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Government announces recipients of final Tampon Tax Fund grants

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Fourteen charities supporting women and girls will receive a share of the final round of the government’s Tampon Tax Fund.
The Tampon Tax fund comes from the five per cent tax placed on period products. Picture: Adobe Stock
The Tampon Tax fund comes from the five per cent tax placed on period products. Picture: Adobe Stock

The UK-wide grants generated from five per cent VAT on period products will be invested in vital projects tackling issues facing women and girls, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has said.

Projects supporting women and girls who are victims of domestic abuse and rape and those empowering girls through sport are among those set to benefit from the final round of the fund worth £11.25m.

Over the last six years, the Tampon Tax Fund has awarded £79m to organisations, with the latest boost bringing the total to £90.25m.

The 14 projects to benefit include The Big Give Trust’s ‘Women and Girls Match Fund’, Tommy’s ‘Equality in miscarriage and pregnancy care’, Women in Sport’s ‘Big Sister’, St Giles Trust’s ‘Women Rising, Enabling Neighbourhoods’, The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief’s ‘STEP forward’ and the National Literacy Trust’s ‘Game Changers: Trailblazing Women’.

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