A NAKED calendar has been made by friends and relatives of the former Worcester schoolgirl who drowned in New Zealand.

It is now being sold to raise money for the Emily Jordan Foundation, which was set up in her memory after she died in April.

Miss Jordan’s father Chris, who lives at Trimpley, near Bewdley, said: “Her peers got together and wanted to do something different so decided to do it, there were 60 of them involved.

“It’s the boys’ turn next year.”

As previously reported in your Worcester News, Miss Jordan died while riverboarding on the Kawarau river in New Zealand’s south island.

The 21-year-old former Alice Ottley School (now RGSAO) pupil was travelling with her boyfriend after graduating from Swansea University with a first class degree in law.

Since her death, the foundation has raised £30,000 and plans to buy a unit to help adults with learning difficulties.

“It is going to be an operation to build bird boxes and hedgehog boxes and sell them,” Mr Jordan said. “We will put cameras in so people can see the eggs hatching.

“It means these individuals are training for work and at the same time producing things which can be sold.”

The charity Spokes, which collects discarded bicycles and turns them into cheap first bikes, will also relocate from Kidderminster to the unit.

The foundation is holding several events next year including a bike ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats.

They are inviting people to collect sponsorship and join them during the ride, which will hopefully start on Good Friday. “We want to make it fun and a big money raiser,” Mr Jordan said.

Calendars cost £10 and can be bought from the foundation’s website theemilyjordanfoundation.org.