What is Project Period?
Project Period, a collaboration between Students' Union UCL and Sustainable UCL, aims to make UCL the first university to offer free sustainable period products to anyone who needs it.
Project period began when the Students' Union’s Women's Officer began stocking free sanitary towels and tampons across all Students Union female toilets and at their main office for collection. Meanwhile, UCL's Hockey Society ran a campaign to promote menstrual cups in a bid to reduce single-use plastics across campus.
4.3 billion disposable menstrual products are used in the UK every year, and over 2 billion menstrual products are flushed down Britain’s toilets, contaminating our beaches.
Project Period aims to provide sustainable period products to staff and students who need them, to reduce period poverty, and to raise awareness of the pros and cons of different disposable and reusable menstrual products in relation to health and the environment. You can read more about Project Period here.
Rachel, your Welfare and Community Officer, and Eda, your Equity and Inclusion Officer, have put together a list of some of the places you can receive sustainable period products on campus.
Periods are normal, and access to period products should be, too. We’re proud to support Project Period, an initiative that prioritises sustainability and inclusivity on campus.
Rachel
By making sustainable period products freely available, we’re not just addressing a practical need - we’re also standing up for equity and student wellbeing.
Eda
These include:
- DMS Watson - Level 2 Female washroom & Level 4 Female washroom;
- IOE – 20 Bedford way – Library level 3 – female washroom;
- 1 to 19 Torrington Place – Ground floor – Washroom corridor gender neutral;
- SSEES Building – Library - Basement level – female washroom;
- Bidborough House – Ground floor toilets- gender neutral;
- Student Centre – Ground floor and 3rd-floor corridor;
- Wilkins – Main library – Female washroom.