Tag: My Period

Hey Girls and My Period work together to supply free period products in Northern Ireland

Stuart Mitchell

Making history! New legislation to provide free period products to anyone who needs them came into operation in Northern Ireland in the summer of 2024. This makes it just the second country in the whole world to make free period products publicly available, Scotland being the first. The period products are being supplied by Hey Girls, with the outreach supported by its charitable arm My Period. It means the company’s period products will be available in every public library, including mobile libraries, across Northern Ireland with Libraries NI. Find period…

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Hey Girls and My Period secures Inclusive Recovery Funding to open second period product dispatch centre in Norfolk.

Stuart Mitchell

Multi Award winning Social enterprise Hey Girls’ operation is expanding further into England, with a successful grant from the Inclusive Recovery Fund to open a My Period dispatch centre in Diss, Norfolk.  Hey Girls CIC was founded in 2018 as a buy one give one menstrual product social enterprise, with a mission to end period poverty in the UK. Since then, they have donated over 12 million period products across the UK – working with over 250 community partners spread across the country to distribute products directly to people in need.  The…

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