So
here we are at long last, ready to launch the project! Common Goals has been
well over a year in the making, and we're so excited to finally get things well
and truly underway! It's hard to believe that we've come from Jack's
initial idea, to work with the punk rock community to raise awareness and money
for charitable causes, to the stage where we are ready to do just that!
This
coming Saturday (2nd June) Common Goals will be launching at No Guts No Glory's Handmade Arcade. The Indie Art Market will take
place all day outside the No Guts No Glory Shop in Exeter's McCoys
Arcade! Be sure to check out their Facebook event page for more
info about the day!
So
what is Common Goals? Well, the aim of the project is to raise money and
awareness for a range of charities though 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! Check out the designs below:
Massive
thanks to The Arteries and Great Cynics for getting involved in our project -
we were totally blown away by both designs! As well as all of this, the shirts are to be closely followed by our next design by Exeter DIY punk stalwarts The Cut Ups.
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!
It
is really important to us that Common Goals becomes a sustainable and ongoing
charitable enterprise. We hope to help as many charities as we can over the next couple
of years, and are starting as we mean to go on.
So
Saturday 2nd June sees Common Goals launch at HANDMADE ARCADE, before travelling up to
Lincoln for Crash Doubt Fest on Sunday and then returning to Exeter on Monday
to set up shop at the punk all-dayer in the Cavern! As well as the Common Goals
T-Shirts, we'll also have our own Common Goals Zines, Badges and Stickers with
us, so whatever fun times you have in store for this bank-holiday weekend make
sure you include a visit to our stall!
The opportunity to snap up one of our hand screenprinted shirts doesn't end there either! Our online store will open the following weekend (Saturday 9th June) so if you can't make any of our launch dates then don’t worry as you can still buy all of the shirts from the comfort of your own home :)
We're so happy to have
made it to this stage, and would like to say a massive THANK YOU to all of the
lovely people who have helped us get to this point…..
Katy Christianson for
screenprinting our first batch of shirts. They look amazing! We were saddened
to hear that Katy is putting the screenprinting on hold to focus on her
illustration work, but before we even had to time to panic about our future
prints, the legendary GET A GRIP came to the rescue. We are very excited to be
working with Sam and will be posting some more information about him and his
shirts soon.
Tom Cross for turning
all of our rough sketches and notes into beautiful designs for our flyers and
posters.
Lastly we would like to
give a massive thanks to Jack’s brother Tom who was kind enough to help fund
the project. It is safe to say that without this Common Goals would not have
been possible. Cheers bro!
See you real soon,
Jack Hyde & Nathan Blaker
See you real soon,
Jack Hyde & Nathan Blaker