Our founder, Molly’s, response to the draft guidance around sex education ‘bans’.
Personal words here.
Stop sexualising our bodies before we are old enough to understand why. This plan is set to increase sexualisation and stigmatisation.
Wow…what a 24 hours.
A huge congratulations to our founder, Molly, who won the Rising Star Award at
@chwaraeteg
’s
#Womenspire
last night for her work at the LYP Campaign.
After an unimaginably difficult few years for the Fenton sisters, it was lovely to see them recognised.
Emotions running high with Molly making her official comeback as the Director of LYP after a gruelling 18 months for her.
Showing girls that anything is possible.
We know she’s still got a way to go but our girl is back.
📸
@Merryse235
Today we are celebrating
#nationalperiodday
in the UK because we are angry. This period poverty,stigma,plastic & tax is so infuriating, so we are spending our time as young women in society fighting for those menstruators around us who cannot afford these “luxury” items!❤️
Thrilled to announce
@UsforGirls1
and
@loveyourperiod
are partnering! Our first official international partnership!
Based in Uganda, Us For Girls provides mainly period poverty relief and general sexual and reproductive health.
We are so excited for what’s to come!❤️
England have trialled it.
Scotland have trialled it. And are implementing it.
Wales’ turn.
If we can get more people testing for HPV, then we can catch those strains that can cause cancer earlier, translating into prevention and ultimately saving lives.
Meet Molly (our founder), Jess and Becca (from our management team).
We’re in the Empowerment Zone at
@ChildFriendlyC1
’s
#RightsfestCardiff
with period products and to answer any questions you may have!🏴💙🩸🥰👏😆📸
If you needed a reminder of why women’s safety campaigns are needed.
These are messages we receive everyday.
We’ve picked out a few to show you what our work is faced with.
#WhiteRibbonDay2023
#VAWG
#16DaysOfActivism
Enough is enough.
The Love Your Period Campaign is proud to be a part of the development of the Welsh Government’s Strategic Action Plan for a Period Proud Wales by 2027. It has been an honour to represent young people across the country. Now, let’s get to work!
This is the only official page for The Love Your Period Campaign. A reminder of where to find us (as of February 2023)! For free period products, menstruation education, and all things women’s health made sense! ❤️🏴🩸
#loveyourperiod
Becca, our political liaison & member of management at LYP, speaking about her activism at the ‘We Belong Here’ Event at the
@SeneddWales
today!
Becca’s been keen to practice & improve her public speaking recently & this was huge for her today. We are so proud!👏❤️🏴
Diolch
@JackSargeantAM
for mentioning our work in the health committee meeting calling for an at home smear test option in Wales!
A promising response from
@Eluned_Morgan
.
England and Scotland have committed to trials. It’s Wales’ turn.
Petition:
Thank you Cllr Jess Moultrie for attending
#RTNCardiff
.
Women and marginalised groups’ safety is an issue & our politicians can no longer ignore this. We were very glad to see at least one seeing the real issues.
You can take products home for the hols. There are disposable/reusable options available for free. Details in the video!
If you have any issues accessing or any questions/queries, drop us a message.
Pasg Hapus! 🏴♥️🩸🐰
#loveyourperiod
#PeriodProudWales
#BalchOrMislif
We want to deliver on our commitment to recognising the inspirational women of Wales one final time before we close, that’s why…
🥁 🥁 🥁 …
We are proud to reveal our
#Womenspire
Awards finalists for 2023!
1000 X Followers🥳
We are Welsh women striving to create a big sister community to learn everything we didn’t about our bodies growing up.
Began by Molly for her sister, Tilly, we work worldwide so EVERYONE can have the big sister we all wanted growing up.
We spent 4 hours making sure every girl had the products they needed for this time off school. Thankyou to my amazing team that ran through the corridors with me and put up with my “STOP, PHOTO TIME” random moments. Stay safe everyone!⭐️
@LlanishenHS
@BoxLhs
We loved this part of Molly’s statement for
#InternationalDayOfTheGirl
.
LYP began with a team of teen girls angry about how their bodies were a disadvantage. 5 years on, we’ve expanded so that we can rewire the system for women like us.
We are proud to be Wales’ big sisters❤️🏴
Can we share this far please? We have a coach from Cardiff Central taking everyone to London for tomorrow’s period parade. Tickets don’t cost! We need more Welsh people!! ❤️
Message us/reply if you’d like a spot or more details!
@irise_int
#EveryPeriodCounts
As Molly attends Buckingham Palace today, we want to take the opportunity to thank her for her work. She fights non-stop behind the scenes to make the world a better place for girls.
Please join us in congratulating her!❤️
@RoyalVolService
#CoronationChampionsAwards
❤️LYP are thrilled that we have become the big sisters of Wales, covering more than periods.
🎉Anyone can join the movement.
🩸Here, volunteers Freya & Jess were marching through London representing Wales when LYP was co-hosting the
#EveryPeriodCounts
parade with
@irise_int
.
If you support LYP, then we know you love Molly.
Molly was diagnosed with her brain tumour when LYP began, but no one knew. She spends her time in women’s health advocacy to help others.
She is our world.
Please sign
@braintumourrsch
’s petition:
“This week donations to
@irise_int
are doubled. Without their help LYP wouldn’t be running today. Please consider donating so more girls can fight for their rights. We don’t want any girl to miss school like we had to” - Molly, founder of LYP
Donate now:
2 more trailblazers - Becci & Libby - at the ‘We Belong Here’ Senedd Event.
Activists that also are LYP ambassadors. Invaluable members of society, particularly for people with chronic illnesses. You should check out their work!
Da iawn
@Becci_frost87
&
@LibbyHumphris
!💗
EXCITING UPDATE!
In July we will be part of the roundtable discussion with the Department of Education following your ‘Every Period Counts’ stories being handed to
@10DowningStreet
by Tilly Fenton.
@WelshGovernment
we’re on our way to you next!
👏✨🎉 ❤️🇬🇧🏴
LYP’s own
@mollyfentonx
&
@MoultrieJess
have set up a Senedd Petition for at-home smear tests to be available in Wales. We need signatures! Please share far and wide and send to your friends living in Wales. Anyone can sign with a Welsh postcode.
An excellent delivery from the
#MakeMenopauseMatter
team to get their new menopause support booklet out in Wales. Looking forward to working with Cardiff Cllr
@MoultrieJess
in getting more support for the women of Cardiff & wider Wales.
Where would you like to see these?
We're giving out soooooo many products recently.
We’re now community partners of
@HeyGirlsUK
(photoshoot pending) to be 100% plastic free (you ask we deliver!), so the Government’s “hard to reach” Welsh areas can continue to be reached by us.
Diolch o galon Hey Girls❤️🏴🩸
Today, Molly & Tilly will be attending the Department of Education’s Roundtable discussion called in response to the Every Period Counts Campaign and Tilly handing your stories into 10 Downing Street. We are still collecting your anonymous stories here: 🩸
An appreciation post for Cllr
@Merryse235
’s ongoing support of LYP & for acting upon issues we bring to her. We know Cllr Merry has worked very hard leading Cardiff becoming the UK’s first Child Friendly City so here’s to our feminist icon of this week!👏💗🏴🏅💐👑
🚨SCHOOLS SHUT TOMORROW🚨
All schools have disposable and reusable products. Anyone can take as many as they need home, for themselves or their families.
Schools PLEASE make these accessible in a dignified way.
Hubs have products over Summer.
LYP is open all summer too.
Our founder
@mollyfentonx
is up for the People’s Choice Award for everything she does here at
#loveyourperiod
, and in her journey with an inoperable brain tumour.
You can vote for her or others on the link below. ⬇️
An important statement from us on Saturday’s
#RTNCardiff
.
We think you should know.
“We will see you in January when we go again, then in March, June, September, November 2024…and as long as it takes.”
Thank you to everyone who came. We won't be intimidated into stopping.🤍
Tilly was
@LHScardiff
tonight giving out
@HeyGirlsUK
products to pupils and talking to the community about our campaign. Welcome to all our new followers! You can find us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok too!
#loveyourperiod
🩸🏴❤️
Our scientific anatomy is crucial to know and does not need to hidden from girls growing up. We were 15 & 20 when we started to understand this stuff and that’s way too late.
It’s not inappropriate- we must erase this complete sexual connotation.
#loveyourperiod
🏴
#DyddG
ŵylDewiHapus
Let’s improve our Welsh language menstruation skills. Barod?
A thread🧵
The most obvious first - Period! Mislif!
We love these cards by Bloody Brilliant Wales. We've used these for the past year with the launch of
#PeriodProudWales
#BalchOrMislif
!
#RTNCardiff
Walk 1 - November 2023
What a turn out. The first walk was in partnership with
@cardiffstudents
to make the passing of the ‘Time To Act’ AGM motion.
We were faced with many comments from male passers. Proved why we needed the walk.
As
#IWD2023
comes to a close, our work doesn’t. 1 day to celebrate women. 365 days (2024 leap year😚) of suffering. Abuse, feeling unsafe, not leaving our houses past 6pm, not wearing headphones.
Join the fight. Everyone has a duty too. If not, you’re part of the problem.
Tilly represented LYP at the
@irise_int
Empower Period Summit today in Sheffield as a winner of Irise’s Empower Period Award 2022. She represented the whole of Wales talking about the period dignity scheme and her work. You did an incredible job!
#loveyourperiod
@LHScardiff
🩸🏴
Molly is a true force of nature. Thank you for the time and effort you put into this campaign. It’s because of you Wales and now the wider world is becoming a better and safer place for women and girls. Keep going Mols, we’ve got you!!✨💪💗
IMPORTANT: GAZA, WOMEN, PERIODS
We’ve teamed up with Direct Funds Gaza Wales & a Journalist to get period products to women using period-delaying pills due to being without access to water and hygiene products.
READ MORE in the comments.
Donate:
The team were reflecting about how we thought kids like us weren’t going to get far. We didn’t achieve high grades, missed education, suffered illness. The majority of us had period poverty.
It’s an honour to be able to show other young people that we did it, and so can they.
Who else cried at Molly’s speech at
@EveryWomanFest_
?🙈
A personal journey through her sucess at LYP and the challenges she’s faced the past year through ill health.
We had to share this quote. You know your normal.
Molly we are so proud of you!🎉
#EveryWoman2023
You can take period products home this summer. Welsh schools have disposable/reusable products and with no limitations as to what you can take for your family.
Schools/teachers - please ensure it’s advertised & accessible in a dignified way.
#PeriodProudWales
#balchormislif
🩸
It’s the final week of school. Please help us spread the word to make sure girls aren’t held back by their period this summer break. Any issues accessing products please contact us and we can help.❤️🏴🩸
#PeriodProudWales
#BalchOrMislif
Amazing chat with
@LeoHolmes1999
from
@TTCWales
this a.m off the back of
@LoveYourPeriod1
coming forward about the threats we received after the launch of
#PeriodProudWales
the last few weeks. Working out what we can do to raise awareness around young women in activism/politics!
“I’m walking around with a wedge of toilet paper protecting me as I’ve unpredictably started. I can’t find products anywhere in public toilets. My local shop £3.50 for pads.”
Just received this.
This is what we mean when we say we have a lack of period dignity in the UK.
What an incredible presentation! We love our ongoing partnership with
@phsgroup
and are extremely proud of Bethan and Kelly, as well as our founder Molly for her ongoing hard work. Let’s get Period Equity back on the agenda!💗
Our founder
@mollyfentonx
is up for the People’s Choice Award for everything she does here at
#loveyourperiod
, and in her journey with an inoperable brain tumour.
You can vote for her or others on the link below. ⬇️
Thank you to everyone who donated to the Gaza appeal.
We've raised £3,500 that's been sent to Gazan Journalist Mustafa Musallam who will give period products directly to civilians.
They're now the equivalent of £10 for a pack of pads. 💔
Thanks
@beth_alaw
for sharing.
FREE PERIOD PRODUCTS FOR ALL THIS CHRISTMAS. Confidential with no record. Message us and we can provide/send you to your closest location.🏴🩸
Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i chi i gyd! 🎅🏼🎄
Diolch yn fawr to every single follower for supporting us!
#loveyourperiod
‼️WELSH SCHOOL PUPILS‼️If you require period products, please contact your education establishment or myself to arrange to have these confidentially. You are entitled to free products even when schools are closed!
Thanks to YOU, the
#EveryPeriodCounts
Campaign has reached 791 million people.
Thank you all who shared our work, shared their story, and came to the period parade.
Thank you
@Celia_Vbles
for facilitating this for us young people.❤️
Oh, big announcement at 4pm btw🏴🙊👀
@mollyfentonx
This Molly was invited to the King’s Coronation. This Molly won the Queen’s Coronation Award. This Molly campaigns with cannulas in. This Molly picks up the phone at 11pm to help someone in need. You’ll learn to shape your new life and we will be there to cheer you on every step.
APPRECIATION for our very own Margaret.
87 y/o Margaret spent some time donating a wide range of pads in Penarth during emergency appeals, such as our Ukraine refugee collection.
Watch out for more news in the coming weeks of our next emergency menstrual aid project.
#EveryPeriodCounts
but make it Welsh. So far, only England has benefited from this campaign, but
@irise_int
has helped us take a lead in Wales.
Looking forward to working with
@Heledd_Plaid
on this.
Submit your period story/ find out more:
🏴🩸
It isn’t frequent that the work I do makes me emotional, but watching
@Heledd_Plaid
share my work since 2019 at
@SeneddWales
tonight has gotten me! Videos and responses to come but for now: Heledd, thank you❤️🩸🏴
#loveyourperiod
Molly will be on BBC Radio 5 Live at 9am to talk about the call to axe the period pants tax that the wonderful
@wukawear
have been fighting for.
Here’s the petition:
@mollyfentonx
FREE PERIOD PANTS FOR YOU!
You can access a range of plastic free and reusable products in all schools, hubs and many community centres across Wales at no cost. If you have any issues/need help then drop us a message!🥰🏴🩸
#LoveYourPeriod
#BalchOrMislif
#PeriodProudWales
‼️EVENING EVENT IN CARDIFF!
Come along to this FREE event December 8th by
@mymenses
. We love these evenings so much and so excited they’ve come to Wales.
Molly will be on the panel as well as LYP ambassadors Bethan and Heledd.
Free Tickets
SHARE YOUR STORY!
Shift the shame. Share your future.
We are collecting anonymous period stories to present to the UK and Welsh Gov to invoke legislative change.
It’s time to have our voice heard. Do your part for women’s health.
Submit stories here:
Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
!
We have more to say on this later. Whilst we know today is a celebration it's easy to be a pinkwashing distraction.
But for now, Happy IWD.💓
We’ve been informed of an incident with an Uber driver last night in Cardiff where an 18-year-old woman was made to endure inappropriate questions/comments. She’s given us permission to share. Please be aware but also report and find this man. Video evidence available.
@UberUK
We couldn’t be more grateful for our founder who LYP’s Welsh youth sector proudly nominated for
#YouthWorkAwards23
.
Our lives have been bettered by Molly. Girls all across Wales’ lives have. She devotes her life to LYP as Wales’ big sister.
Llongyfarchiadau a diolch, Molly!
⭐ Youth Work encourages, enables and equips young people to express themselves, improve their lives and fulfil their potential.
Congratulations to the finalists in the
#YouthWorkAwards23
.
💫 We're looking forward to see you all 22.2.24. 🎉
You can take period products home this summer. Welsh schools have disposable/reusable products and with no limitations as to what you can take for your family.
Schools/teachers - please ensure it’s advertised & accessible in a dignified way.
#PeriodProudWales
#balchormislif
🩸
What a win! Huge congratulations
@wukawear
team backed by
@marksandspencer
. Thrilled we could support throughout.
A special shout-out to Anvi who worked so hard.❤️
Tax on period pants to be abolished in Autumn Statement - BBC News
Cardiff Cllr Jess Moultrie entered the full council meeting last night channeling her inner girl boss Barbie. Jess recently became a member of LYP.
We thank Jess for her constant work in Cardiff and wider Wales by helping us push our political side of LYP.
👏💗💐✨
#barbie
1️⃣We have very little education - many of us none at all - in school about menopause and what it actually consists of. So the very little information we all get has taught us girls it’s basically an “end” that we should dread. But we really shouldn’t be teaching young girls that!
Molly gave a talk to budding youth period activists in Vancouver, Canada last night (at midnight UK time!) about how she began LYP and her top tips as a successful teen activist.
What a wonderful group were really excited to collaborate with.
We are thrilled that our founder, Molly, is 1 of the 500 official Coronation Champions!
The
#CoronationChampionsAwards
, launched by
@RoyalVolService
, is all about recognising the outstanding efforts of volunteers across the country!
More here:
Let’s say I’m using 8 tampons a day (very likely), then I’d be spending £12 for the ‘best value’ simply to bleed each month.
For pupils going back to school that could get them their notebooks and basic stationary to last them most of the year.
As we arrive home we want to thank
@PlanUK
,
@rose_girlpower
,
@LizzyFauvel
and Patricia
@SalesforceUK
for an incredible day in London. The Young Changemaker has changed our lives. These people have reignited our love for our work and we now excited for the future of LYP!🏴❤️🩸
Our girls Molly & Tilly joined the
@SheffCouncil
meeting this morning to discuss Sheffield’s Period and Menopause Equality Charter launching this October (Menopause Awareness Month) lead by Cllr
@JaynePDunn
! An honour for us all to be involved. Diolch!❤️🩸
A few of our team members have joined our founder, Molly, at the
@ChildFriendlyC1
Gender Rightsfest today. We’re in the Empowerment Zone with period products and a few activities. Come say hi!
1 WEEK LEFT until Molly & Tilly attend the first
@irise_int
‘Every Period Counts’ day bringing Welsh representation to the UK wide campaign. If you’d like to be apart of making history in the period dignity world then contact us! ❤️🏴🩸
#ourvoicesheard
#everyperiodcounts
We received an excellent email today. Another school has joined the fight for period dignity.
All pupils have received an email with the attached locations below.
Llongyfarchiadau, Ysgol Uwchradd Llanisien! Welcome to the team!
@LHScardiff
#loveyourperiod
Someone explain to me why in 2021 we are still sticking tampons up our sleeves when going to the bathroom as if smuggling illegal drugs into the country.
Agree?
Sign the UK wide petition to ensure we safely learn how to use period products, and its taken as seriously as condom education.
Molly memes are back😌
Amazing visiting
@officialCHS
to see so many donations from staff & students! Thankyou to
@Charity_CHS
& Marianna for your fabulous work. Thankyou aswell to
@SixthFormCHS
for so many donations from you all. Your donations will be going out next week.♥️
I have a load of unopened sanitary packet donations that need to leave my home ASAP! Been trying to donate to charities and organisations for months but haven’t been accepted! Anyone know anywhere or need any? Please help and share!
#cardiff
We wanted to give special recognition to Tilly Fenton as 2023 ends.
Tilly - off her own back - took her sister’s place & led us whilst being a full-time carer & sitting GCSEs.
She stepped in to finish
@PlanUK
changemakers & led Wales in
#EveryPeriodCounts
.
Diolch o galon Tilly!❤️