Argyll and Bute Council

How Argyll & Bute Council partnered with Hey Girls...

Argyll & Bute Council has worked with Hey Girls for a number of years, making products available in more than 100 locations across the council area.

‘The Period Products Act’ was a historic moment for Scotland and has opened the doors to partnerships with local authorities across the country, but Argyll & Bute are one of those who took the leap to partner with Hey Girls before the law was passed. Argyll & Bute Council serves more than 86,200 residents both on the mainland and a series of islands in Scotland.

The need…

The council had planned an initiative to provide period products to residents and found Hey Girls ticked all the boxes in terms of their environmental and social ethos. Hey Girls’ “Buy One, Donate One” model aligned perfectly with the council, who want to improve access to quality period products for those in rural and deprived areas.

The council received more than 150 orders in less than a month, with anyone with a postal address in the council area able to make an order through Hey Girls - making for a more time efficient way to distribute orders directly to those in need.

Hey Girls is one of those gems that genuinely care about the people they help.

The roll out of the free period product initiative is a difficult one, purely in that no one in the world has ever done it before! Having Hey Girls there to bat ideas off and get knowledge from was completely and utterly invaluable.

Amy Bruce ‘My Tribe’ Project Lead