I am raising money to support my project "Helping Homeless Women in the North East. The project helps homeless women and vulnerable women in short term accommodation with handbag donations containing sanitary products, new knickers, hygiene products, basic essential items, snacks, hats, scarves and gloves. The donations are given to charities, projects, refuges and foodbanks in the area.

I started the project because one of the issues is women don't get free sanitary products or if they do they may be given one pad to last the whole period. This as you can imagine makes life very difficult and uncomfortable. Some of the women end up using a piece of cloth that they have to keep washing out or toilet paper which is deeply upsetting as no-one should have to do that. I help to ease that problem with donations of sanitary pads, tampons, panty liners that we take for granted as well as hats, scarves, gloves, survival blankets to keep warm in the cold weather.

I run a few campaigns a year to keep supplying charities and projects with donations. The biggest being at Christmas when items are in more demand.

You can get more information from my Facebook Group "Helping Homeless Women - North East. I am always looking for volunteers to support the campaigns throughout the year.

The money raised will go towards:
* buying sanitary pads, tampons, panty liners, new knickers, hygiene products
* ladies pyjamas for vulnerable women in refuges
* transport to collect and deliver handbags to charities and projects across the North East of England
* storage to store the handbags and other donations
* providing free pamper days offering haircuts, manicures etc.
* free relaxation classes / workshops for vulnerable women in the region

Please help by contributing to this worthy cause.