Free Period Products Available for GCU Students

You can now order free period products to be sent to your home. 

Please be aware that due to high demand and the challenging conditions due to Covid-19 your products may take up to a month to arrive from ordering.

GCU Students are able to collect free period products (including re-usable and sustainable options such as reusable cloth pads and menstrual cups) from GCU Students’ Association.

The provision is a partnership approach from both your University and the Students’ Association.

The products are located:

• In the female and accessible toilets in levels 1 and 0 of the Students’ Association Building.
• on all levels of the Library.
• Reusable options (sets of washable pads and menstrual cups) are available from the Students Advisers in our Advice Centre (drop in Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm).

The BBC has a video explaining how to use a menstrual cup safely.

The introduction of free period products for GCU Students has been available since March 2018, as part of a campaign from the Students’ Association in partnership with the University.

You can find out more about the campaign work in the following articles:

• Sanitary Products: A Basic Human Right (29-09-2017)
• FREE Sanitary Products on Campus! (20-12-2017)
• Free Sanitary Products! (10-04-2018)
• Sanitary Products Campaign Update (30-04-2018)
• Free Sanitary Products (01-10-2018)