Big Issue highlights work of charity dealing with hygiene poverty
Harpenden Hygiene Bank staff and volunteers pack products for distribution(Exposure Photo Agency/PA)
The Big Issue is teaming up with a charity tackling hygiene poverty in a bid to raise awareness of its work.
This week’s issue of the magazine will feature a special supplement on the Hygiene Bank, which warns that many people have to choose between eating and keeping clean.
The cover of this week’s Big Issue magazine, which features a special supplement on the Hygiene Bank (Alternative Aesthetics/PA)
The charity was set up in 2018 by Lizzy Hall after she was moved by watching the depiction of a mother who could not afford hygiene products in the Ken Loach film I, Daniel Blake.