BLOODY GOOD PERIOD

Registered charity 1185849 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · filing overdue (register status)

Recognising the trauma and anxiety caused by not having access to essential menstrual products, we work to create a menstrually equitable society by providing asylum seekers, refugees and those in poverty and otherwise displaced people and their dependents with unrestricted access to high quality, free period supplies of their choice, accompanied by menstrual and female health education.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Latest income

£916k

Latest spending

£897k

Registered

2019

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Total income

£916k

Total spending

£897k

Cost of raising funds

£229k

Reserves (reported)

£120k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 25.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (23/07/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Clare MULLEN
Fiona Pei Shan Yeung
Lisa Jane Cranston
Melissa Gardner
Shakiba Oftadeh Moghadam

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	—	—
31/12/2023	£916k	£897k
31/12/2022	£724k	£685k
31/12/2021	£454k	£545k
31/12/2020	£480k	£452k

Common questions

Who funds BLOODY GOOD PERIOD?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BLOODY GOOD PERIOD as a grant recipient include TRUST FOR LONDON, AKO FOUNDATION, THE BALCOMBE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE FUNDING NETWORK, THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
TRUST FOR LONDON	FY2022	£80k	Decent living standards
AKO FOUNDATION	FY2025	£64k
THE BALCOMBE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£34k	Health and welfare
THE BALCOMBE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£25k	Health and welfare
THE FUNDING NETWORK	FY2024	£24k
THE BALCOMBE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£15k	Health and welfare
THE BALCOMBE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£15k	Health and welfare
THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION	FY2021	£13k	A fund designed to address the sanitary and toiletry needs of refugee women.
THE SAM AND BELLA SEBBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2021	£13k	Employers project
THE SAM AND BELLA SEBBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2022	£13k	Employers project
THE LANCASHIRE FOUNDATION	FY2022	£10k
H&F Giving	FY2022	£10k	Period Poverty Grant
THE ADINT CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£10k
THE FUNDING NETWORK	FY2023	£10k
W F SOUTHALL TRUST	FY2023	£8k	Social Action
THE ADINT CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£5k
W F SOUTHALL TRUST	FY2025	£5k	Social Action
W F SOUTHALL TRUST	FY2024	£5k	Social Action
THE HARDY FAMILY FOUNDATION	FY2025	£5k
THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION	FY2024	£5k
THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION	FY2023	£2k	Donation
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION	FY2023	£1k
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION	FY2022	£1k
SMALLWOOD TRUST	FY2021	£0

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	21/12/2023	£382k	Reaching Communities with menstrual health needs.
A B Charitable Trust	22/04/2021	£15k	A grant to Bloody Good Period
The National Lottery Community Fund	15/05/2020	£50k	London Funders Wave 2 Bloody Good Period