The women hope to raise about �1,000

The fundraising effort urges women to make an imprint of their breasts on a plate and turn it into a creative item.

The scheme is the brainchild of Cambridge shop owner Yvonne Odell, 37, and business partner Penny Dullam, 40.

The idea was born by a desire to raise the profile of breast awareness month and turned into a cash raising venture.

The pair hope to raise about �1,000 which they will donate to Cancer Research and the London-based charity Breast Cancer Haven.

The business partners started by making their own personal imprinted plates and hanging them in the shop window of Glaze to Amaze - their paint your own ceramic shop.

They then took the idea a stage further by encouraging other women to do the same - all in the name of charity.

We expected them all to look like eyes of one sort or another but it does rather depend on how well endowed you are Yvonne Odell

"Usually we just get children in who want their hands and feet painted on a plate but occasionally we get hen parties who think it's a giggle to do their breasts," said Ms Odell.

"We thought: 'hang on, this could actually be a constructive and appropriate way of raising money for charity'."

The friends' breasts were used to create the black eyes of pandas and the original plates are still displayed proudly in the shop window.

"We did ours black because we thought they would look striking and they came out looking like a pair of panda eyes," she said.

"We expected them all to look like eyes of one sort or another but it does rather depend on how well endowed you are," she said.

Each plate costs between �12 and �15 - of which �1 goes to charity up until 24 October.

And if someone is too shy to bare all, they can choose to imprint another part of their anatomy on their plate.