A BROTHER and sister have come together to thank their loyal customers with a special gift for the new year.

Ulverston agricultural contractor Stephen Gelderd and his sister Clare, a professional photographer, have been working hard to produce a 2019 A3 calendar as a token of thank you for the festive season.

Mr Gelderd has been running his business, Gelderd Contracting, around the South Lakeland area for five years now and has helped with forage crops and manure spreading.

With more than 50 clients to thank the pair have produced the calendar with photographs representing some of Mr Gelderd's machinery over the various seasons.

"The difficulty of producing this calendar has been arranging with Clare at short notice to photograph a wide variety of work which I undertake, as we both have busy business schedules,"said Mr Gelderd.

Clare has high hopes that the clients will taken the calendars as a token of appreciation from the business.

"We are hoping our efforts to produce these calendars are appreciated and we aim to continue to create them year on year, as our businesses develop further," she said.