty women from Nottinghamshire’s TeamSUP (Stand-Up Paddleboarding) group stripped off and took to Colwick Lake on their paddleboards during a freezing cold Sunday morning back in October.
They were then tastefully photographed by local snapper Debbie Whitmore while carrying out nude yoga poses on their paddleboards – which were then featured in the charity calendar released late last year.
Money raised from sales of the calendar has now been donated to Hyson Green-based charity Open House, which supports women who have suffered mental health issues after the birth of their children.
The charity was set up in 2012 by three local mums who needed support after child-birth and couldn’t find it.
Stand-Up Paddleboarding – has become hugely popular in Nottingham after Mapperley-based Cassie Salter introduced the sport to the city back in 2015.
She now runs weekly classes in paddleboarding and SUP yoga on Colwick Lake, Beeston Canal and regularly hosts adventure paddles along the Trent.
Cassie said she hoped the calendar would boost the confidence of local women.
She said: “I am passionate about the health and wellbeing of women: all women are unique, beautiful and important and I want to empower and encourage women to be what they want to be and to see themselves as equal, worthy and special.”
For more information about supporting the charity or becoming involved with Team SUP contact Cassie by email: cassiepaxton@supfitness.co.uk or visit the website: http://www.supfitness.co.uk
