According to the research conducted by The Hygiene Bank in 2025, some 8.7 million adults have missed work and 1 in 10 children have skipped school because of hygiene poverty.

It’s National Hygiene Week (6^th – 12^th October), an event founded by The Hygiene Bank to raise awareness about hygiene poverty. This year, The Hygiene Bank is diligently raising awareness of hygiene poverty in the UK and the importance of access to basic hygiene essentials.

Hygiene poverty is a scenario when an individual has to choose between feeding their family or buying shampoo to go to work with clean hair, or between paying rent or buying laundry detergent to send their child to school with a clean uniform. Hygiene poverty is forcing far too many families to make heartbreaking decisions between feeding themselves, staying warm or maintaining basic cleanliness.

To tackle hygiene poverty, In-Kind Direct, a charity founded by King Charles III, and The Hygiene Bank, a UK-based organisation, are working in partnership to deliver a practical roadmap aimed at ending hygiene poverty by 2030.

Every small act makes a big difference – Click Here to see how you can get involved