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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 (Cancer Research UK). Here is where the ‘Bins for Boys’ programme comes in.

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 were the first to become Bins for Boys venues. In fact, so many venues joined our campaign, we can declare Bishops Castle our first Bins for Boys town. We now want to turn our whole region into Bins for Boys supporters!

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 the venues here:

  • ANTA Education Ltd, Telford
  • Approved Care and Support, Oswestry
  • Bishops Castle Town Hall Trust
  • Castle Hotel, Bishops Castle
  • Cedo Ltd, Halesfield, Telford (not open to the public – just visitors)
  • Charlton Medical Centre, Telford
  • Clun Memorial Hall and Playing Fields
  • Community Resource, Shrewsbury
  • The Crazy Cow Cafe and Bar, Oswestry
  • Cross Street Public Conveniences, Ellesmere
  • Ellesmere Town Hall, Disabled Toilets
  • Enterprise House, Bishops Castle
  • Halls Bishops Castle Auction Centre
  • Happy Bap, Bishops Castle
  • Herbie’s, Bishops Castle
  • Hollinswood Community Centre
  • Lilleshall National Sports Centre
  • Ludlow Kitchen, Ludlow
  • Maldwyn Leisure Centre, Newtown, Powys
  • Meeting Point House, Telford
  • Newcourt Community Centre, Exete
  • Onibury Village Hall
  • Poetry Pharmacy, Bishops Castle
  • Pontesbury Parish Council, Public Toilets
  • Public Toilets, Stafford Street Car Park, Newport
  • Qube, Oswestry
  • Randlay Community Centre Hollinswood and Randlay Parish Council
  • Severn Gorge Countryside Trust
  • Shifnal Public Toilets, Shifnal Market Place
  • Stirchley Medical Practice, Telford
  • The Apple Tree Pub, Onibury, Craven Arms
  • The Bracken Trust, Llandrindod Wells, Powys
  • The Clive Arms, Ludlow
  • The Poppy House, Bishops Castle
  • The White Horse Inn, Clun
  • The Woodside Medical Practice, Telford
  • Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury

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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