Our Story

Period Friendly Places is a registered charity aiming to create towns and cities where nobody experiences period poverty and there is dignity for all.

 

Bristol has pledged to take a leading role in eradicating period poverty by making period products available to all who need them, while also combating outdated societal attitudes to menstruation. The Period Friendly Places vision is to eradicate period poverty and to be a city of period dignity, in which nobody is held back in life or stigmatised against simply for having a period.

 

Period Friendly Places has been on an exciting journey since early 2019. In January 2019, a Period Poverty summit was held in Bristol’s City Hall, which brought together 100 key figures from within the city and beyond to grapple with the first steps on how to make Bristol a city free of period poverty and period stigma, with representatives from organisations travelling from as far as Edinburgh to contribute to the event. Led at that time by Cllr Helen Godwin, Cabinet Lead for Women, Children and Families, and Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol, the first step was to establish a City wide Donation and Distribution Network.

 

2024 and beyond:

After slow progress during the pandemic, we introduced new trustees and life into the charity’s work. 2024 has brought new funding, a new brand and work to refreshing and expand our network of distribution centres and corporate partners. Exciting times indeed!