The Schoolwear Association helps schools with a number of areas, including tendering for a new supplier and various useful guides to how Schoolwear works.
Always check if your supplier is a member of the Schoolwear Association.
How the Schoolwear Association can help your school
Our Members
The Association is proud to have both supplier and retail members who pay a subscription towards the valuable work that we do. Our Executive give their time voluntarily, but the fees collected help us to produce informative material, lobby interested parties and of course provide a publicity service to the media. In addition, we work with schools to further the provision of good school uniform, and all the benefits that confers on both the schools and the pupils.
Useful Downloads
The Department for Education guidance on school uniforms states that where schools specify school branded items as part of their uniform policy, the governing board should ensure there is a written contract in place for these items. To support this guidance, we have produced a Template School Uniform Supply Agreement that is free to download for schools to use. This agreement has been created specifically with school uniform provision in mind from our unique knowledge of this process.
The Template School Uniform Supply Agreement has been designed for use in conjunction to a wider uniform procurement process where schools wish to have a sole supplier but could equally be adapted where multiple uniform providers are appointed by a school. The fields that require personalisation are all highlighted in yellow throughout the document and there are additional footnotes to assist when completing.
Click on the links to view two guideline documents designed to give you help with sourcing school uniform and the tender process. These can also be available as a Word document which you can edit to suit your own requirements.
Template School Uniform Supply Agreement
Guides
The Schoolwear Association has produced a number of guides to help schools and its members with relevant topics about how school uniform works. Here you can download guides to help with the process of sourcing school uniform and understanding how to protect your school logo so that others cannot misuse it or supply uniform against your wishes.
The Benefits of School Branded Uniform
The Aims and Values of the Schoolwear Association
School Uniform: A guide to specifying and sourcing uniform for schools and academies