Charities ‘Hey Girls’ and ‘Bloody Good Period’ staged an event aimed at tackling period poverty at Birmingham City University. ‘Let’s talk…periods’ event in Parkside atrium at Birmingham City University: image credit Stella Morrall. ‘Hey Girls’ is a social enterprise which produces environmentally-friendly period products that fund the UK’s anti-period poverty campaign. The other charity at the event, ‘Bloody Good Period’, supplies period products to those who can’t afford them and provides menstrual education. Free goody bags containing leaflets, sanitary products and self-care items were given to students and a raffle to win reusable ‘Hey Girls’ products took place. ‘Hey Girls’…
Author: Stella Morrall
Birmingham City University has launched its ‘Period Poverty’ campaign, bringing free menstrual products to students most in need. The campaign is part of a university-wide initiative that started earlier this year. Poster in Millenium Point restrooms. The products are available and replenished every week in restrooms and facilities around Arts, Design and Media faculties across the university. As part of the campaign, researchers at BCU are conducting a survey inviting students to share their experiences of periods whilst studying at university with the chance of winning a £20 Amazon voucher. The survey is being led by Dr. Angela Hewett alongside…
Refuse workers in Solihull are being balloted about potential strike action over a pay dispute involving Amey Services Limited. Workers of the private firm, are taking part in the vote which will close on March 4. The vote comes after representatives of GMB Union submitted an interim pay claim at the end of 2021 as a result of the increases to the cost of living. GMB Union has been in talks with Amey which have not been successfully resolved. The union have balloted for industrial action as a result of further talks not progressing. https://twitter.com/GMBWestMidlands/status/1490587983325630466 If the strike action goes…
HomelessOne – a leading charity fighting homelessness in the city – has found volunteers both unable to continue commuting and hit by charges on their vehicles since the introduction of the Clean Air Zone (CAZ) in Birmingham on 1st June 2021. Photo by Aayush Srivastava from Pexels HomelessOne serves over 62,000 hot meals and drinks every year in the city centre and ran a successful vaccination programme for service users through the pandemic. Beth-Gilde Young, a long-standing volunteer at the charity Homeless One said: “A couple of our volunteers were unable to use their own cars to drive in as it cost too much money. …
Kavita Bhanot, Roma Saimbi, Piali Ray OBE (Sampad), Anne Cockitt (Sampad) Birmingham based culture and arts development agency, Sampad Arts hosted local and international writers at a special launch party for the book – titled ‘My City, My Home’ – this week at The Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) in Edgbaston. https://twitter.com/sampad_arts/status/1461774847290355712 The organisation who also published the book, initiated an international competition searching for contributions from both established and emerging writers from Birmingham, Bangladesh and Pakistan in September 2020. The book contains a collection of 184 poems, short-stories, spoken word, letters and other prose with the aim of reflecting women’s identities and roles in the 21st Century. Piali Ray (OBE), Artistic Director of Sampad said: “It has been an ambitious project in the sense that we wanted to have three languages…