{"id":351573,"date":"2026-01-04T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351573\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:38:08","slug":"third-of-londoners-suffer-hygiene-poverty-says-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351573\/","title":{"rendered":"Third of Londoners suffer hygiene poverty, says charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Almost a third of Londoners aged 16 to 55 cannot afford basic hygiene products, leaving them unable to live normally, a charity has warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to research from the Hygiene Bank, about three out of 10 women in  London have had to choose between buying enough food or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-68630920\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hygiene products<\/a>, and some have missed job interviews or work because of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been described as a &#8220;scandal that shouldn&#8217;t exist&#8221; by charity In Kind Direct which is campaigning with the Hygiene Bank to end it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan said he was &#8220;determined to do all he can to support Londoners in the cost of living crisis&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost a third of Londoners aged 16 to 55 cannot afford basic hygiene products, leaving them unable to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-351573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}