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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Zoe Wood

M&S offers money off children’s clothes in exchange for used school uniforms

A child drops used clothing items into a ‘shwop’ box at a branch of Marks & Spencer.
Dedicated school uniform ‘shwop’ boxes will be located in the kidswear departments of more than 200 M&S branches. Photograph: Daniel Lewis

Families are being offered money off children’s clothes in Marks & Spencer if they donate school uniform hand-me-downs, as part of a push designed to help parents struggling to afford them amid the cost of living crisis.

The second-hand uniform collected will be sold via Oxfam’s high street chain as well as via a new “back-to-school” eBay shop. The tie-up is an extension of M&S’s existing “shwopping” partnership with Oxfam, in which customers drop off old clothing in exchange for loyalty card perks.

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