Free Period Products Consultation Summary

Best place to access products

Question 2 focussed on the best place to get period products from. 

A graph showing the total number of responses for each answer choice and the percentage of responses for each choice.

395 answers were provided to this question, with 0 skipped.

  • 85.82% selected ‘order online for postal delivery’ which was the most preferred option (339 responses in total). 
  • 67.59% chose health centres which was the second most popular choice (267 responses in total). 
  • 55.19% thought leisure centres would be the best place to get period products from (218 responses in total). 
  • 45.06% chose community venues (178 responses in total). 
  • 39.49% chose foodbanks (156 responses in total). 
  • 35.19% said council buildings would be the best place to get free period products from (139 responses in total). 
  • 34.18% chose order by phone for postal delivery (135 responses in total).
  • 12.15% said ‘other’ (48 responses in total).

Where ‘other’ was selected - public toilets, supermarkets and shops, workplaces and chemists and pharmacies were the most frequently referred to (other than schools where period products are already provided).