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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 Oswestry, SY11 2NU
  • Auction Yard Toilets, Station Street
  • Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, SY9 5BG
  • Castle Hotel, Bishops Castle, SY9 5BN
  • Enterprise House, Station Street, SY9 5AG
  • Herbies Café, New Street, SY9 5DQ
  • Hollinswood Neighbourhood Centre, TF3 2EW
  • Lincoln City Football Ground, LN5 8LD
  • Meeting Point House, Telford, TF3 4HS
  • Qube, Oswald Road, Oswestry, SY11 1RB
  • Randlay Community Centre, TF3 2NJ
  • Shropshire Chamber, Telford, TF3 3BA
  • Stirchley Medical Practice, Telford, TF3 1FB
  • The Happy Bap, 39 High Street, SY9 5BE
  • The Poetry Pharmacy, 36 High Street, SY9 5BQ
  • The Poppy House, 20 Market Street, SY9 5BN
  • Woodside Medical Practice, TF7 5NR

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.