New Zealand's best schools are turning to HMR for their school uniform trading needs, offering parents a reliable option for second-hand uniforms. With a dedicated uniform store, families can easily find the quality uniforms they need at affordable prices.
Typically HMR will deliver $10-20 per student per year to the school. How much you raise depends on the number of sales you run and the mix of 'sell on behalf' items vs. donations.
When items are donated all the revenue is retained by your school - typically 40% of items are donated.
With HMR your school or club retains a portion (set by the school) of the sale and the balance is returned directly to the seller's bank account.
There is a small monthly fee to run HMR as an online service which covers the hosting and maintenance cost.
A large high school with ~2,800 students that has been running HMR for 7 years, raised $44,000 in 2025 by running a Friday lunchtime store with 8 weekend events during the year.
No other fundraising effort raises that much for the school with so little effort.
Primary uniforms tend to have a lower cost per item so the commission earned is lower.
A primary school with 600 students can expect to raise around $4,700 per year running some weekday and occasional weekend events.
Those events require just a few hours for around 2 volunteers.
Its tempting to think of volunteer time as free but it really isn't. Volunteer time is your most precious resource and the time volunteers spend helping at school always has some personal cost.
HMR dramatically minimises the administration of running a second hand uniform shop - making it easier to recruit and retain volunteers.
Dealing with uniform sales means trusting volunteers to deal with significant amounts of cash.
HMR provides clarity and auditability throughout the process so volunteers, parents and the school can all be confident that the money raised is going where it should.
HMR directly benefits your community by providing easy access to affordable uniforms for everyone.
Since 2019 schools have fund-raised over $519,000 running HMR and returned over $337,000 to parents for uniforms sold.
Over the 2023, 2024 and 2025 years, schools running HMR raised on average of $13.38 per student for their school.
If you take your school roll and multiply it by $13.38, that is what you can reasonably expect your school to raise by using HMR to run your second hand uniform program.
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