Good News Story – Partnership! Period. 

Through the ongoing partnership work between El from the THinK (Teenage Health in Knowsley-Home | Think Knowsley) team and Janine from our partners at Activate Body and Mind-Activate Body & Mind | Community | England (who focus on supporting communities to make positive choices towards their health and wellbeing), MYA Our Place now has free period products and wellbeing resource kits to share with the Knowsley community!  

El and Janine first started working in partnership through a collaborative ReCITE (Reducing Childhood Inequalities Through Engagement) project, delivering ‘train the trainer’ style sessions to young people in Knowsley, who re-deliver these sessions during HAF (Holidays, Activities and Food) to their younger peers. 

Janine and El connected during the ReCITE project and identified their shared passion for women and girls’ health. El had recently completed Period Proud Training with Plan UK and was keen to bring free period products and resource kits to Knowsley for the community to access. Janine, through Activate, had received funding to create wellbeing kits for women and girls, which include hygiene products, sanitary towels, herbal tea and information booklets about menstrual health.  

As a result of this partnership, Janine has kindly donated 50 wellbeing kits, 100 period pants, and 15 boxes full of sanitary towels to MYA Our Place! The team are now working hard to distribute the donated wellbeing kits and period products across Knowsley to benefit as many young people with periods as possible!