Reports and Research

We believe everyone deserves access to life’s essentials. Throughout 2024, In Kind Direct stepped up to deliver even more support to our charitable network and their local communities. We also commissioned new research to deepen our understanding of hygiene poverty, informing brand new initiatives that increased awareness of hygiene poverty, reduced stigma and secured more product to those who need it.

Our latest research, A Clean Start in Life, found that 1.1 million GB children are living in hygiene poverty and 845,000 children are missing school because they can’t keep clean. Bringing together polling and findings from engagement sessions, this report explores the experience of hygiene poverty and how to tackle it through the eyes of children and young people.

Using national polling data and insights from our charitable network, our spring briefing provides an overview on hygiene poverty in the UK in early 2025.  

Trustee Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2023.

Using national polling data and insights from our charitable network, our spring briefing provides an overview on hygiene poverty in the UK in early 2024.  

This document sets out six priority areas and four asks for the next Government to ensure everyone has access to life’s essentials to live well.

Through surveys and interviews, our research brings together the opinions and experiences of more than 5,000 people across the UK to reveal lifelong cycles of exclusion caused by period inequity, starting at school, continuing into the workplace and beyond.

We believe everyone deserves access to life’s essentials. Throughout 2023, In Kind Direct stepped up to deliver even more support to our charitable network and their local communities. We also commissioned new research to deepen our understanding of hygiene poverty, informing brand new initiatives that increased awareness of hygiene poverty, reduced stigma and secured more product to those who need it.