Newsletter 

Hello, Wincham Primary

We hope this finds you, your team and the students well.

We are writing to introduce Green Uniform and Baby Collective (GUB), a local community initiative based in Winsford. We work with families across Mid-Cheshire to provide access to good-quality school uniform and children’s essentials, helping to reduce cost pressures while promoting reuse and sustainability. You can find out more about us here: https://gubco.org/. 

Last year, we delivered a uniform support pilot with several local schools, helping families access both pre-loved and new items free of charge when needed. Following the pilot's success, we are now continuing and expanding this support to help more local families access good-quality school uniform. We now have the funding, provided by CWaC Crisis and Resilience funding, to extend this offer to your families. Families can apply directly using our application form here: https://forms.gle/3gQQeE24ZZwSs5DH7 

We will review each request to confirm the support we can provide and process it for families to collect over the summer break. We have developed a landing page which provides an overview and some FAQs for families: https://sites.google.com/gubco.org/schooluniformsupport/home 

We would really welcome your support in:

• Sharing information about the scheme with families who may benefit; 

• Signposting parents/carers to the application form in your newsletters, website and family support efforts; and

• Working with us where additional support or clarification may be needed.

As before, we aim to provide a mix of good-quality reused and new items, helping to reduce cost pressures on families while supporting sustainability. In the pilot, we fulfilled 33% of uniform requests with nearly new items, making the funding go further. We would welcome any information about your current pre-loved uniform offer. In particular, we would appreciate knowing whether you would be open to GUB facilitating access to any surplus uniform stock over the summer period so that items can be redistributed to families when they are most needed. Any unused items would be returned to the school at the start of term. We can arrange to collect these from you during the last week of term.

If you would like to find out more about the programme or discuss how we can work together locally, we would be very happy to arrange a quick conversation.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Michelle Hawthorne, Co-Director and Secretary