15 projects awarded with Small Grant funding to benefit LGBTQIA+ regional and rural communities

Pride Foundation Australia are pleased to announce the recipients of our Small Grant 2025 Round 3. Our third round of Small Grants funding in 2025 aimed to prioritise projects focused on regional and rural Australian communities. A total of 51 applications were received for this round, and 15 applicants have been awarded a grant to a total of $16,218 in funding.

Please join us in celebrating the following recipients and their worthy projects. Click through each link to read more about the funded groups and their worthy projects.

Tamworth Pride – LGBTQIA+ Youth Sub-Committee and LGBTQIA+ Youth Events

NT Writers Centre – Queer Mythologies

Queer Sexual Health HUB – Secret Sex Project

HOT SAND

The Gumboot Collective – The Rainbow Dispatch

The Alluvians – Rural GBTQ Men’s Health Seminars: “Living and Ageing Well as Rural GBTQ Men”

Ballarat Roller Derby League – BRDL Pride Visibility Project

Macedon Ranges Accessible Arts – Queerthentic

Blame the Shadows Collective – All Bodies Of Water Connect

The Kinsey Scales – 2026 Pride and Visibility Concert

Queerobodalla Pride Festival

Tabitha Lean – Care as Resistance Workshops

LINE Wangaratta Inc. – Threads of Pride: A Fanstasy Costume Workshop

Earth and Elm Studio – Beyond The Frame: Queer Youth Arts Showcase

Queer Food: Bungendore Pride Summer Supper Club

 

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Acknowledgement of Country

Pride Foundation Australia pays respect to the traditional custodians of the land and sea on which we live, work and play, we pay our respects to Elders past and present, acknowledging that sovereignty was never ceded.

Pride Foundation Australia commits through the resources we have available to us, to work with, for, and alongside Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy peoples and communities to embed a self-determined future.

We further commit the contribution of a significant proportion of grant funding received to Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy led initiatives to improve social outcomes.

Australia was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.