Boxers in the buff to help children's charity (From The Oxford Times)

Boxers in the buff to help children's charity

11:00am Wednesday 28th December 2011 in Didcot

South Moreton Boxing Club made sure the photos were discreetly staged when its fighters posed for a calendar being sold in aid of a children’s charity

WHITE collar boxers who work out at a club near Didcot lost their shirts for these steamy shots.

South Moreton Boxing Club made sure the photos were discreetly staged when its fighters posed for a calendar being sold in aid of a children’s charity.

It costs £10 and could raise £5,000 for the Footsteps Foundation, which supports disabled children who use a specialist centre in Dorchester.

Boxers posed for the risqué calendar and organised a fight night in the Wantage nightclub Shush to raise funds.

The South Moreton club is a “white collar” boxing club, a term coined in New York in the 1980s, that offers boxing training regimes and sparring as a form of fitness.

The photographer for the charity shoot was gym member Christian Sinkinson, 31, above, who runs More Than Images studio in Wallingford.

He appears in April and said: “This is a good cause and the calendar is selling like hot cakes.”

The Footsteps Foundation provides intensive physiotherapy to disabled children from across the country and aims to raise £150,000 a year.