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About TEES Community

TEES support thousands of people a month living in the Tees Valley region, with access to FREE period and incontinence products, clothing, referrals, food, warm hub, bedding, cafe pay it forward scheme, Christmas presents, etc. We do this in partnership with Hey Girls, Teesside at Christmas, Feeding Families & In Kind Direct.


We are a small team of 6 paid staff and 12 volunteers, running 9 projects from our Hub. TEES support anyone in our area living in any financial, emotional, vulnerability or isolation crisis.

How we started

TEES CIO started a period poverty campaign in 2018 to support people across the borough with FREE access to period products. We placed donation points across the region to gain access to products donated to Tees Period Poverty Campaign TPP from the public.


We researched at great length the provision in place in the UK and Internationally, TPP then contacted all the major players in the UK to discuss a partnership or support in mirroring the campaigns already established.

Supporting TEES

After consultation with the founders of The Red Box Project, Plan International and Bloody Good Period, TPP asked Tina Leslie MBE the founder of Freedom4girls to support TPP in setting up and liaising on TPP.


All the above are members of the Governments Taskforce initiative on Period Poverty. TEES then contacted Celia Hodson Founder of Hey Girls to ask to become a donation partner of theirs. We are also an ally of Irise who are lobbying the central government on policy relating to period poverty.

We support thousands of individuals every month in period poverty across Teesside

The knowledge and support of Tina and Celia gave us the tools we needed to roll out TPP in weeks. We currently support thousand of people every month and gave away the cash equivalent of over £98,000 of FREE products from Jan 2023 to Jan 2024. This campaign was funded and supported by Redcar & Cleveland Council.

Tees Community Hub

Here we discuss what Tees Community Hub is all about and about the things we do for our local community

Why people believe in us

"Brilliant team and organisation that have helped an individual in need today with clothing and household items! Thank you"

"Absolutley lovely and amazing team of people I will be forever grateful for the help they gave my friend thank you so much"

"They are amazing they help you out if you need it excellent service I highly recommend them"

"I've used this charity on a personal and professional basis during the last 18 months. I can honestly say you change people's lives"

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