Wearing it
Gear, at cost.
Students asked for something to wear on a delivery, and people who have given us an instrument have asked for one too. So there is gear. There is no profit in it, and that is deliberate.
Where the money goes
Not to us. A printing company makes the shirt, sells you the shirt, ships the shirt and keeps what you paid. We hand them the artwork. No cut, no commission, no markup added on our side, and nothing for anybody here to hold or account for.
That is the same arrangement as everything else we do. We have never taken money and we are not going to start over a hat.
Which also means this is not a donation, it does not fund anything, and there is no tax receipt — we are not a registered charity. If you want to actually move the work along, buy an instrument for a child or give one you already own. Those do something. A sweatshirt is a sweatshirt.
What there is
- T-shirts
- Sweatshirts
- Jackets
- Hats
- Backpacks
All of it carries the mark and nothing else — no slogan, no year, no list of sponsors. A student wearing one at a residence should read as somebody who turned up, not as an advertisement.
Not open yet
The artwork is done; the printer is not chosen. We would rather set it up once, properly, than put up a store nobody can order from.
Tell us what you would actually wear and we will write to you when it opens. If you print this sort of thing for a living, we would especially like to hear from you — the whole thing hinges on finding somebody who will do it at their normal price and not ask us for a cut we would refuse anyway.
Using the mark
Students may put the mark on their own gear — a school club shirt, a hoodie for a team. Ask first, and we will send you the artwork rather than have it traced off a screenshot. What nobody may do is sell anything carrying it, or use it in a way that suggests we endorse something we have never seen.