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Reflections from Coventry’s Need The Loo World Toilet Day Gathering On World Toilet Day, November 19th 2025, more than 30 people gathered at Central Methodist Hall to do something that rarely happens in public spaces: talk openly, honestly and creatively about toilets for the Need The Loo campaign's first ever gathering. “We need to talk about toilets as part of inclusion — not just for one group, but for everyone.” From Toilet Bingo to lived-experience storytelling to idea-s

Ruth Beaney is working with Coventry’s Need The Loo campaign to make public toilets more inclusive and stoma-friendly. Through Loo Crawls, community engagement, and World Toilet Day events, she’s turning conversations into real change across the city.

Could better toilet facilities make your business or workplace more welcoming, inclusive, and productive? Discover how Coventry’s Need The Loo campaign is helping businesses, employees, and customers with accessible toilets. Join the first Gathering on World Toilet Day, 19 November.

Celebrate Coventry’s best toilets! Nominate public or business toilets that are clean, accessible, stoma-friendly, and welcoming, and help highlight the importance of dignity and inclusion on World Toilet Day.

Toilet access is a basic human right — yet too many people in Coventry still struggle to find a safe, clean, and open loo when they need one. The Need The Loo campaign is standing up for dignity, inclusion, and change. Join us this World Toilet Day as we bring the community together to share stories, celebrate progress, and demand action for better public toilets in Coventry.

On 23rd May, members of the Need The Loo  campaign team, supported by Community Organiser Melissa, set up a stall at Earlsdon Park...

Recently, we’ve been hearing that men face specific challenges when using public toilets, particularly around accessibility and health-relat

Discover the work happening behind the scenes of the Need The Loo campaign as we strive to improve public toilet access in Coventry.

At Connecting for Good , we're all about driving positive change in Coventry. We are working with several amazing grassroots initiatives...

"55% of people we surveyed avoid using public toilets in Coventry City Centre unless it's an emergency."   Join the Need The Loo...

The Need The Loo team are on the lookout for people to help them achieve their goals for better public toilet provision in Coventry....

At the recent Collaboration Station the Need The Loo team had support from attendees to create the "Bog Standards" for Coventry's public toi

Hayley from PWC volunteered her time to map out the Coventry city centres public toilets.

The findings of a questionnaire about about public loos in Coventry City Centre has been launched today.