Making period products available to those that need them. Surrey County Council is proud to be launching a ground-breaking initiative with charity Binti International, to provide free period products in selected locations across Surrey and be the first county council in the UK to start eradicating period stigma. Katie Stewart, Strategic Lead for Equality Diversity and Inclusion at Surrey County Council, said: "Surrey County Council is proud to be involved in this initiative in partnership with Binti International to provide equal access to pads so no one need suffer the indignity of managing t ..read more

The Honours System Archive 2019 – 2012 As a result of the Coronavirus outbreak, Investitures at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle will be rearranged to later dates and the announcement of the 2020 Birthday Honours has been delayed until September 2020. The Honours System offers public recognition to people in all walks of life and all sections of society who have given quite exceptional service and made a difference in their community or in the country. There are several different types of award, each one recognising a different type of contribution (click here). The British Honour ..read more

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Manjit K Gill MBE Founder and CEO of Binti International says “My life’s motto is ‘If there is a will there is a way’. I am delighted to receive an honour from Her Majesty for the work we do around periods. Since I set up Binti, I have been grateful for the opportunity to travel around the world with a platform to speak from. Each opportunity igniting the way for another opportunity, bigger than the last, and all to talk about one of the most taboo subjects on the planet – Periods. The foundation of life and a regular occurrence for half of the world’s population, periods still ..read more

Kiran Juss Deputy Head TKAW applying Dignity at work stickers in all of the toilets at the school ..read more

As schools and businesses re-emerge from lockdown, Binti International is relaunching its Dignity at Work. Period. campaign to encourage businesses to supply free menstrual products. Binti was the first period charity in the UK and India and has a vision to create a world where all women menstruate with dignity. The Khalsa Academy a secondary school in Wolverhampton has become the first school globally to provide free menstrual products to all. Working with award winning period charity Binti International, the school now provides free period products for pupils, staff and visitors to the schoo ..read more

The Period Poverty Taskforce, which will focus its efforts on tackling the issue of period poverty and wider stigma around menstruation in the UK, met for the for time today The group is co-chaired by Plan International UK, Procter & Gamble and the Minister for Women & Equalities. Following today’s meeting, the Government Equalities Office (GEO) is announcing several convenors who will lead specific areas of the taskforce’s work: Bloody Good Period – focusing on improving access for to period products for everyone phs Group – also focusing on improving access Irise International ..read more