Amicus Hunks Calendar

Yes thats right, we are doing a Amicus Hunks Charity Calendar this year in aid of Motor Nerone Disease (www.euanmacdonaldcentre.com), which was set-up by the inspirational Euan MacDonald and his father, Donald. I recently visited the centre for the official opening and were moved and motivated by the caring close knit community of all who have been affected by motor neourone disease. My father passed away from motor neurone disease when i was 12 years old and helping raise money to find a cure for this horrible disease and support the families of those who have the disease, has always been a focus for myself, my sister, mum and uncle. My mum has done some tremendous fund raising in the past including her yearly cook books and i feel fortunate now to be in a position where i can do my bit to raise awareness and hopefully make a difference.

Through having Amicus Apple, I have been fortunate enough to meet some wonderful people in the MND Community and in particular the MacDonald family, Chloe Kippen from Edinburgh University and Iain McWhirter from MND Scotland to name a few. All the staff at Amicus have been tremendous in supporting my past fundraising activities such as our ladies night and a close friend, Joni Mackay, did an amazing job at last years Edinburgh Charity Fashion Show, which raised an unbelievable £67,000 for three different charities including MND.

BUT NOW ONTO THIS YEAR!

I told the Amicus boys just over a month before the photoshoot that we were going to be doing a topless calendar this year for charity. I was greeted by a general consensus of slight anxiousness and annoyance that I had only given them just over one months notice. I gave everyone the option of not doing the calendar but everyone was up for it and excited in a slightly cringible and we are going to get a lot of slagging for this kind of way.

I then told them we were kindly being helped out by a few of the Scotland Rugby team and a personal trainer friend, Olly Foster. The slight annoyance then maybe grew a bit stronger and I was met with a mutter of "My month better not be beside them!" and a few wandering eyes checking themselves out and in their heads I could hear them saying "sh*t i better join a gym and put that pint down!"

The shoot is taking place on the week commencing Monday 23rd. I dont want to say the actual date in case we cant control the huge crowds flocking to Amicus to get a glimpse of the buff bar boys ;-) The wonderfully talented Susie Lowe (www.susielowe.co.uk) has given us her services for free for the shoot and David Peters from Red Dress Creative (http://reddresscreative.com) will be doing the design.