We deliver period pads, tampons, and reusable products to anyone who needs them in Leeds and West Yorkshire. Our team distributes these products at homeless shelters, foodbanks, minority groups, and refugee and asylum-seeker services among others in the area. We believe nobody should go without essential menstruation support!
Love sewing? Our Leeds-based sewing groups provide a fun and relaxed atmosphere to meet like-minded sewers to sew reusable period pads. We provide sewing machines and fabrics, and our sewing group coordinator will help hone your skills. Beginners are welcome to come along and have fun making reusable pads for our work in East Africa!
Freedom4Girls provides reusable period products as well as disposable period products. We run booths at community groups distributing menstrual cups, period underwear, and reusable period pads. If it all sounds confusing our experienced team talks through all the reusable options with you to make sure you go home with the right information and right product for you.
We work with a variety of public places to encourage them to provide free period products for all their staff and customers. We want to make Leeds and Leicester a safe place for menstruators, and this starts with our community.
Freedom4Girls is constantly at the forefront period poverty in the media. We have been on most major national UK news outlets tackling difficult issues such as the reality of living in poverty in the cost-of-living crisis. We worked together with Plan International to produce statistics on period poverty in the UK, and worked together to define the ‘toxic trio’ of period poverty.
Getting your period for the first time is scary enough, but not knowing what’s happening is even scarier. We work with schools and community groups to provide tailored menstrual health education sessions helping young people start their periods with confidence.
Period poverty in East Africa is dire, lack of access to products and period shame often means young people miss school when they are menstruating. In Kenya we hire local seamstresses to make reusable period pads, that we then distribute to schools alongside menstrual health education that would not otherwise be taught. Our reusable pads can be reused for up to five years, and together with our education can help a young person change their life.