BLOODY GOOD PERIOD

Registered charity 1185849 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q110727081

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.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERIOD POVERTY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS, AND OTHERWISE DISPLACED PEOPLE WHO MENSTRUATE AND THEIR DEPENDENTS LIVING IN THE UK BY PROVIDING MENSTRUAL AND HYGIENE SUPPLIES AND ESSENTIAL MENSTRUAL EDUCATION.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE,PERIOD POVERTY REFERS TO THE INABILITY TO AFFORD OR HAVE ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Staffordshire Moorlands, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

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Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

2 annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

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