Pupils in Grimsby have been given onesies to help keep them warm at home
A school charity in Grimsby has handed out over 1,300 onesies to pupils to help keep them warm at home as families struggle with the cost of living
Pupils at two schools in Grimsby have been given onesies to help keep them warm at home as families struggle with the cost of living. Oasis hub is a school charity, for Oasis Academy Nunsthorpe and Wintringham, and came up with the idea back in August.
After hearing that many families may struggle this winter, the team at Oasis Hub decided they would try and help. That resulted in the idea of gifting a onesie or oodie to as many pupils as possible.
The two schools involved include Oasis Academy Nunsthorpe and Wintringham.
Michelle Donner, the Hub Leader said it was about doing something to help:
“Our aim is to help every child in both academies stay warm this winter, especially when so many families are struggling with the rising costs of living. We just wanted to do something tangible and make a difference to our community”
After getting funding locally, they set their sights on sourcing, which they decided would be done in-house in Grimsby. After talks. The Uniform Hut Grimsby decided they'd like to be the ones to source them.
Michelle told us what they meant to the team:
"We managed to source 1,325 onesies which allowed all of the academy students, from age 4 up to 16, to have a onesie or an oodie.
"We could have gone to a supermarket, and we could have bought them from there, but we wanted to invest back into the local economy. So, it's been a really true Grimsby operation to make it happen."
This is just one part of the Hub’s support offer this winter. Over the last few months, they been preparing by organising ‘living rooms’ in community spaces, such as churches, community halls or at the academies.
These are warm places offering friendship, refuge and activities for the whole family, part of the national Oasis ‘Operation Warm Welcome’ campaign.
Michelle told us why they're doing all this:
"We really wanted to just make sure that our families were warm, so we can always offer human warmth and the warmth of a building, which we would heat anyway.
"It's costing £10 a day to heat a house at a minimum. So, I think it's something as well that we wanted to make sure everybody was included, and the reason for that is because it this isn't a low-income issue, this is a national issue, and it's affecting everybody. Everybody's feeling that pinch, and really kind of seeing their money is just wishing away."