We exist to tranform regional, rural and remote communities so LGBTIQA+ people can thrive no matter where they live.
We combine two rainbow road-tested models that create LGBTIQA+ inclusion: in communities and inside the places that shape them.
Starting with a “Cuppa Consultation”, we listen to locals to understand what's most important for LGBTIQA+ inclusion. Together we map strengths, identify gaps and co-design an everyday action plan grounded in local lived experience.
We partner councils, schools, health services, community groups and businesses. Strategy reviews, training and mentoring is the foundation for creating safer, more supportive, welcoming and inclusive settings for LGBTIQA+ people.
We combine two rainbow road-tested models that create LGBTIQA+ inclusion: in communities and inside the places that shape them.
We start everything with a cuppa to listen, learn and better understand your experiences, through space-making, sense-making and rejecting a rural deficit approach. We’ll assess your local LGBTIQA+ inclusion readiness, conduct a quick scan of your LGBTIQA+ strengths and share what’s worked in other communities like yours.
We bring together local lived experience and key stakeholders with our two road-tested processes: (1) LGBTIQA+ Mapping where locals assess everyday inclusion, what’s working and what needs to happen next; and (2) the Rainbow Ready Roadmap for mainstream services, settings and spaces on their LGBTIQA+ journey.
Hands-on capacity building—tailored workshops, Pride-event co-design and ally-champion training—that turns insights into visible, sustainable change across councils, schools, clinics and businesses.
Ongoing mentoring and resources—quarterly impact “health checks,” updated toolkits and on-call coaching—to keep momentum strong and outcomes measurable year after year.
From bustling regional hubs to tiny outback roadhouses, more than 340,000 LGBTIQA+ Australians live outside our capital cities. We go wherever they are, because postcode should never decide who feels safe or celebrated.
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In close-knit towns, attitudes can help or harm. Our kitchen-table conversations map each town’s strengths and turn them into quick, practical wins for main street and the local footy club.
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In close-knit towns, attitudes can help or harm. Our kitchen-table conversations map each town’s strengths and turn them into quick, practical wins for main street and the local footy club.
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Distance magnifies isolation and service gaps. We travel on-country to deliver training, ally workshops and story-sharing that prove pride belongs everywhere.
Our projects work alongside councils, health services and LGBTIQA+ organisations, from the Rainbow Ready Roadmap and Communities of Rural LGBTIQA+ Practice to LGBTIQA+ Signs of Hope Grants, we work to help the whole community on their road to LGBTIQA+ inclusion. Explore some of our successful projects here.
We created a funding scheme for small, fast grants for local LGBTIQA+ communities that focused on making big impact on a community-identified need.
Funded to refresh this co-designed resource for regional and rural areas, it offers practical, low- or no-cost tools and real-world examples so any group can advance LGBTIQA+ inclusion.
We're mapping twenty regional, rural and remote communities to better understand local LGBTIQA+ community life using the five foundations that rural LGBTIQA+ communities need to thrive.
