Cool for School Campaign
What is Cool for School?
School uniforms can prove costly for growing families and often parents need support with uniform which is essential for their child to attend school and fit in with their peers.


How does it work?
A family may have moved into new schools and a new area at short notice due to them fleeing domestic violence; children may have outgrown their school uniform just before the end of term and finances make it difficult to buy a full new uniform and P~E kit at that moment in time - there are many scenarios why families need our help with school uniform.
Families across Shropshire donate preloved uniforms to our donation points. Schools and organisations can refer families to us to provide what they need if we have the sizes in stock.
In specific circumstances, we may use charity funds to buy new uniforms for families and of course, this helps the planet as fewer uniforms are thrown away.

Our Impact
We know children can feel uncomfortable when they don’t have the right uniform or they don’t fit them correctly. Cool for School helps children fit in with their peers and removes one of the possible barriers of them attending school.
Frequently Asked Questions
We do not receive any Government funding and rely solely on your generous donations and fundraising in aid of us.
Your help through volunteering, monetary donations, or pre-loved items from our wish list is imperative for us to continue supporting families across Shropshire.
We support all of Shropshire.
Our pre-loved school uniform donation points are within the following Tesco stores - Shrewsbury, Ellesmere, Whitchurch, and Ludlow.
Not at this time as we do not want to provide pre-loved shoes as all children walk very differently and by supplying pre-loved could be doing more harm than good. This will be relooked at as we understand this is also a high cost for parents.
They go to families in need. We work in partnership with schools across Shropshire but there are also other organisations who have our information and can refer to us.
This may not be a need for the younger years but could be for secondary school pupils. We will aim to provide them along with school bags.