An ostomy pouch comprises first and second walls defining a storage chamber for receiving solid and/or liquid bodily waste matter. The pouch includes an opening for receiving bodily waste matter to be stored in the pouch. A waste channel is located within the storage chamber of the pouch between the first and second walls that is formed from a flexible material. The waste channel has an inlet sealed around the opening of the pouch and an outlet at its lower end. The waste channel channels solid and/or liquid matter from the opening into the storage chamber through the waste channel outlet. The free end of the waste channel is reconfigurable between an open configuration in which bodily waste is able to exit the outlet into the storage chamber and a closed configuration in which waste within the storage chamber is prevented from entering the waste channel through the outlet, the closed configuration being a folded and or collapsed configuration.
