A DOZEN charities and good causes are each set to receive a bonus worth at least £425 thanks to a group of Porlock beauties who bared all to boost their funds.

The village's 2014 version of a Calendar Girls-style fundraiser marked its success last Saturday with an evening celebration to tot up the financial tally.

A total of 1,000 copies of the Exmoor Belles calendar were produced, featuring a wealth of discretely naked shots following in the footsteps of a Yorkshire Women's Institute branch.

And the efforts of the models and the team of organisers behind the initiative were rewarded with the project bringing in at least £5,100 profit.

Friends and supporters, as well as a number of Royal Marines from 40 Commando - one of the charities to benefit - raised a glass at the celebration event at the Lorna Doone Hotel.

"We want to thank everyone for any part they played in this project," said Kelly Creech, who came up with the idea and took the photographs.

"We raised £220 on the celebration evening and we will now start paying the cheques to the 12 charities."

In addition to 40 Commando, the other organisations set to benefit include the Children's Hospice South West, Friends of Porlock Visitor Centre, Willow Whippet Rescue, the RNLI, CLOWNS, Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Badger Trust, Cancer Research, Bliss neonatal unit, Royal Devon and Exeter breast cancer and Musgrove Park Hospital's children's assessment unit.

l Marines and models - from the left, at the back, Louise Prideaux, Katy Brown, June Partridge, Kelly Creech, Tom Banfield, Anne Shaw, Sandra Griffiths and Mags Cooper, in the centre Lis Lewis, and at the front, Corporal Devs de Villiers, Chris Perkins, Dan Hance and Kath Prideaux.