Cardiff uniform bank hopes to help struggling families
Boomerang Cardiff and its community outreach pif have helped people around Cardiff for years, and with more and more families struggling, their school uniform bank here, and so many all across Cardiff and wales have been pushed in recent years. Emmajayne hopes that those families get the help they need, and often expensive school uniform doesn’t get in anyone’s way.
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00:00Yeah, we just want people not to have to worry about uniform, you know, and kids grow so
00:05fast that half the time they're in great condition and why bin them? Why send them to landfill?
00:11So not only are we saving landfill, we're saving the parents money having to buy something
00:16and giving it a purpose, a reuse, you know? So yeah, we're hoping we get some more. It's
00:21always there throughout the year. We always have at least one rail in the centre throughout
00:25the year, but in the summer it just duplicates because of how much we get donated, so.
00:30Emma Jane says the charity have helped plenty of people so far this summer and wants to
00:35welcome anyone who needs help with uniform to come along and see what they have. Boomerang
00:40and Pass It Forward say that anyone is welcome to donate or collect kids' uniform.
00:44Since the summer holidays, we've gone into five rails and obviously just before we started
00:50speaking a lady just turned up for her Willow's Blazer. So, you know, £35 people are trying
00:54to pay for things. That saved her £35. That's like a week's shop, you know, she can support
00:59her family. So, yeah, we've been really lucky. We've had loads of organisations, like, sending
01:02loads of brand new items. So we're asking for a pound donation if people can, but we
01:08would never turn anyone away. So all the pre-loved items, everything else is completely free.
01:14The summer holidays are exciting, but at the end of the six weeks, inevitably comes the
01:17time to buy the kids' uniform. It seems to be getting more and more expensive every year.
01:22Some schools require blazers, which can be as much as £30 to £40, which is simply too
01:27expensive for so many families.
01:29The thing is, I think you get the summer holidays, you get excited. The kids are off school,
01:33you just want to go out, you know, take the kids on day trips if you can afford it. Some
01:37people have spent a whole year so they can take their kids out. And then you get towards
01:41the end, you think, oh God, uniform time. And then some people haven't got the money
01:43because they have tried to have a bit of fun through the summer. And I think a lot of schools
01:48have like logos, which can be expensive. So I think that's the financial burden there.
01:54And they've got to have the logo, they've got to have the branding for the school. So
01:57it's just so expensive.