SOME might see it as typically dainty or fancy, but Tamworth's next high tea is all about talking taboo and smashing stigma.
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Tamworth women Julie Fleck and Kimberley Nagle are hosting twin Share the Dignity events next month.
It begins with a high tea at Hopscotch on May 26, world menstrual hygiene day.
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Every ticket sold for the high tea will raise $20 for Share the Dignity, a charity which collects thousands of pads, tampons and personal hygiene products every year for women experiencing homelessness and poverty.
It recently installed a free sanitary vending machine in Coledale.
Ms Fleck said it was important to get the conversations started.
She said it was still largely a taboo topic but it was affecting people in the community who were making the choice "between feeding themselves and their children and their own hygiene".
There will also be a soap making workshop on May 31 at Splash on Peel. People can register for the events online.
A donation bin will be at each event collecting sanitary products to be distributed in the community.