Barrow charity shop selling school uniforms for £5

St Mary's Hospice is selling school uniforms from the different schools around South Cumbria Multi Academy Trust for an affordable price.

They are now selling various items of school uniforms that have been donated by parents either to the schools or directly to their biggest shop in Portland Walk in Barrow for £5.

Caroline Welch, Head of Retail and Hospitality, explained that whilst each school has a repository of school uniforms they only can give access to parents to come and buy them at a very limited time of the day or always during the day not at weekends.

School uniforms available at the shop in Barrow (Image: Submitted) A high number of people have been interested in the uniforms, with Caroline saying parents have been buying them 'by the armfuls'.

"Particularly if they have got two kids at the same school they are able to kit them all out without absolutely breaking the bank," she said.

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"We have seen a big interest in it and on social media. Because we really heard lovely stories about how much this has given to the parents we are going to run it all year round.

"We are not only saving the planet through sustainability we are helping out parents that just haven't got the cash to spend £140 on a Chetwynde blazer and we are bringing new people in who are spending money in our shop and the money goes straight to St Mary's so it is a win-win all round.

"We have had a lady who was in tears but also I was chatting to a parent in our Dalton shop about the Barrow shop scheme and what she was saying was it is not also just about the money it is also about recognising because kids grow so fast that is not helping the planet," she concluded.