# Review Your Poo with The Gut Foundation

We have jumped on board as a sponsor of the New Zealand Gut Foundation's Review Your Poo campaign to help raise awareness around bowel cancer and gut health.

- **Published:** 27 April 2022
- **Type:** Event

Get to know your sh\*t with Hirepool and the [Gut Foundation.](https://www.thegut.org.nz/)

We have jumped on board as a sponsor of the New Zealand Gut Foundation's Review Your Poo campaign. Their goal is to raise awareness around bowel cancer, gut health and get Tradies and New Zealand families to keep a bowel movement log for a month.

The Review Your Poo campaign looks to encourage New Zealanders to get to know their normal bowel movements so they can better understand them, inform and possibly save their own life.

Along with some of our partners, we are supporting the year-long campaign by hosting and moving a Portaloo-turned-art piece around New Zealand. This started in April at Mercy Hospital in Dunedin. The portaloo was painted by artist [Jacob Yikes.](https://www.instagram.com/jacobyikes)

*Artist - Jacob Yikes*

Now, for the whole month of May, Hirepool is moving this colourful and display-only Portaloo from Christchurch to Auckland. It will be stopping at 11 branches along the way, allowing customers to interact, get educated and take creative photos with this artsy loo.

Keep track of the Portaloo’s journey across the country on our [social media](https://www.facebook.com/hirepool) or you can track it with the Gut Foundation [here](https://utrackgps.co.nz/?token=BjWy1sSahcKINFQ5Mt9XJBujIAQqOota&fbclid=IwAR1Yf3IZVMfZdd_aaAHxqOuf41Ms6f4tmZ6H4X03ABajrj9Du0if7LcecDU).

### The 11 branches it will be stopping at are:

- **May 1st - 3rd: [Christchurch](https://www.hirepool.co.nz/branches/moorhouse-ave.md)**
- **May 5th: [Blenheim](https://www.hirepool.co.nz/branches/blenheim.md)**
- **May 7th - 8th: [Wellington](https://www.hirepool.co.nz/branches/wellington-central.md)**
- **May 9th - 10th: [Wellington](https://www.hirepool.co.nz/branches/lower-hutt.md "LHT Lower Hutt")**
- **May 12th - 15th: [Palmerston North](https://www.hirepool.co.nz/branches/palmerston-north.md "PMN Palmerston North")**
- **May 17th - 18th: [Mt Maunganui](https://www.hirepool.co.nz/branches/mt-maunganui.md "MTM Mt Maunganui")**
- **May 20th: [Hamilton](https://www.hirepool.co.nz/branches/frankton.md "FRK Frankton")**
- **May 21st - 22nd: [Hamilton](https://www.hirepool.co.nz/branches/te-rapa.md) (Te Rapa)**
- **May 24th - 25th: [Manukau](https://www.hirepool.co.nz/branches/manukau-on-plunket-ave.md)**
- **May 26th - 27th: [Penrose](https://www.hirepool.co.nz/branches/penrose.md "PEN Penrose")**
- **May 28th - 29th: [North Shore](https://www.hirepool.co.nz/branches/north-shore.md "NRS North Shore")**
- **May 30th - 31st: [Wynyard Quarter](# "FAN Wynyard Quarter")**

## **Ways to get involved**

### Photo Competition

And speaking of photos, Hirepool is running a photo competition where customers who take a photo with the Portaloo will go in the draw to win a Hilti worksite radio. The competition ends at 11:59pm on May 31st.

### **How to enter:**

**- Take a photo with the Portaloo (the more creative the better)**

**- Share it on Facebook or Instagram** **- Tag @Hirepool and use the hashtag #PORTALOOPHOTOCOMP**

That puts you in the draw to win the Hilti worksite radio (Ts&Cs apply). So get snapping and don’t feel afraid to ask one of our helpful branch team members to help take your photo! Hirepool will only be accepting photos with the Portaloo in it. Rude and crude photos will be omitted from the draw.

### Track your normal for a month

Download a Review Your Poo chart today to track your bowel movements for a month and get an understanding of your normal. Find the form here: [https://www.thegut.org.nz/reviewyourpoo/](https://www.thegut.org.nz/reviewyourpoo/?fbclid=IwAR2_B0Ut9l5M3mgblcYSeo45ZeytYNlIDcD_skQnSS0Z0Pbd04vXqBR8Gxs)

**Frequency and Change**

What is your Normal? Do you Poo every day,
every second day, twice a day? Use the chart included here to record your
daily poos for a month to establish your normal.

**Texture and Change What is your normal?**

Is the shape and consistency
of your poo like a sausage, separate hard lumps, soft blobs, lumpy and
sausage-like? Check out the images taken from the Bristol poo chart above
the chart you will complete.

**Colour and Change What is your Normal?**

If it’s Brown coming down there is no need to Frown. Changes in colour such as red (Blood in the Poo)
or Black or Grey make a time to visit your doctor. It could save your life.

Knowing your normal can save thousands of lives a year! So get tracking!

Source: https://www.hirepool.co.nz/articles/news-events/review-your-poo-with-the-gut-foundation