Fundraisers for a leukaemia charity are hoping people will make a date with their new calendar.

Shirley Taylor and friends, who started raising money for the Annette Fox Leukaemia Research Fund after a pal, Josie Buckley, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in November 2010, have smashed the £30,000 mark with money-making schemes and now hope people will rush out and buy their new calendar in time for the New Year.

Mrs Taylor, who works in Bradford RoyaI Infirmary's coffee shop, has already been selling the calendars at a special pop-up store in the hospital foyer with the help of Mr Fox – the charity's mascot who also stars on every page of it posing at various Bradford district landmarks including Valley Parade and the Cow and Calf Rocks at Ilkley.

MrsTaylor said: “We’ve done the cheeky ‘he’ calendars and the cheeky ‘she’ ones – now it's Mr Fox's turn, not so cheeky but still posing!"

The charity was established by the parents and friends of Annette Fox, a Bradford girl who died of leukaemia in 1980 aged 17, and is administered through the Ward Seven at BRI.

The calendars are available on (01274) 364168 or e-mail: shirley.taylor@hotmail.co.uk