Purple Box Location – Newbattle Library

You can pick up period products for free, and also donate products for others, at the Purple Box in Newbattle Library. The Library is part of the new Newbattle Community Campus Centre between Mayfield and Easthouses - Newbattle Way, EH22 4SX The library space is accessible whenever the centre is open, 7 days a week including…

Purple Box Location – Lasswade Library

You can access free period products and also donate them in Lasswade Library, which is on Eskdale Drive, Bonnyrigg. The library is open every week day, including a number of evenings and also at weekends. See Midlothian Council website for more details. See Lasswade library on a map See all locations Map

Press Release 16th July 2018

More places for Midlothian women to get free sanitary products Women for Independence (WFI) Midlothian has extended the Purple Box campaign to make free sanitary products available in 5 locations. Gorebridge, Penicuik and Loanhead libraries now host a Purple Box, as well as the original locations of Newtongrange and Dalkeith libraries. At Loanhead library, the Box…

Welcoming the Scottish Government’s period poverty plans – with a plea for the environment

We are very pleased to see the news that the Scottish government plans to make sanitary products available to women on low incomes across Scotland. Following a pilot in Aberdeen, a charity has been tasked with rolling the programme out across Scotland and expects to help up to 18,000 women. Naturally we are thrilled that…

Now we are 4! Free sanitary products now in 4 Midlothian locations

Women for Indpendence Midlothian is very pleased to now have 4 public locations where women in need of support can pick up period products for free. These are at the libraries in: Gorebridge, Penicuik, Dalkeith and Newtongrange. If you wish to help the project, please drop in tampons, towels, menstrual cups etc. to your local…