Let Periods Flow

our purpose

Let Periods Flow is a youth-led campaign by Anisa, from our Full Time Fierce programme - 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 crucial 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.

Getting Invovled

Demand your school signs the Let Periods Flow pledge. By signing the pledge, schools are committing to:

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

You can download a copy of the pledge to send to your school here

You can also write to your MP to ask them to ensure that the governments 'Period product scheme for schools and colleges' is extended past July 2025.

You can use our template letter here and find out who your MP is here

How to take part

On this website, you will find a number of resources to help your schools and MPs to Get Period Positive.

Letter templates for schools and MPs - use these to get in contact with the people in power

Ready-to-use period lessons for primary and secondary - send these to your schools when you’re asking them to sign up. Period education doesn’t have to be difficult!

Inclusive language guide - this easy-to-read guide explains the best language to use around periods, and why it’s important

Support with Period Education

As well as the animation at the top of this page, we have some great resources to help make period education inclusive in your school.

We have a template letter to send to your school to ask them to remove periods as a barrier to accessing education.

Ready-to-use period lesson plans and presentations. Send these to your schools when you ask them to sign the pledge. Period education doesn’t have to be difficult!

Inclusive language guide - this easy-to-read guide explains the best language to use around periods, and why it’s important.

You can access a subtitled version of the animation made by Cut the Mustard on YouTube.

About Anisa

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

Driven by a 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 contact info@reclaimproject.org.uk