Thanks to our students’ feedback, we’ve worked in partnership with the Students’ Union to make free sanitary products available across all campuses.
The products, available on all sites, include free sanitary pads, free tampons and free condoms.
These can currently be accessed via the following locations:
- Regent campus: gym ladies’/men’s toilets; lower ground non-gender toilets opposite the Old Gym; 2nd floor ladies' toilets
- Marylebone campus: toilets on the ground floor located next to the library; corridor to toilets located next to Bloomberg Suite; disabled toilet on 4th floor
- Harrow campus: gym ladies’/men’s toilets; Forum ground floor ladies’/men’s toilets; EG Block ladies' toilet; gender neutral toilets in the library on 1st Floor; A Block Fashion 4th floor gender neutral toilet
- Cavendish campus: ground floor ladies’ toilets by Estates Office; disabled toilet located next to Estates Office, toilets near the SU Shop, SU Shop display stand
- LTS campus: ground floor ladies’/men’s toilets
Stands can also be found in UWSU office spaces located at Marylebone campus as well as in the UWSU shops at Cavendish and Harrow campuses.
Taruna Bangia, UWSU Vice-President of Welfare, said: “As Vice President of Welfare, ensuring that the right support is in place for students is my main focus. Periods have been brushed under the table in some communities for years, it’s high time we change that; it’s time we eliminate the stigma by normalising these notions and conversations thereof. Students are facing a cost-of-living crisis and sanitary products should never been deemed as a luxury.
“We have been working with the University to deliver the right range of products at the right locations and are still actively pushing for the campaign to increase awareness, gain further traction and address any queries that students might have.”
Campus Services Manager Steve Ford, who has been leading on this work alongside Taruna Bangia, said: “We are delighted to have worked with the UWSU to support and deliver this important initiative, which reinforces our University’s commitment to the welfare and wellbeing of our student community.
“The scheme is already proving popular, and we will continue to review where we can further support our students’ needs.”
Keep an eye on @uniwestminster and @westminstersu for up-to-date information on the products and their locations.
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