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Bins For Boys

What is Bins for Boys?

Incontinence can be a side effect of cancer and cancer treatment, for example men with prostate cancer can experience bladder and bowel problems following treatment. In the UK, about 1 in 3 men over 65 experience urinary incontinence issues, while 1 in 20 men aged 60 + experience bowel incontinence. (CRUK)

Lack of sanitary bins in male toilets in public places affects men who need to wear pads, pouches, stomas, catheters, colostomy or ileostomy bags.

Outside their home, men with incontinence need to be able to dispose of their sanitary waste in the places they visit, such as cafes/ pubs and public toilets. Women are used to being able to find sanitary bins in such community venues, but it can be a real problem for men. We know many men fear being unable to find a toilet with sanitary bins make them anxious, worried and humiliated. It can stop them leaving their homes to enjoy every day activities like enjoying a pub meal with friends, or a cup coffee in a local café.

What are we trying to achieve?

The solution is simple:

  • Community venues can provide sanitary bins in their men’s toilets.
  • Men who need sanitary bins need to know where to find them.

Bins for Boys Shropshire, Telford and Mid Wales aims to make this happen. We aim to create Bins for Boys venues, encouraging our pubs, restaurants, cafes, leisure centres, workplaces – any community venue with customer toilets to commit to providing a sanitary bin in their male toilets. We promote Bins for Boys venues, helping men who need them to find them.

Our First Bins for Boys Town.

Venues in Bishops Castle are the first to become Bins for Boys venues. In fact, so many venues have joined our campaign, we can declare Bishops Castle our first Bins for Boys town.

 

How do I find a Bins for Boys venue?

Look for our Bins for Boys stickers at venue entrances, toilet doors, cubicles, and on the bins themselves. You can find Bins for Boys venues in Bishops Castle here:

  • Approved Care and Support
  • Bishops Castle Town Hall Trust
  • Castle Hotel
  • Charlton Medical Centre
  • Clun Memorial Hall and Playing Fields
  • Community Resource
  • Cross Street Public Conveniences, Ellesmere
  • Ellesmere Town Hall, Disabled Toilets
  • Enterprise House Bishops Castle
  • Halls Bishops Castle Auction Centre
  • Happy Bap
  • Herbie’s
  • Hollinswood Community Centre
  • Ludlow Kitchen
  • Meeting Point House
  • Poetry Pharmacy
  • Pontesbury Parish Council, Public Toilets
  • Qube Oswestry
  • Randlay Community Centre Hollinswood and Randlay Parish Council
  • Shifnal Public Toilets Market Place
  • Stirchley Medical Practice
  • The Bracken Trust
  • The Clive Arms, Bromfield Ludlow
  • The Poppy House
  • The Woodside Medical Practice

If your favourite pub or café isn’t yet a Bins for Boys venue, you can ask them if they’d like to join. Your local town council can become a Bins for Boys council too. Just direct them to this website.

Feedback. Sharing stories of how Bins for Boys venues have helped men with continence issues get out and about  can help us encourage more venues to get involved with our campaign.  If you have visited and benefited from visiting a Bins for Boys venue, please do share your experience with us. Email us: [email protected]

How to become a Bins for Boys venue?

Becoming a Bins for Boys venue isn’t complicated.  Any venue can become a Bins for Boys premises – or a whole town or village could decide to become one. Complete the enquiry form below and we will send you the implementation guide for becoming a Bins for Boys venue.

Become a Bins for Boys Venue

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Bins for Boys Locations

The go to town in Shropshire right now is the Bishop’s Castle – Use the + or – symbols to zoom into the sunny icons on the map and click to get more details.