Fun fact: Kids grow!

It’s December 2020 and like every good Brummie I’m staying home and saving lives!  😁

While home schooling my daughter in her PJs for most of the year, I realised she had already outgrown most of her school uniform she never got to wear. 

School uniforms are a requirement not a choice and one thing we can be sure of is that kids grow out of them very fast.

I started thinking about what people do with this stuff? It’s been widely reported that a staggering 1.4 million school uniform items are getting binned every year! How have we only just noticed?

We educate our kids on the importance of sustainable living but there has been a blindspot when it comes to recycling school uniforms, a commodity with an arguably unparalleled cycle of supply and demand.

Many items are made from non-biodegradable fabrics which is great, if like me.. you want to avoid the iron but not so great for our environment.

With rising prices of school uniforms against a backdrop of a cost of living crisis, post-brexit and a post pandemic apocalypse …What have we been doing?! 🤷🏻‍♀️
The highly publicised ‘The Wrong Blazer‘ report asked exactly that in 2020, creating an impetus for change. There have been improvements in social policy alongside a push towards recycling school uniforms. However, with businesses, charities and schools all running their own initiatives, it’s become a bit of a patchwork quilt, with little consistency between schools.

Schuniforms only purpose is to help parents turn their preloved school uniform into cash, easily, in their own neighbourhoods. No travelling anywhere, no gimmicks for future discounts … just straight forward parent to parent buying and selling.