Period Promise 2026 Count

Last Updated: March 16, 2026

About Period Promise

Menstruation products are a basic necessity. But if you’re living in poverty – or vulnerable in other ways – access to tampons, pads, cups, or period underwear can be challenging. 

With the cost of living on the rise, the priority of food, housing or bills overtakes that of menstrual products. In fact, menstrual hygiene products are one of the most requested, yet least donated items at food banks. Understandably, low-income individuals find it difficult to budget for this monthly expense. Many simply cannot afford them.

Inaccessible menstrual products translate to isolation, mental stress, sick days, and missed opportunities.

United Way makes period products accessible so community members don’t have to face the pressures that come with a lack of safe products. Period product and financial donations are collected and items are provided to community partners, food banks, and local agencies across Peterborough City and County.

The tenth annual Period Promise campaign (formerly Tampon Tuesday) is just getting started, and will wrap up in mid-March 2026.

Please drop off product at our office (277 Stewart Street) between now and March 13, 2026.
Monday to Friday, 9:00AM – 5:00PM

 

Other Drop Off Locations:

KWIC’s International Women’s Day 2026 Rally & Community Event
Saturday March 7
with drop off outside City Hall at 11:30AM before the march,
or at the Peterborough Public Library from 12:30PM – 3:30PM. 

The Tiffany Show’s International Women’s Day Party
Sunday March 8
at The Venue
(doors open at 10AM for the 11AM-2PM event).

The Red Tent
Saturday March 14
from 8AM-1PM at the Peterborough Regional Farmers’ Market
(Lower Level of Peterborough Square, 340 George Street North)
with thanks to Heather Litster of Moon & Bloom.

City Hall
Until March 13
500 George St. N.
Monday to Friday, 8:30AM – 4:30PM

Miskin Law Community Complex
Until March 13
271 Lansdowne St. W.
Monday to Sunday, 6:00AM – 11:00PM  

Peterborough Public Library
Until March 13
345 Aylmer St. North
Monday to Friday, 10:00AM – 7:00PM, and Saturday & Sunday, 10:00AM – 5:00PM

FREE Period Promise Workshop
Monday March 16 at 10:00AM
United Way Peterborough & District Office, 277 Stewart Street

RSVP Required

Heather Litster (@heatherlitster__) founder of Moon and Bloom, and host of the Community Red Tent will teach Body Literacy Basics during our Period Promise workshop. She will dive into the menstrual health foundations that many folks were not taught in school. This informal workshop welcomes all ages and genders and will cover the anatomy of the uterus, how different period products work, what hormones are at play during menstruation and menopause and how those hormones impact mental & physical health. You can expect to leave this juicy workshop with actionable tools for cyclical compassion and a better understanding of the menstruating body’s functions.

Meagan Vaughan is the Women & HIV/AIDS Initiative (WHAI) Coordinator at Peterborough AIDS Resource Network (PARN). Meagan works with cis and trans women, and gender diverse community members who are living with HIV/AIDS and those who are at risk of acquiring HIV to build community capacity of addressing stigma, discrimination and accessibility of services with local service providers and the community at large. Through her work with women experiencing unique vulnerabilities relating to homelessness, substance use, newcomer status in Canada, and Indigenous identity, Meagan will discuss issues surrounding period poverty and inadequate access to personal wellness and hygiene necessities and ways that we as a community can work together to combat this.

If you’d like to get more involved with our 2026 Period Promise campaign, please do not hesitate to reach out! We’d be happy to help you setup a collection at your workplace, share educational resources, or chat about any other ideas you may have.

Join us and tell every person their basic needs matter, PERIOD.

Special thanks to Peterborough & District Labour Council, Kawartha Food Share, and kawarthaNOW for their support of this year’s Period Promise campaign.

For more information, please contact:

Elisha Rubacha – Community Impact Officer
Desk: 705-742-8839 x 33
Email: erubacha@uwpeterborough.ca