International Women's Day: new Camden Town football kit celebrates inspirational women

100 per cent of proceeds will be donated to The Fawcett Society

With International Women’s Day approaching, a London brewery and football team have joined forces to celebrate the achievements of women on and off the pitch.

To mark the occasion this year, Camden Town Brewery has created what it claims is the “world’s first football kit/work of art”, to be worn by local ladies’ side Camden Town FC.

The shirts – handpainted by the brewery’s seasonal design collaborator Bodil Jane – honour some of the inspirational women who have lived in and been influenced by the north London borough.

Camden alumni featured on the kit include the authors Sylvia Plath and Buchi Emechata OBE, modernist sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth and suffragist Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE.

Andre Amaral, marketing director at Camden Town Brewery, said: “The Women of Camden kit reflects the creativity, diversity and inclusivity that has drawn people from all over the world to the borough for generations.

“It is inspired by the women of Camden’s past, for the women who live, work and play in Camden today.”

The kit will be available to buy from Camden Town Brewery’s bar later in March, with all proceeds going to The Fawcett Society.

In the meantime the brewery will donate its bar profits from today until Sunday 10 March to the charity.

Camden Town Football Club manager Pranay Dhanani said: “We are all about artistry and unity on the pitch, and supporting each other off the pitch.

“To play with the likes of Sylvia Plath and Millicent Fawcett on the team’s shirts, gives us that extra piece of inspiration and motivation, and makes us even prouder to represent Camden.”

Jane, who created the illustrations for the project, added that it “reinvents the conventions of what a football kit can look like and its meaning to those who wear it”.

Camden Town FC play competitively in the Greater London Women’s Football League.

You can find out more about the movement for equality at fawcettsociety.org.uk.