Can I take a moment to address a question that keeps on coming up about why we do what we do.
People ask why we make no profit but make donations and even give things away for free.
My answer is simple.
Why not?
#ItsNiceToBeNice
My son Ryan, who happens to be autistic, has started enjoying producing art.
I asked him if he could do one for one of my favourite people,
@mrjamesob
and he created this for me.
I hope James gets to see it as Ryan would be very pleased.
Never underestimate where a simple act of kindness can lead
@mrjamesob
was so kind about my autistic son Ryan's artwork of him
Since then Ryan's raised hundreds of £'s for good causes
Overnight his
@HairyBikers
piece has gone viral
Thank you James
I'm incredibly proud of my Son, Ryan and the artwork he creates.
He happens to be autistic and self-taught.
And thank's to the wonderful
@mrjamesob
@theousherwood
and others for supporting what he does in support of
@TrussellTrust
**BREAKING NEWS***
For today ALL monies raised from our
@Depheruk
products will go to James and the team.
If you spend £10 they will receive a donation for. £10
If you spend £100 they will receive a donation for £100.
RT's will help us raise more.
Another from Ryan's back catalogue, Mr
@eddiemarsan
Ryan is autistic and he only allows us to sell his work if ALL profits go to
@TrussellTrust
Of course Eddie is also on our
#mensh
roll of honour.
2 of my favourite people, and ladies who are found on our
#mensh
Roll Of Honour.
@KathyBurke
with
@carolvorders
on Kathy's Where There's A Will podcast.
Lovey stuff.
Art by my autistic son, Ryan
@JasonManford
Hi Jason, my autistic son (and fellow City fan) Ryan has created this of you.
He does these artworks in support of
@TrussellTrust
- I hope you like it :-)
I've just listened to the
@ChrisGPackham
episode of Full Disclosure with
@mrjamesob
He's one of my favourite people and my son Ryan, who is also autistic, created this for him some time ago.
Chris is definitely a
#Mensch
isn't he James
Since Ryan's artwork has gained a few admirers after generous words from
@mrjamesob
,
@idriselba
,
@eddiemarsan
and others I have been contacted by other autistic artists asking to partner with them too.
The answer is YES,YES,YES!
Please get in touch.
Former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen has praised the NHS on its 75th anniversary.
He spoke about being in an induced coma for 40 days with Covid and told
#BBCBreakfast
the poem he wrote for the 60th anniversary is still relevant today
@mrjamesob
Morning James, i'm pulling all of Ryan's artwork together here - - to raise as much as we can for
@TrussellTrust
There are going to be some familiar faces there too :-)
My fav' is
@eddiemarsan
RTs and Likes raise money for
@TrussellTrust
After a great week of sales in support of the foodbanks in Hartlepool and Boro let's have a nice weekend supporting James and the team at
@Depheruk
Any chance of a cheeky RT
@HackedOffHugh
? 😉
@Sillyshib
@mrjamesob
Ryan has just received a similar request. He would love to do that but only if people agree to make a donation to
@TrussellTrust
if they like what he creates. :-)
In the spirit of Xmas we are going to be sending about one hundred of these in A4 format to
#SWFC
fans through the
@swfcsc
We hope it helps bring some light relief during these difficult times.
@Reverend_Makers
;-)
The new and improved
@mrjamesob
mugs now take the print all the way to the edges.
So you get even more James with your brew!
And every one sold raises an incredible £5 for
@TrussellTrust
Designed by my autistic son Ryan :-)
@Clarabel09
@mrjamesob
I certainly am. My advice to anyone with kids is let them try as many things as you can, you never know what they will enjoy and/or excel at :-)
***prize draw**
If you want to win the very first
@Depheruk
'Athletic' t-shirt the. RT this and follow Depher
A prize winner will be drawn when we reach 50 RTs
A further winner for each 50 RTs if we get there 👍
This image of 7 pairs of
@mrjamesob
coasters represents
A. 7 orders of these
B. Via the donation to
@TrussellTrust
7 (SEVEN) families fed for a WEEK
c.
@nigel_farage
's fever dream.
@Depheruk
James, if we were to source some new but clearance items from our clothing suppliers would you be able to use them?
I am thinking of families who cannot afford to buy things like t-shirts or hoodies, especially for kids.
Drop me a line with your thoughts - Andy M
Thank you all for helping us raise over £100 for
@Depheruk
in the last 18 hours.
If we could don that every day then it would mean £36,500 to help them do their wonderful work.
Here's the link again for anyone who is tempted :-)
For those asking what the
@mrjamesob
artwork by Ryan looks like on different colours here are the snaps of it on black, red and light blue.
All in aid of
@TrussellTrust
of course.
For those asking we still have our wonderful
@mrjamesob
tshirts available.
ALL profits go to
@TrussellTrust
with a minimum of £10 donated from each one sold
@jonsopel
@mrjamesob
Lying ailing in a darkened room, unable to move from vertigo and nausea. Out of hours GP goes to listen to my chest and sees the T shirt I had grabbed to wear as nightie. "Is that
@mrjamesob
? Have you read his book??"
T shirtAdvertising works
@ClubMerchandise
Perhaps I let the excitement of
@mrjamesob
's likes and RT get to me but we printed up 25 of these but have only sold 1.
If we sold all we would raise £250 for
@TrussellTrust
🤞
Lots of
@mrjamesob
products are being delivered
It would be great to see the members of the tofu eating wokerati showing off their purchases made in support of the incredible
@TrussellTrust
To celebrate
@Depheruk
being honoured with The British Citizen Award ( BCA ) on the 29th June at Westminster Palace ALL monies raised from sales of our Depher merchandise for the next week will be donated to James and the team.
@mrjamesob
Morning James, an interesting observation for you.
65% of the products we have sold with your face on in support of
@TrussellTrust
have been made in the North West of England.
It seems you have a face the North West find irresistible 😉
@mrjamesob
A busy few days means we have raised another £50 for
@TrussellTrust
from your gorgeous fizzog - that's over £200 now !!!
James, thank you for being a good sport.
Next stop t-shirts ;-)
We are getting about 250 visits to the products page for
@Depheruk
each day.
It's great that so many are interested enough to have a peak.
But sadly most days, like today there are no sales.
We offer free UK delivery but if there is something else we can do please let us know.
*** NEW PARTNER ANNOUNCEMENT ***
We are really pleased to have gone live with the first products in support of our new partners, the truly remarkable
@Depheruk
James and his team are wonderful and we are so happy to have been able to partner with them
Only three more left and
@mrjamesob
willl have 25 people wandering the streets with his head on their chests.
And each one raises lots of much needed money for
@TrussellTrust
To mark our application to become a CIC we have set ourselves some targets for 2023.
We want to raise £5,000 for
@Depheruk
this year.
We've had some supply issues and a quiet start this but we are close to our first £100 being sent over for Jan/Feb
The first batch of our gloriously lovely tempered glass
#beatles
coasters in support of
@Depheruk
are now in the post.
You can buy your set of four for only £10 including delivery and a donation to James and the team >
@PaulMcCartney
@ringostarrmusic
It's Friday and we would love those who asked for
@Depheruk
pin badges to break our duck and pre-order some.
If you're looking for a mug or a t-shirt we have them being printed on a daily basis.
Thanks for looking and spreading the word 👍
We price our products so that YOU can raise funds with very little risk
10 mugs for only £25 inc delivery allows enables the smallest of clubs/associations to raise much needed funds.
To get a similar price elsewhere you would have to order over 5000!
Imagine how proud you will be to drink from a
@Depheruk
mug or wear a
@Depheruk
t-shirt!
A warm and toasty feeling is a few clicks away.
From 300 visits today we secured one sale.
Thank you for looking and for those who can afford to buy ❤️
*** BREAKING NEWS ***
@Boro
fans,
Keep your eyes peeled for the auction of a couple of VERY special Club Merchandise t-shirts.
They are something you definitely wont be able to find anywhere else.
A quick reminder that we produce merchandise on behalf of
@Depheruk
But from now until Xmas we are forwarding ALL PROFITS to them from those sales.
Let's raise as much as we can to help them carry on doing the great work they do.
Can anyone who knows
@michaelsheen
ask him if he would be willing to sign the number 1 print of 25 of this artwork.
It would be a great thing to auction for
@TrussellTrust
We didn't quite make it to a £100.00 pound donation from the
#Beatles
coasters but we have just sent over £95.00 in support of James and the team at
@Depheruk
Thank you for buying.
Here's the link to the full range of things we support
@Depheruk
with
We have a few samples that we printed up that we would like to sell and raise a bit of cash for a good cause.
Here's some
@Depheruk
stacker mugs.
£20 including postage if anyone is interested?
@ProperMala
@mrjamesob
It's therapeutic for him i think. So he's enjoying teaching himself these things. I'm glad of that as if he were to ask me for help he would be somewhat disappointed ;-)
If 1% of
@jeremycorbyn
's supporters were to buy a t-shirt in support of
@Depheruk
We would generate nearly £400,000 for that great cause.
That would be real socialism in action.
And we would have to find more volunteers too 🤔😆
@Depheruk
@westminsterhub
Hi, were pulling things back together after a COVID disaster for us with a necessary shutdown.
I'm back in the saddle as best as I can be and we are working through the backlog.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the lack of communication as we were all the place.
With the arrival of colder weather we thought you might want the chance to wear a hoodie in support of
@Depheruk
James and the team.
( If you have an outstanding order pease DM us here and we will deal with it as a matter of urgency )
@HackedOffHugh
Well the numbers from yesterday's tweet about Ryan's
@mrjamesob
art are crazy!
Thank you all for your kind words and the few people who have asked for commissions and agreed to Ryan's request that any 'payment' is a donation to
@TrussellTrust
The tweet has already raised £50
We've launched a NEW
@Depheruk
CIC cap.
ALL monies raised from the sale of the first 50 hats will be donated to Depher.
Can we sell all 50 and raise £500 for them?
@HackedOffHugh
@lilyallen
If there are any designers who would like to create images we can print in support of good causes like
@Depheruk
then please get in touch we would love to team up and help raise cash for those that need it.
I hope the hoodies are keeping you and the team warm
@Depheruk
and that the cups and coasters are useful.
Keep doing what you do folks, you are saving people's lives
#Legends
Our first delivery of clothing destined for
@Depheruk
arrive today.
We have committed to buying from clearance lines from
@btcactivewear
and forwarding them to James and the team to help those who may need help.
This wont impact the donations we raise.
We've found some mouse mats and thought perhaps doing this to them would be another good way of helping the NHS?
Maybe £6.00 each, all money to the NHS.
Thoughts
@LeeDixon2
@9smudge
@IanWright0
?
I am genuinely staggered by the phenomenal work that the team at
@Depheruk
put in for others.
They are led from the front by the epitome of selflessness in James.