Hey Girls Reaches 10 Million Donation Milestone

Social enterprise Hey Girls this week donated their 10 millionth period product to women and girls in need across the UK. Founded in 2018, Hey Girls’ mission is to end period poverty in the UK, a Plan UK study published in 2018 found that 1 in 10 women and girls find themselves unable to afford period products from month to month. Since launching, Hey Girls has developed a network of over 200 donation partners across the UK to ensure that period products go to those who need them most.  Through…

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Over 3,000 Period Products Distributed Directly To People’s Homes During COVID-19 By Hey Girls & Local Authority Partners

Periods don’t stop for pandemics, and neither does the fact that women and girls across the UK will inevitably be facing period poverty during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Social enterprise Hey Girls’ mission since being founded in 2018 is to eradicate period poverty in the UK, something which will become harder once the true economic impact of Covid-19 becomes clear. Since 2018, Hey Girls has been working with local authorities, schools and colleges in Scotland and since 2020 in Wales to deliver free period products to students, constituents and service users. …

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Social Enterprise Hey Girls launches red period pants to support domestic abuse victims

Hey Girls have an important message to share with the launch of their new style of period pants.  Supporting the UK governments campaign #YouAreNotAlone, the message is clear, at home shouldn’t mean at risk. As COVID19 hit the UK, it forced many people into lockdown in homes that unfortunately were not safe. It comes as a sad reality that because of this, many people across the country are now imprisoned in environments of domestic abuse and violence. Many charities and domestic abuse campaigners have reported an unprecedented increase in calls…

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Hey Girls launches ‘UNsanitary’ product range to raise Period Poverty awareness

Social enterprise Hey Girls, adam&eveDDB and The Big Issue have come together to launch a national campaign to raise awareness of the shocking extent of period poverty in the UK. The campaign centres around a new brand called ‘UNsanitary’, so named as 1 in 10 girls and young women are regularly forced to use unsanitary items in place of real sanitary products, because they cannot afford it. The UNsanitary range, created by adam&eveDDB, encompasses real products, available at pop-ups in selected ASDA stores on Saturday 15th February. At first glance,…

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Hey Girls Mean Business with #PeriodDignity Campaign

Did you know that 68% of women Hey Girls chatted to who got their period at work left immediately if they didn’t have the right product to hand? This UK Social Enterprise has launched a nation-wide Period Dignity campaign to bring period equality in the UK workplace. Period Dignity is essential to health and well-being at work.Hey Girls are aiming to make free sanitary products in the workplace the norm. The Hey Girls mission to bring #PeriodDignity to the UK is well underway, already facilitating the likes of Autotrader, BrewDog,…

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