Girlguiding have teamed up with Plan International UK to offer their Period Proud
Peers programme to Guide and Ranger units in Girlguding Cymru.

We’re looking for Guide and Ranger leaders who can support their young leaders and Rangers to become Period Proud Peers. These young leaders and Rangers will then deliver period related activities in their units and help to make their unit a period proud environment!

Find out more and register for our leader workshop below.

The Period Proud Peers programme aims to help young people learn more about periods and have open and honest conversations about them.

It does this by recruiting young people to become Period Proud Peers, who lead fun period-related activities with their friends. In Girlguiding, this would be others in their units.

Who can be a Period Proud Peer?

A Period Proud Peer is someone aged 13-19 who is supported to plan and run the period related activities for others in their unit. This could be a young leader in a Guide unit, or 1 or 2 Rangers who want to run the activities for the other Rangers in their unit. If you don’t have young leaders in your Guide unit, then older Guides (aged 13+) could also become Period Peers and run the activities instead.

There is a Period Peers handbook which they will be given with all the information needed to run the activities.

How long will the activities take to do?

There are 5 activities in the handbook, and the suggestion is that the Period Peers pick 3 to run. They could run all 3 activities together in 1 evening (each activity will take about 30 minutes) or they could choose to spread the activities out over a couple of meetings, if it’s a topic that your unit would like to engage with more.

Do we have to do anything after completing the activities?

At the end of the Period Peer’s session, you’ll need to support the members of your unit to complete a short anonymous survey from Plan International UK about their experience. This can be completed online by scanning the QR code in the letter with the handbook, or you can ask girls to complete the paper forms and then upload or return them. This data will be shared with Plan International UK, to help them evaluate the success of the programme.

Once the Period Peer has run the activities in your unit, you’ll need to let the peer education team at HQ know how many members took part in the session. We’d also encouraged you to do some follow-up activities such as having a period party and inviting friends or relatives or running a community event to reach more people.

Becoming a Period Proud Environment

A period proud environment is somewhere that supports girls and young people to manage their periods with confidence and reduces period shame and stigma. As part of the programme, you’ll be sent a Period Proud Environment checklist with some ideas of what you can do within your units.