Access to free period products
You can find free period pads, tampons and Mooncups all around campus. Take what you need, when you need it.
What is provided
To address concerns surrounding the environmental impact of conventional period products, we provide the following sustainable solutions:
- reusable menstrual cups from Mooncup
- organic, biodegradable pads and tampons from TOTM and Hey Girls
Please note that the home delivery option from Hey Girls has now stopped.
Where to find free period products at the University
The map and table below show places across the University where you can collect free products.
Clicking on each location will give more information on where you can access the products in each building.
The map and table are updated as more supply points are added.
Locations map
Locations listing
| Name of College/school/organisation/department | Building | Location of products |
|---|---|---|
| Advice Place, Edinburgh University Students' Association |
Potterrow at Bristo Square |
Signage in the office directs to a supply point, accessible during opening hours |
| Advice Place, Edinburgh University Students' Association | King's Buildings House | Signage in the office directs to a supply point, accessible during opening hours |
| Bedlam Theatre | 11b Bristo Place | Main toilets |
| Biological sciences |
Ashworth Laboratories |
You can pick up free products by the door to First Aid room G.Z4AM, on the stairwell between ground and first floors |
|
Daniel Rutherford Building |
Area outside B76- lower ground floor near teaching labs | |
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Roger Land Building |
Area to the right hand side of door GZ03 |
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Biomedical Teaching Organisation |
Building 113, Doorway 3, Old Medical School | Accessible toilet on the first floor, 1.Z46, and accessible toilet on the ground floor, G.Z24 |
| Business School | 29 Buccleuch Place |
Rooms LG.Z07 and GF.Z06 |
| Centre for Cell Biology |
Swann Building |
Toilet area to rear of servitor’s service desk |
| Chemistry |
Christina Miller Building |
Toilets 0MZ03 and 01MZ03 |
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Joseph Black Building |
Toilets in the basement, BZ19, and on the ground floor, GZ48 | |
| Computing labs |
Hugh Robson Building |
Room GZ13 |
| Divinity | New College | In the female toilets on the ground floor in the main building |
| Edinburgh BioQuarter | Centre for Regenerative Medicine | 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU |
| Edinburgh College of Art | Hunter Building, Lauriston Place | Behind the Hunter Building reception |
| Evolution House, Lauriston Place | Room 1.07 | |
| Main Building, Lauriston Place | Room C52B | |
| Hunter Building, Lauriston Place | Room 039A | |
| Education/Centre for Open Learning | Paterson's Land, Holyrood | Near the Centre for Open Learning reception, on the ground floor |
| Edinburgh Dental Institute | Lauriston Building |
Toilets 7063 and 7019 |
| Edinburgh Medical School | Chancellor's Building | All toilets |
| Edinburgh Medical School | Medical education Centre, Western General Hospital | All toilets |
| Geosciences | Old Infirmary | In female toilets in basement |
| Geosciences | Grant Institute, King's Buildings | In female toilets on first floor |
| Health and Wellbeing Centre | 7 Bristo Square | After sliding door on ground floor, The Pharmacy, various toilets |
| Health in Social Science | Medical School, Doorway 6, Teviot Place | In female toilets on second floor, and gender neutral toilets on first mezzanine |
| History, Classics and Archaeology | Medical School Quad |
In toilets on floors 3, 2, 1M, Ground and outside Room G.06. of the William Robertson Wing (doorway 4) |
| Informatics | Appleton Tower | On Levels 4 and 6 |
| Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities | 2 Hope Park Square | Room 18, first floor |
| Institute for Regeneration & Repair, Centre for Regenerative Medicine | Edinburgh BioQuarter | |
| Literatures, Languages and Cultures | 50 George Square | In the Student Support Office waiting area, outside room 1.10. |
| Libraries | Law Library, Old College |
In the lower ground floor accessible toilet (LG.Z15) and also in the mezzanine toilet (00M.Z157). |
| Main Library |
Lower ground floor (female toilet, central) Ground floor (gender neutral toilet, east side) 1st floor (female toilet, central) 2nd floor (female toilet, central) 3rd floor (female toilet, west side) 4th floor (female toilet, west side) |
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| Moray House Library | Ground floor, female toilet | |
| Murray Library | 1st and 2nd floor female toilets | |
| Vet Library | 1st floor female toilet | |
| Maths | James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings |
Accessible toilet opposite room 6223 Female toilets, 5th floor, opposite 5321 |
| Pharmacy | Health & Wellbeing Centre, Bristo Square | Inside Pharmacy |
| Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences | Dugald Stewart Building | All toilets |
| Physics and Astronomy | James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings | In accessible toilet opposite room 4318 |
| Pollock Halls | Reception Centre | A supply point is available via the back of the Reception Centre |
| Royal Observatory Edinburgh; IFA building | Blackford Hill | Female and accessible toilets |
| Reid Concert Hall | Bristo Square | In ladies and universal toilets |
| Science and Engineering | Crew Building | In gender neutral toilets: G.Z4, 1.Z4 |
| Fleeming Jenkins building | Female toilet on ground floor, opposite the Engineers’ Hub | |
| Murchison House |
Level 1 toilet |
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| Social and Political Science |
Chrystal MacMillan Building |
G.Z22 (gender-neutral accessible toilet on the GF, behind the café) G.Z09 (gender-neutral accessible toilet on the GF, in Stairwell #2) |
| Sport and Exercise | Peffermill Playing Fields | First Aid Room (unlocked and accessible to all) |
| Sport and Exercise | Pleasance Sports Complex | In changing rooms |
| Student Systems and Administration | Student Information Point, Old College | A supply point is available to right when you enter the Student Information Point |
| Students' Association | Potterow | Outside male and female toilets on lower ground floor |
| Teviot Row House | Downstairs in left-hand stairwell outside toilets and in gender-neutral toilets next to Dining Room | |
| Veterinary Science | Roslin Building, Easter Bush campus | Outside room G.006 |
| Veterinary Science | Main Building | In the common room - room G.52, next to the catering facilities |
Free period products initiative
This is part of a Scottish Government initiative to provide access to free period products for students in schools, colleges and universities.
The aim is to support equality, dignity and rights for those who menstruate and to ensure that lack of access to products does not impact on an individual’s ability to fully participate in education at all levels.
Queries and feedback
If you have any queries about the initiative, or any positive or negative feedback on how it works for you, we would like to hear from you.
Email periodproducts@ed.ac.uk