FEMALE staff at Zenith Vehicle Contracts have been shedding their clothes in the name of charity.

A total of 15 girls posed for a 2006 calendar, to raise money for motor industry charity BEN.

The charity is celebrating its centenary and hopes to raise £3 million by the new year. Zenith chief executive Andrew Cope said: ‘I was a bit surprised when the girls said they wanted to do this calendar, but I think they have done a fantastic job which will certainly raise a lot of money for BEN and may well make it easier for us to recruit in the future.’

Copies of the calendar are available for £10 each from www.zenith.co.uk.

Andrew Cope with Miss January (account administrator Katie Orange) and the two Miss Aprils (account administrator Julie Hall, left, and funding clerk Catherine Emmott)