Show your support for Movember

Printing Your Design

Screen printing. Best price per Movember shirt at volume, most durable, setup per colour. Best above about fifty shirts.

DTF transfer. Detailed and funny novelty joke artwork, no setup, right for a small Movember shirt order.

Embroidery. Polo shirts and caps rather than a tee, and reads as more expensive than the price suggests.

Personalised names on the back, a sponsored logo on the sleeve, a grandpa's name on the chest: each adds to the unit price and nothing to the lead time, if confirmed with the shirt order. Download our template, or send a logo and our design team will redraw it. We keep your brand file and personalised artwork on record, so next year's Movember shirt order is a single email, and brand colours are matched from a reference you supply. A great design reprinted unchanged costs less the second time.

Sizes run from XS to 6XL in mens, womens and unisex shirt fits, and kids sizes are available on most tee shirt styles. A family event, a school or a club with a junior section can order the same design across every size in one order at the same price break.

Ordering for a Team

Collect sizes in writing with a deadline. Most teams split evenly and end up with unworn small shirts and no large.

A usable curve: five per cent small, twenty per cent medium, thirty per cent large, twenty-five per cent XL, fifteen per cent 2XL, five per cent above. Order a few spare shirts in the middle sizes.

A usable size curve for a mixed UK workplace: five per cent small, twenty per cent medium, thirty per cent large, twenty-five per cent XL, fifteen per cent 2XL, five per cent above. Adjust once you have real numbers, and keep spare shirts in the middle sizes because someone always forgets to reply.

A mens shirt and a womens shirt in the same size are not the same garment. Collect fit as well as size, in writing, with a deadline. A spreadsheet beats a thread.

Decide who pays. A company that buys the shirts and asks staff to sponsor a moustache raises more than one that asks people to buy a shirt and donate. The shirt stops being a purchase and becomes a reason to give.

Count what you sold before you count what you raised. Teams that know how many shirts sold, at what price and what margin, plan the following year in ten minutes. Publish the results: teams that publish results raise more the next November, and the results give next year's team a target. And order a spare shirt as a gift for whoever organised it, because nobody ever asks.

If stock sold out mid-month, tell us early. We can usually help with an alternative blank in the same colour and size rather than a reprint you did not budget for.

Shirt Terms

GSM. Grams per square metre, the weight of the cotton. 150 gsm is a summer tee, 180 gsm the year-round shirt, 200 gsm and above a heavyweight.
Ring-spun cotton. A finer, smoother yarn takes print more cleanly and feels softer than carded cotton.
Ribbed neck. A neck knitted with elastane so the shirt recovers its shape. The clearest difference between a cheap tee and one that still looks right in March.
Unisex fit. A straight cut shirt sized for most people, the default on a team order. A women's shirt is shaped rather than smaller.
Blank. An unprinted shirt. Every printed Movember shirt starts as a blank, and the blank decides how the finished shirt feels.

What Actually Is Movember?

Movember is the men's health campaign that runs each November. People grow a moustache, take on a distance, or organise an event, and use the attention to raise money and start conversations.

It began in Melbourne in 2003, when thirty friends grew moustaches for a month. The name joins mo, Australian slang for moustache, to the month. The Movember Foundation, a registered charity, now runs it worldwide and funds work on prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention. Around three in four suicides in the UK are men.

Most people take part for someone: a dad, a brother, a colleague, a grandpa. A sponsored moustache, a sponsored walk or a sponsored shave is easier to ask for than a donation, and a month of visible commitment is easier to sponsor than a form. Teams that print a grandpa's or a dad's name on the shirt raise more than teams that print a slogan, because nobody has to explain the commitment.

Men present later and ask fewer questions than women, and men die younger almost everywhere. The barrier is rarely the treatment. It is the first sentence. A moustache provokes a question; a shirt keeps provoking it after the moustache has gone, worn by someone who answers in their own words. That is the case for a Movember shirt: it puts a conversation starter on the chest of someone who already cares.

Where the money goes is worth knowing before you ask colleagues for it. Movember funds biomedical research into the two cancers, and a large share goes to work on how men actually behave: how men seek help, what stops them, and which interventions change the odds. Training the people men do talk to, coaches, barbers, colleagues, tends to outperform campaigns aimed at men directly.

The commitment that counts is not the sponsorship total. It is whether one man books an appointment in December who would not have booked one otherwise, and nobody ever reports that number.

Register with the Movember Foundation directly for the team page, the fundraising platform and official products. We supply the shirts and nothing else.

How Teams Take Part

Four formats cover almost everyone. Grow a moustache for the month. Commit to a distance across the thirty days. Organise an event: a quiz, a breakfast, a shave-off. Or set a personal challenge and ask for sponsored donations.

Workplaces usually combine two: a team growing moustaches, matching Movember shirts to make it visible, and one event at the end to close the fundraising.

Three things separate the teams that raise money from the ones that meant to. Register in October. Get the shirts before the month starts, because a team that waits until the middle has lost half the visibility it paid for. Ask for sponsorship once, early, then let the moustaches do the asking.

After November

The shirts do not stop working on the first of December. A Movember shirt is worn through the winter by people who were asked about it in November, and the questions keep coming from anyone who missed the moustache.

Sell what is left rather than boxing it. Teams that sold their remaining shirts in December raised noticeably more than teams that stored them, and unsold stock in the wrong sizes is worth less every year.

Keep the small and large ends of the size run in stock for next November. New starters join between campaigns, and a spare shirt in a common size is the cheapest way to bring someone into the team on day one.