Overview
A group of extraordinary women, members of a very ordinary Yorkshire Women's Institute, spark a global phenomenon by persuading one another to pose for a charity calendar with a difference! A very British story, with a very British heart, Calendar Girls is based on an inspiring true story that is quirky, poignant and hilarious.
The fundraising phenomenon of the Calendar Girls was inspired by the death of Angela Baker's husband John Richard Baker, an Assistant National Park Officer for the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, who died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 54 in 1998. During his illness Angela's friends began to raise money, initially with the aim of purchasing a sofa for the visitors lounge in the hospital where John was treated. Nothing could have prepared them for the way their original calendar took off. To date they have raised over £2 million for Leukaemia Research, the UK's leading blood cancer charity.
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