AFTER raising more than £1,000, a Windermere businesswoman has fulfilled her charity pledge of releasing a full-length pole dancing video.

Janett Walker, who co-runs PR and events company Flock, will be giving £1,150 to the Cumbria Community Foundation.

After teasing the video on social media, the pole dancing enthusiast promised she would release the full routine if donations topped £1,000 by November 5.

"The reaction to the video has been really good," Janett said. "People have really loved the video."

Janett has been pole dancing for the past five years and one of the aims of the video was to raise awareness of 'both sides' of pole dancing.

As well as working at Flock, she is a qualified lawyer and works as the legal advisor on the board of trustees for NUM (National Ugly Mugs).

NUM is a charity founded to help sex workers easily share and identify potentially dangerous or violent individuals.

“I have been doing pole dancing for exercise for nearly five years, it’s fantastic fun, keeps me fit and I enjoy it," she said. "I am aware however that I have the privilege to pole dance out of choice, but there are some women out there who do so not because they want to but because they have to."

She said that she felt that by launching the fundraiser and releasing the video, she had raised awareness around pole dancing.

"I think it did. A lot of people realised it's an exercise that requires a lot of strength, a lot of energy," she said.

During her fundraising efforts pole dancing was officially recognised by the Global Association of International Sports Federation and was granted 'observer status' - meaning that it is provisionally recognised as a sport.

Sophia Newton, who works alongside Janett at Flock told the Gazette that it was 'her turn' next and had plans to organiser her own elaborate charitable event next year.