The Empower Period Smash The Stigma Challenge

We are fundraising through our Smash the Stigma Fundraising Challenge to deliver peer-led period support with the most marginalised girls, women and people with periods in our communities across the UK. Through co-creating a collective space for peer-led training, safe spaces for girls, women and people with periods to learn about their bodies and dismantle internalised period shame, as well as receiving Empowerment Packs containing sustainable period products and accessible menstrual education, we will empower vulnerable girls and women to reclaim their bodies and become leaders of their own lives.

Across the UK, thousands of girls, women and people with periods are unable to control their own bodies and lives because of period poverty and shame. The Coronavirus pandemic has only made this worse.

The Smash the Stigma Fundraising Challenge invites you to raise funds by dressing up in your best period-related outfit and march proudly with us through Sheffield City Centre to raise awareness around the importance of dismantling period shame to enable girls, women and people with periods to thrive! We will also be providing a Period Picnic at Endcliffe Park after the march to celebrate your fundraising efforts!

Think blood-stained pants and white clothes, tampon earrings, vagina prints - feel free to get creative! Unlike a physical challenge, this is a period stigma challenge, so the wackier your outfit, the more likely people will sponsor you to march through Sheffield wearing it for all to see!