We like a good cause here at Punktastic and the lovely lads at Common Goals have come up with a damn good one. They are selling lines of t-shirts designed by the best in British Punk bands, raising lots of money for charities. The two up first are by GREAT CYNICS and THE ARTERIES. But we’ll let Common Goals explain their plan themselves:
“Common Goals is a not-for-profit project setup by Nathan Blaker and Jack Hyde in Exeter, Devon. The aim of the project is to raise money and awareness for a range of charities through the sell of hand printed Organic T-Shirts that are designed exclusively for Common Goals by UK based Punk Rock bands!
Our first batch of shirts are brought to you courtesy of The Arteries and Great Cynics, raising money for both Mumbles Lifeboat Station in Swansea (The Arteries home town!) and the Motor Neurone Disease Association. Common Goals are also launching our own logo design – of which all proceeds will go towards printing the shirts of the next band!
So how does it work? We sell each of these awesome T-shirts for £15, donating 100% of all proceeds directly to the charity nominated by each particular band! So thats £10 from each sale to charity, and £5 to pay for us to reprint the design. The T-Shirts aren’t limited (although we may decide to mix up the colours sometimes), so we can continue to raise as much money as we can for the selected charities! With the Common Goals own logo shirt we again take £5 to cover the cost of the shirt & printing but the remaining £10 goes towards paying for the printing of the next band design. So once we sell enough of these we can ask a new band to design a shirt for us. Simple.”
For more details and to pick up a shirt for yourself check out the Common Goals shop: www.common-goals.co.uk.