Many people locked in poverty or those who find themselves in times of crisis often experience restricted options. This leaves them caught between being able to heat their home, pay their rent, buy food or keep clean. Hygiene poverty can be shaming, humiliating, and excluding and can result in social isolation.
It can lead to a lack of confidence and can negatively affect good health and mental well-being which can impact early childhood development, learning, employability, and social interaction.
Tenby now has a Hygiene Bank. The Hygiene Bank is a national charity who believe it is not right that feeling clean should be a luxury or a privilege for anyone in our society, yet many are living in poverty and cannot afford to stay clean. That is why their network of projects exists – to give people access to the basics they need.
Tenby Hygiene Bank collects new, unused, in-date personal care and household cleaning essentials - including deodorant, shower gel, shampoo, make-up, nappies, toilet roll, laundry detergent and surface cleaner. If you need them and use them, then it is likely someone else needs and uses them too.
Items can be dropped off at Boots in High St, Tenby Post Office, the Seafront Pharmacy or the Glen Pharmacy – thank you to these businesses for agreeing to be collection points. Look out for a collection box as modelled by our mystery person in the photo. Volunteers will regularly pick up the donations and take them to the Old Chapel for PATCH or them to distribute to people who need them.
Tenby Hygiene Bank collection points expand.
Many people locked in poverty or those who find themselves in times of crisis often experience restricted options. This leaves them caught between being able to heat their home, pay their rent, buy food or keep clean. Hygiene poverty can be shaming, humiliating, and excluding and can result in social isolation.
It can lead to a lack of confidence and can negatively affect good health and mental well-being which can impact early childhood development, learning, employability, and social interaction.
Tenby now has a Hygiene Bank. The Hygiene Bank is a national charity who believe it is not right that feeling clean should be a luxury or a privilege for anyone in our society, yet many are living in poverty and cannot afford to stay clean. That is why their network of projects exists – to give people access to the basics they need.
Tenby Hygiene Bank collects new, unused, in-date personal care and household cleaning essentials - including deodorant, shower gel, shampoo, make-up, nappies, toilet roll, laundry detergent and surface cleaner. If you need them and use them, then it is likely someone else needs and uses them too.
Items can be dropped off at Boots in High St, Tenby Post Office, the Seafront Pharmacy or the Glen Pharmacy – thank you to these businesses for agreeing to be collection points. Look out for a collection box as modelled by our mystery person in the photo. Volunteers will regularly pick up the donations and take them to the Old Chapel for PATCH or them to distribute to people who need them.