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My final post of 2021. Here’s wishing everyone a happy and safe New Year’s celebration. I’ll be home on my couch with wonder pups Scarlett and Brody and a glass of champagne hours before midnight. Continue reading “News Round-Up: December 31, 2021”
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The Warwick Rowers are celebrating 10 years of their world-famous calendars featuring the UK athletes in the all-together for charity.
The calendars are not only tasteful eye-candy, but help to raise awareness for different charities.
From the Rowers’ website:
The Warwick Rowers project is a social enterprise and gay/straight alliance that dates back to 2009, when our first calendar was launched.
Producer Angus Malcolm and generations of male rowers at the University of Warwick Boat Club have since achieved global recognition through a fundraising initiative and public awareness campaign that delivers a range of products to around 80 countries every year and reaches more than 140 countries through its viral messaging.
The team has won a large number of awards for excellence, innovation and social impact, including twice being voted the UK Charity Calendar of the Year.
One of the charities designated for funds from the calendar is Sports Allies, which promotes sport, and especially team sport, as an inclusive and supportive route to personal growth for everyone. We are particularly keen to promote team sport for people who are excluded on the grounds of gender or sexuality.
Check out the video below and then head over to the Warwick Rowers website to buy here.
Without warning, the Instagram account of the uber-popular Warwick Rowers disappeared from the social media platform.
The rowing club of athletic lads from Warwickshire in the UK has produced a cheeky calendar since 2009.
Proceeds from the calendar benefit the Rowers’ outreach program, Sport Allies, which works to eliminate homophobia in sports through education and support of young LGBT athletes.
The team tweeted yesterday that the Instagram account had been ‘deactivated’ without warning. “We’re hoping this is a mistake and are waiting for them to allow us back on the platform to keep spreading our message,” wrote the rowers.
As you may have noticed, our @instagram account has been permanently deactivated without any reason communicated to us. We’re hoping this is a mistake and are waiting for them to allow us back on the platform to keep spreading our message @outmagazine https://t.co/9cAcyd5miT— Warwick Rowers (@warwick_rowers) June 18, 2018
Before the account was deleted the athletes had amassed over 180,000 followers on the social media platform.
The Warwick Rowers have appealed the suspension multiple times to Instagram.
The rowers and Instagram have a long history of disagreeing on the content guidelines for the photo-sharing platform.
Instagram’s content guidelines state that they will remove images of “sexual intercourse, genitals, and close-ups of fully-nude buttocks.”
The vast majority of the Warwick Rowers content conforms to those guidelines.
Here’s a promotional video for their 2016 calendar.
UPDATE: Just hours after news of the deletion from Instagram, the Warwick Rowers’ account is back.
The guys posted the below photo with the caption, “Back on IG got us like: woop woop #bunsout.”
Perfect for Hump Day – the Warwick Rowers are back in fundraising mode for Sport Allies and awareness against Homophobia.
Since 2009, the Warwick Rowers calendar has achieved global recognition as a fundraising initiative and a public awareness campaign, delivering products to around 80 countries every year and reaching more than 140 countries through its viral messaging.
It has won a large number of awards for excellence, innovation and social impact, including twice being voted the UK Charity Calendar of the Year.
The men of Warwick name three goals for their fundraising activities:
• to promote positive, inclusive and respectful attitudes towards people of all genders and sexualities
• to fund the rowing programme at the University of Warwick, and particularly to make rowing more accessible to a wider number of students
• to fund the ongoing development of Sport Allies, a registered charity with a mission to promote sport, and particularly team sport, as an inclusive and supportive route to personal growth for everyone
Check out the promo video for the fund-raiser below, and head over to www.warwickrowers.org for more info.
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We need more diversions, and just in time come the Warwick Rowers with a preview of their 2017 Calendar.
The Warwick Rowers project has long been one of the world’s most eye-catching straight ally projects, and its serious influence continues to grow. Sport Allies, the charity they have set up and continue to fund, has now become a registered charity. It has caught the attention of top UK politicians and is about to launch an in depth academic report on homophobia and gender inequality.
All profits from Warwick Rowers sales go to recognised charities and the calendar itself uses nudity to make a serious point about the need for a more inclusive culture in sport towards people who tend to be marginalised on the grounds of sexuality or gender.
More info about the Warwick Rowers and how to buy your 2017 Calendar, click here.
The world’s most famous naked athletes, the Warwick Rowers, are back with their seventh calendar for 2016.
Take a peek behind the scenes at our naked photo shoots on glamorous locations in England and Spain, while we explain why the calendar means so much to us and why we are working to challenge homophobia in sport.
And visit us at warwickrowers.org, where you will be able to find our calendar, bonus downloads, films, book, posters, prints and a whole lot more! It’s for everyone.
One of the most popular posts on The Randy Report each year is the release of the Warwick Rowers calendar, where the athletes bare it all in support for Sport Allies, a programme to reach out to young people challenged by bullying, homophobia or low self-esteem.
From the men of the Warwick Rowers:
Every summer we come up with great deals and unique offers that make it possible for us to cover our production costs and get the best value from our suppliers, so that as much money as possible can go to good causes.
This year, we have created more and better content than ever before! Our crowdfunder gives you great deals on our best calendar ever, our hottest films to date and a coffee table book that is our most daring venture yet! Plus you can get all of our existing content at unbeatable prices.
You can help the lads out at their crowdfunding page here, and catch a little teaser below.
The Warwick Rowers 2015 calendar welcomes February.
If you don’t have the hunky athletes new calendar, there’s still 11 months to enjoy. And the proceeds go to help Sport Allies, a program to reach out to young people challenged by bullying, homophobia or low self-esteem.
Check out the guys and the calendar here.
Five members of the Warwick Rowers serenade you with Christmas carols (in their underwear) and explain the history of their best-selling calendar.
So, you may not tune in for the carols but the vision (and view) of the calendar can’t be beat.
Purchase their 2015 calendar and support their cause through Sport Allies – a program that reaches out to young people challenged by bullying, homophobia or low self-esteem in the sports world.