Tag: Hey Girls

Lyreco Ireland joins Hey Girls to improve period dignity in workplaces

Stuart Mitchell

Hey Girls’ award-winning products will be available in offices across Ireland thanks to an exciting new partnership with Europe’s leading distributor. Worldwide distributor of office supplies and workplace solutions, Lyreco, has introduced Hey Girls as one of its approved suppliers for customers in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Lyreco Ireland takes great pride in supporting businesses to achieve their green and sustainability goals, with over 3,800 products that meet their Sustainable Selection by Lyreco criteria. Now, Hey Girls’ period products have been added to that list. Lyreco…

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Hey Girls partner with Britain’s largest care home operator

Stuart Mitchell

Hey Girls are thrilled to announce a new partnership with HC One, Britain’s largest care home operator. HC-One colleagues now have access to our free disposable and reusable period products across its nationwide network of homes thanks to the partnership alongside distributor Lyreco. The partnership covers all 267 care homes operated by HC-One, alongside its support office in Darlington, reaching thousands of colleagues nationwide. Anna Selby, Director of Kind Care at HC-One, said: “We are really pleased to offer our colleagues environmentally-friendly period products from Hey Girls. “Kind care is…

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Hey Girls have been shortlisted for two national awards!

Stuart Mitchell

Hey Girls has been named a finalist in both the Social Impact: Prove It and Social Enterprise of the Year categories at this year’s UK Social Enterprise Awards, recognising us as one of the country’s most innovative and impactful businesses.​‌‌‌​‌‌‍‌​‌‌‌​‌​‍‌​‌‌‌​‌ The team beat stiff competition to make the shortlist, which attracted more than 400 entries from all over the country. The news comes as Hey Girls was also named in the shortlist in the Social Value category at this year’s GO Awards Scotland. Hey Girls exists to eradicate period poverty…

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New Report Highlights Battle Against Period Poverty

Stuart Mitchell

‘We will not stop fighting until the UK is rid of period poverty once and for all’, a multi-award-winning social enterprise has said after publishing a hard-hitting impact report on its recent work. Hey Girls, recently named Scottish Social Enterprise of the Year, issued the report in a year that saw it surpass astonishing milestones of donating 30 million period products and saving 780 million disposables from going to landfill since 2018. The not-for-profit operates on a buy one, donate one model, matching every purchase with a donation to its…

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Algeco partners with Hey Girls to help end period poverty in the construction industry

Stuart Mitchell

Algeco, a leading modular and offsite building solutions brand, has announced a partnership with social enterprise Hey Girls to reduce period poverty in this sector. Hey Girls’ products are now available to staff for free at all Algeco sites across the UK, and for every product Algeco buys, one is donated to someone who needs it. Set up in 2018, Hey Girls is the award-winning buy-one, donate-one social enterprise, creating plant-powered period products that fund the fight to end period poverty in the UK. Our period products offer the functionality…

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