Our Annual Report for 2022 is now available to read here. The annual report from our sister organisation, Irise Institute East Africa, is also available for the same period.Irise is a driving force for Period Equality locally, nationally and globally. In 2022 we:• Catalysed youth-led action for Period Equality across the UK. • Equipped a grassroots...
After a decade of service, our founding CEO, Emily Wilson, is moving on to new adventures and it is time for the Irise community to choose their next CEO.Irise was set-up to enable the voice and power of the people most held back by period inequality and injustice. Since day 1 our incredible team of...
Irise was started in response to a Kenyan schoolgirl, given a chance to tell stakeholders what she wanted and needed, sharing that periods were holding her back in school and that no one would listen. We dreamt of creating an institution that could champion the voice and leadership of the people most sidelined by this...
We're looking for new partners to join our Empower Period South Yorkshire Programme. Partners receive:training to deliver peer-led period support in their community or school paid support for 2 youth champions to deliver peer-led activities can claim for up to £500 of staff time to help them participate in the programme.Click here to find out...
On the 28th May, hundreds of young activist and period campaigners took to the streets of Westminster to raise awareness of the 148,675,312 lessons that are being missed every year due to a lack of access to period products and the shame surrounding periods in schools as part of the Every Period Counts campaign's Period...
Young activists across the UK have come together to campaign to make period dignity a reality in schoolsA third of young girls are missing school due to a lack of care or access to period products - that’s over 3.5 million days missed every year Nearly half of all school girls are struggling to access period...
Are you passionate about period equality? Are you unhappy with the slow progress toward period dignity for all in UK schools? Do you want to gain experience of designing and delivering a national advocacy campaign whilst creating lasting change?If you’re under 30 and have/have had/will have experience of menstruation and/or have experience trying to end...
On 16th October 22 we brought together young people and their allies to plan their next big campaign for Period Justice in the UK.A masssive thank you to The Blagrave Trust for helping to make this happen.View the agenda and line-up for the eventView a write-up of the eventView a short video featuring interviews with...
From our Period Positive schools programme keeping girls in class in Uganda to our Empower Period initiative supporting peer-led action to tackle period poverty in the UK- we couldn't do it without your support.Click below to access updates from our CEO on our work in the UK and East Africa so far this year.An update from...
We welcome and applaud the explicit acknowledgement of the reality that the UK’s health and care system has been designed “by men, for men”. We also celebrate the important step forward that having a dedicated strategy for Women’s Health in England represents.We particularly welcome the commitments to invest more in research and evidence and to...
