{"id":99,"date":"2024-10-22T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T10:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=99"},"modified":"2025-10-27T14:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:27:18","slug":"free-sanitary-products-available-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2024\/10\/22\/free-sanitary-products-available-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Free sanitary products available on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>** Update: 27 October 2025 &#8211; Together with Kent Students&#8217; Union, we&#8217;ve expanded our free period products on campus by introducing 15 new period product dispensers! That&#8217;s one less thing to worry about if your funds are running low. Look out for more information coming soon!\u00a0 **<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>15.9% of Kent students bought less sanitary products\u00a0over the past 12 months because they were worried about money, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ksu.co.uk\/news\/article\/cost-of-living-report-2023-2024#0\">2023-4 Cost of Living survey results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Period products are not a luxury, and we want to make it easier for you to access them. Find out where you can pick them up for free on campus:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Canterbury campus<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Thanks to the ResLife team and Kents\u2019 Students Union, you can now find free sanitary products in the following locations on campus:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bullet-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/maps\/canterbury\/canterbury-campus\/building\/mandela-building\/\">Mandela Student Centre<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 pick up individual pads or tampons<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/life\/living-on-campus\/housekeeping#laundry\">Campus laundry facilities in each College<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 pick up individual pads or tampons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/staff-student-news\/files\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-42.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36913\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/staff-student-news\/files\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-42.png\" alt=\"Free sanitary products from ResLife\" width=\"508\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/cost-of-living-support#taskforce\">Cost of Living Taskforce<\/a>\u00a0are looking at ways we can increase the number of free sanitary products available to students.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Medway campus<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>At Medway, you can pick up free sanitary products from the following location:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bullet-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/maps\/medway\/medway-campus\/building\/medway-student-hub\/\">Bathrooms in the Deep End, The Hub<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 pick up individual pads or tampons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/cost-of-living-support\">See more cost-of-living initiatives and support<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** Update: 27 October 2025 &#8211; Together with Kent Students&#8217; Union, we&#8217;ve expanded our free period products on campus by introducing 15 new period product &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2024\/10\/22\/free-sanitary-products-available-on-campus\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40853,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,312216,183846],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}