Ealing Broadway has opened a free Preloved School Uniform Shop to help families find those essential school clothing items over the Easter holidays ahead of the new term.
The shopping centre received more than 1,300 donations of good quality school items to its dedicated donation box from the local community. The items include branded and
non-branded core school uniform, sportswear, footwear and school bags.
The free and welcoming pop up will run daily until Saturday 13th
April, from 10am – 4pm, while stocks last, with visitors invited to browse and choose up to four items to help prepare their children for going back to school.
The initiative follows the centre’s first pre-loved uniform shop event last summer, where nearly 3,000 local families donated 10,242 pre-loved school items. Over ten days,
2.27 tonnes of clothing were prevented from going to landfill, and any damaged items added to the Love Not Landfill clothes bank for recycling.
Andrew Rollings, centre director at Ealing Broadway, said:
“The volume of donations we’ve had from the local community has been incredible, with hundreds of families getting involved. It’s brilliant to see everyone coming together to help those who need it most, all while preventing items going to landfill unnecessarily.
“We look forward to welcoming families to the pop-up during this week to pick up what they need ahead of the new school term.”
Councillor Kamaljit Nagpal, Ealing Council’s cabinet member for a fairer start, said:
“School uniform can be costly if you have one school-age child, and for families who have more than one the costs just go up and up.
“The free school uniform shop was so popular last year, and I thank Ealing Broadway for continuing with organising and hosting this shop – I know that parents, carers,
grandparents and others really appreciate the help this provides at this time.”
