“Parents are engaging more with teachers and other professionals because they aren’t ashamed about how they look or smell.
Plus we have been able to give washing capsules to schools, so if a child has an accident during the school day, staff can wash the child’s clothes and send them back with some clean uniform for the next day”.
The Parenting and Family Support Services in Doncaster
A generous donation of £1,000 is enough to provide clean uniforms to a school for the whole winter, allowing the children to feel confident and not miss school.
The difference your gift could make:
We often hear about children missing school because they don’t have a clean uniform to wear, or the ability to clean their teeth, or wash their hair, because their family can’t afford hygiene products. This perpetuates the cycle of poverty because it impacts their opportunities in life.
In deprived areas, this can be a problem affecting almost every child in a particular school, and teaching staff would not have any way to help students if it were not for donations from The Hygiene Bank.
This Christmas, give the gift of kindness to hundreds of kids at a local school.
*All names have been changed to protect people’s privacy
Where does my donation go?
Your donation will help The Hygiene Bank distribute basic hygiene products to people who would otherwise struggle to afford them.
The Hygiene Bank receives product donations from members of the public and from collaborating brands and retailers. Donated products are then distributed via our 170 local projects - which are entirely run by our volunteers- to our network of 1600 Community Partners, who pass them on to people who need them most. Our Community Partners are schools, food banks, community centres, homeless shelters or womens’ refuges, among others.
We keep expanding our network, especially in areas where our support is needed most. The demand for our services keeps increasing due to the cost of living crisis, and we cannot supply products to our network with donated products alone.
The Hygiene Bank uses funds from campaigns like this one to:
- Buy products that people need that are not donated. This can include products that are not donated often and/or for people with people with specific needs – e.g. skin conditions, continence problems.
- Cover the costs of transport and storage to get donated products out to our local projects and store them safely until they are distributed to our Community Partners people who need them.
- Other necessary expenses involved in supporting and sustaining a national network of local projects, activities to attract more volunteers, train volunteers, and raising the funds needed to attract more donors, and more product donations, so local projects hubs continue to receive enough products for the people who need them.