THE success continues for the Bolton News' campaign to collect sanitary product donations on behalf of The Red Box Project, an initiative tackling period poverty in 28 schools in Bolton.

Readers are rushing to the Bolton News offices to contribute spare boxes of tampons and pads after the launch of the donation box on International Women's Day earlier this month. The box was filled for the first time within hours and it has now been filled again just one week later.

The products will be distributed to 28 primary schools, secondary schools and alternative education settings in the borough, where teachers have reached out, asking for help with this issue.

Lucy Edge, the organiser of the Bolton branch of The Red Box Project, said: "There's been a massive demand for it. If more people know about it then demand can be met. The box in the office has done really well!"

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The donations are given to young women suffering from period poverty, who may not be able to afford the costly bill of period products each month, or those who are caught short while on their periods at school. Period poverty has been identified as a key cause of girls missing school or using unsuitable alternatives for sanitary products.

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The national campaign for free period products also won an unprecedented victory last week when Chancellor Philip Hammond announced the funding the provision of free sanitary products in secondary schools and colleges in England.

The collection continues at the Bolton News Wellsprings offices.

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