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Get involved in period education with Let Periods Flow

Anisa Juma, Full Time Fierce programme, RECLAIM
Anisa Juma, Full Time Fierce programme, RECLAIM
Let Periods Flow is a youth-led campaign to ensure that schools are properly educating their young people about periods and providing them with easy access to period products. Read on to find out more and how to get involved.

What is Let Periods Flow?

Let Periods Flow is a youth-led campaign by Anisa, from RECLAIM’s Full Time Fierce programme. It campaigns to ensure that schools are properly educating their young people about periods, as well as providing them with easy access to period products.

The past few years have seen some improvements in period provisions, including the government’s decision to provide free period products to schools. However, period stigma is still deeply entrenched, and hugely damaging. What’s more, the government’s commitment to free period products currently only extends to July 2025.

Let Periods Flow is a campaign which aims to:

  • Put pressure on schools and MPs to ensure that all young people have access to period education
  • Demonstrate how period education can be inclusive, stigma free and accessible, whether you have periods or not!
  • Ensure all young people have access to free period products

How do you get involved?

You can get involved by asking your school to sign the Let Periods Flow pledge. By signing the pledge, schools are committing to:

  1. Educate all students about periods
  2. Provide easy access to free period products
  3. Use language properly that is inclusive, stigma-free and accessible when discussing periods

On the Let Periods Flow campaign site, you can access resources to help you do this.

This includes a pledge to send to your school as well as a template letter which you can send to your MP to ask them to ensure that the government’s “period product scheme for schools and colleges” is extended past July 2025.

How do I get support with period education?

As well as the animation on this page, RECLAIM have some great resources to help make period education inclusive in your school.

The campaign website also has ready-to-use period lesson plans and presentations, which you can send to your school when you ask them to sign the pledge. Period education doesn’t have to be difficult!

Access the lesson plans and an inclusive language guide at the Let Periods Flow campaign site.

About Anisa

Anisa joined RECLAIM as part of the Full Time Fierce gender justice campaigning programme in 2021.

Driven by frustration at the lack of period education in schools, Anisa created “Let Periods Flow” in order to ensure that all students of all genders have access to quality period education, as well as pushing schools to provide period products that are easily accessible to those who need them.

Anisa has just finished her A Levels, and will be off to America for University this Summer!

For more information about the campaign or to receive the resources in a different format, please click here to email RECLAIM.

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