{"id":1217,"date":"2025-12-04T09:13:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:40:45","slug":"free-period-products-across-our-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/12\/04\/free-period-products-across-our-campuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Free period products across our campuses!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Together with Kent Students\u2019 Union, we\u2019ve increased access to free period products across our campuses. We\u2019ve installed new period product dispensers in key locations at our Canterbury campus in women\u2019s and gender-neutral facilities, to make sure they can be accessed by anyone who needs them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1218\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/files\/2025\/12\/Website_16x9-1.png\" alt=\"Map showing key locations including Templeman Library and Sports Centre\" width=\"1921\" height=\"1081\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have also installed new period product dispensers at the Medway campus in the Medway Building and The Hub.<\/p>\n<p>This project came directly from student feedback in the Cost of Living survey where students said they were buying fewer period products as they were worried about money. Period products are not a luxury, and we want to ensure all students can access these on campus whenever they need to.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1220\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/files\/2025\/12\/image00003.jpg\" alt=\"Period product dispenser with sticker &quot;Free period products. Here to support you&quot;\" width=\"284\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nTeslimah Bello, VP Welfare, International &amp; Communities said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work is part of a wider commitment to student wellbeing and inclusion, ensuring that everyone can focus on their studies and daily life without unnecessary stress or discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll continue working to secure more funding so this initiative can grow even further, and I&#8217;d really encourage you to use the products whenever you need to &#8211; that&#8217;s what they are there for.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any suggestions or feedback on how we can improve access further, please reach out to me at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:t.bello-650@kent.ac.uk\">t.bello-650@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1221\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/files\/2025\/12\/image00001.jpg\" alt=\"Teslimah holding sign saying &quot;free period products, here to support you&quot;\" width=\"301\" height=\"535\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See more ways we can support you on our <a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/cost-of-living-support\">Cost of Living Support webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Together with Kent Students\u2019 Union, we\u2019ve increased access to free period products across our campuses. We\u2019ve installed new period product dispensers in key locations at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/12\/04\/free-period-products-across-our-campuses\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40853,"featured_media":1226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,312216,183846,202865],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}