Category Archives: Charities

Promotional T-Shirts

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Promotional t-shirts are often an inexpensive t shirt printed with a logo or slogan. They are normally used in promotions, campaigns and giveaways where they are only going to be required for a limited amount of time.

When are promotional t shirts used?

  • Campaigns such as elections, protest marches.
  • Fundraising, to be sold, given out for people to wear when fundraising
  • Promotional events, exhibitions, pop ups in retail outlets
Charity Promotional T Shirts

Campaigns

Promotional clothing is a great way to get a look of solidarity, to show that you all believe in the same cause or idea. This is often represented in sport when fans wear their team’s colours. People who are campaigning for something such as a change in the law or policy.

Fundraising

Again the matched clothing gives an idea of all being in it together, if you are doing a sponsored activity it gives you a team appearance and also promotes the cause to onlookers. Often large charities will give out a fundraising pack to people who sign up to a sponsored activity.

Promotional events

This is all about brand awareness, getting your colours and logos out there to the buyers.  Giving out free clothing means that your brand is being promoted by your customers and may even create a feeling of fear of missing out. A great example of brands with a recognisable colour and logo are Coke or Cadburys.

Garment Decoration

Promotional t-shirts are normally screen printed, this is a cost effective way to print a huge quantity quickly.

If you are looking for a supply of promotional t-shirts you can contact us for a quote, we will just need an image of your artwork, the quantity you are looking to order and a Pantone code or colour you would like for your t-shirts.

Christian Aid

Charities, Organisations Wearing Fairtrade

Christian Aid

Another new customer to be proud of.  We have been working with Christian Aid and supplied them with Fairtrade cotton hoodies and Fairtrade and organic T shirts.

  All in bright red.

If you click on their logo above and look at their web site you will see all the wonderful work that they do.

The great thing about the organisations we work with, they may have different faiths, or live with slightly different approaches, but they all strive to care for others and our planet.  I have also found another reason to love building this business……..the customers are a pleasure to deal with.  They are interested, patient and warm.  Oh happy days.

Wearing our Fairtrade & organic polo shirt

Here we have a Christian Aid worker wearing one of the polo shirts which we have embroidered with their logo.

Salvation Army New Customer

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Salvation Army Fairtrade T shirts

More great news. It just seems to keep coming at the moment!  Lisa has been working away with the Salvation Army on a project they have and they placed their order yesterday.  We are supplying them with Fairtrade cotton t shirts and I am really pleased, of course,  that they decided to use Cotton Roots.

Offering Fairtrade garments is a niche business but one I find really fascinating and fulfilling.  The Salvation Army are a growing band of new customers from the charity sector that are keen to use ethically sourced clothing.  On a personal note my grandmother Maud Smith who ran the public houses “The Lion” and “The Royal Oak” in Abertillery from around 1925 – 1965 would have been pleased.  The Salvation Army often came to the pubs and she made them very welcome.  It was tough times for the miners and their families in the valleys of South Wales and the Salvation Army did lots of supportive work.  So my Grandmother, although  a publican, really respected them and especially asked for them at her own funeral, a fitting tribute of mutual respect.  She was a business woman, family woman, strong woman and I think she would have been proud of us supplying the Salvation Army – so it gives me an added thrill.  Fairtrade T shirts, my Gran, and the Sally Army, a good combination.

Global Poverty Project

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We were proud to sponsor Global Poverty Project for the launch at St Paul’s Cathedral to churches across the UK. They had an audience of 800 which we think is a wonderful achievement. Well done!

They were  joined by the Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander, the  Archbishop of York John Setanmu and TV presenter Denise Robertson.

Here they are wearing their Fairtrade T shirts and taking part in the Global Poverty Project “Tug of War”.

Look at their web site to find out more about the work they do http://globalpovertyproject.com/blog/