Meet Our Fantastic team

Tina
Tina is a sports massage therapist in a private multidisciplinary clinic in Sussex. Helped found the charity in 2024

Matt
Matt works for a pharmaceutical consultancy company and helped found the charity in 2024

Amy
Amy coaches cricket in a secondary school and also plays cricket for Surrey. Helped found the charity in 2024

Beth
Beth currently works as a physiotherapist for the NHS in Cheshire and helped found the charity in 2024

Beatrice
Beatrice is our amazing Ambassador in Kenya, who drops off the products and is trying ti defeat the Stigma around Periods
I travelled with Amy, Beth, and Tina to Kenya in 2024, and quickly realised that period poverty was playing a huge role in keeping girls out of school. I also figured that it would be a fairly easy area to make a big difference to a small number of people, and set out to work out how to do it.
Since then, Pad Up has grown to support hundreds of schoolgirls every month, and I am so proud of the work the whole team has done to get there - and of course, to Beatrice for distribution and to everyone who has donated for helping us achieve this small win.
Thank you!

Matt
Matt works for a pharmaceutical consultancy company and helped found the charity in 2024

Amy
Amy coaches cricket in a secondary school and also plays cricket for Surrey. Helped found the charity in 2024
After signing up to go to Kenya in 2024 with cricket without boundaries with Matt, Tina, Beth and a few other amazing people we quickly realised how period poverty played a crucial role in keeping girls out of school. While we were out their we provided sanitary towels to the schools we went into. Towards the end of the trip we decided we wanted to do more, rather than only providing help as a one off! Matt put some research together to work out how we went about becoming an official charity and now here we are… Pad Up was born!
Our passion for this project only grows. I’m so proud to be apart of this team, trying to tackle period poverty out in Kenya. Our ambassador Beatrice is doing a phenomenal job completing the ‘drops’ monthly and updating us on the girls attendance increasing!
Following meeting some incredible women and girls in Kenya, being involved in Pad Up was something I had to do. Hearing stories of girls missing school due to their period each month was difficult and heartbreaking, as it is something most people in the UK take for granted. Also evident was the stigma around periods.
Listening to our local ambassador Beatrice speak so openly about periods, and encouraging the girls to be proud of their period and of being women was truly imprirational. Following this being involved in Pad Up was a no brainer to help try and reduce the number of girls missing school due to periods as well as reduce the sigma surrounding periods.

Beth
Beth currently works as a physiotherapist for the NHS in Cheshire and helped found the charity in 2024

Tina
Tina is a sports massage therapist in a private multidisciplinary clinic in Sussex. Helped found the charity in 2024
Whilst visiting Kenya in February with the Charity Cricket Without Boundaries, I expected to deliver education around Aids awareness and gender equality through cricket. I was therefore surprised and, realising extremely ignorant, when we provided 13 huge commercial boxes of sanitary towels to young girls in 2 schools.
We were allowed an audience and discussion with the girls asking them to try not to being ashamed when their cycle happens and also to how to use the pads. These girls miss 3 days of school a month which is not only detrimental to their education but also very embarrassing for them when they go back into school as everyone knows why they have been off. The stigma around their monthly cycle is still very negative in Kenya.
I was not alone in my feelings, the team with me were also unaware of the problem, deeply shocked and saddened by the situation. Especially they young girls in the team. We all know unfortunately poverty exists in the world but until you are faced with it directly one sometimes feels ‘well what can WE do about it.” Nothing really is often the answer..