The 40 Project @_The40Project

Super generous donation from @queeroutloud to make up this month's parcels 🙏🏻

Over the moon to have been awarded a year of funding from @CFPlym 'Ideas Space' for our tiny project - @_The40Project We have already doubled our monthly parcels due to need & this will enable us to expand to reach more women who are experiencing period poverty across Plymouth.

We're so pleased to be extending our monthly period kits to @shekinahcharity in addition to our usual spaces at @salvationarmy @TreviWomen & BCHA Housing. If anybody would like to support our project via donation or wishlist so that we can reach more women, please get in touch 🙏🏻

What a beautiful message to receive in our inbox from one of the brilliant women working at @TreviWomen This is exactly what we hoped for with our creative writing call out!

This month's parcels ready to go out, with a call for creative writing submissions 📝 @TreviWomen will be running a writing workshop for this at The Sunflower Centre with the women they support 🌻 We CANNOT WAIT to see what they come up with 🧠

🌟 Call Out for Creative Writing Submissions! 🌟 The 40 Project is seeking contributions from women, those who identify as female, or individuals who experience periods and from those who have lived experienced of sanitary hardship or homelessness. 📝 Pls contact us for info!

Hugely generous donation for our monthly parcels. Thank you SO much to those who continue to contribute. Cannot tell you how grateful we are.

This month's parcels going out to BCHA, Salvation Army & the Sunflower Centre 🩸🌻 We are running really low on a lot of items, please see our pinned post for the things that we fill our parcels with. There are loads of ways to donate - please drop us a message if you can help 🙏🏻

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April's parcels ready to be delivered to the women at BCHA, @salvationarmy @TreviWomen So much thought goes into these parcels & they smell incredible with all of the extra goodies included. If you want to donate & support women in Plymouth, please see our Amazon wishlist 🙏🏻

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Some of the items included in our monthly kits 🩸🧼📝 We now have an amazon wishlist (🔗 link in bio) if you would like to donate anything to our kits. Any support is so appreciated.

Thanks to some very kind individual donators and companies like @LushLtd we are also able to provide some more luxurious kits a few times a year to the women that we support. This was a gorgeous and generous donation from Lush last year.

Where it all began... Back in 2019 our founder Charlie Ranken began creating sanitary kits to provide, for free, to women who are homeless (including living in hostels, sofa surfing etc). We now have a small team of volunteers who collect, make & deliver our kits each month.

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