Late Blooming Lesbians

Late Blooming Lesbians is an LGBTQIA+ friendly group, with a focus on late blooming Lesbians or those who are questioning their sexuality to share experiences, find support, make friends and gain insights on the LBL journey. The small grant funding is put towards 2 years of annual fees for Meetup, with remaining funds being towards […]

Karinya House for Mothers and Babies

Karinya House for Mothers and Babies are a homelessness provider for women who are pregnant or parenting a newborn baby and have nowhere else to turn. Right now, they are working to build the capacity of Karinya House for Mothers and Babies to respond to people who identify as LGBTQI+. They are using their small grant […]

Rainbow on the River

Rainbow on the River aims to raise the visibility of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex communities on the Mid North Coast of NSW. Funds from their Small Grant will be put towards a street parade and Mardi Gras weekend on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of June 2023, on the Mid North […]

Basement Productions

Basement Productions are a Perth based alternative and queer performance art and Burlesque collective. Their small grant was used to pay fees for new production, MORPHOSIS, highlighting all the colours of the Queer artistic rainbow in Boorloo/Perth for the local community.

DIRTY MOUTH Queer Poetry Zine

DIRTY MOUTH is all about queer creativity, visibility, and uncensored queer voices; sharing the work of queer poets and artists from around so-called Australia. Funds from this Small Grant round go towards printing and postage of the zine.

Emmaly Langridge

Emmaly Langridge has receive the PFA Small Grant for performers fees towards her project Female Gaze. This event aims to create a space for women for creative celebration, part social gathering combining live performance, storytelling, multimedia and sound. The event will showcase selection of queer women and non-binary folks to present work over the course of […]

Leadership Great South Coast Incorporated

Leadership Great South Coast (LGSC) provides an annual community leadership program for aspiring and emerging leaders drawn from all sectors of the Great South Coast region. Funding from our Small Grants was put towards ‘Take A Step Forward: LGBTIQA+ Diversity and Inclusion Conference,’ aiming to foster inclusion for the LGBTIQA+ community in the Great South […]

By Candlelight Concerts

By Candlelight Concerts is a community project putting on free events in Lismore region. Lismore is fortunate to support a large LGBTQIA community who have lost both their homes and venues to gather in. This Small Grant goes towards a music and poetry event that platforms LGBTQIA performers, creating safe, intimate spaces for LGBTQIA community […]

Rainbow Abilities

Rainbow Abilities is a social group run by voluntary support workers for LGBTQIA+ folk with disabilities, located in Ballina, NSW. Their Small Grant provides much needed funds to cover insurance for community gatherings.

Rainbow Shoelace Project

Rainbow Shoelace Project is the brainchild of 12-year-old Abbie Kelly in Broken Hill. This is a self funded project, creating packs of rainbow coloured beads to go on shoelaces, which are given out for free to show support to the LGBTIQ+ community. Abbie was awarded a Small Grant to continue her work on this project.

Q Group Clare Valley

Q Group is an LGBTQIA+ support group for high-school-aged children in the Clare Valley region, providing a safe space for LGBTQIA+ teens to meet and talk about the issues that are important to them. The Small Grant has assisted in funding a Pilot program, with the first session being held in August 2022.

LINE Wangaratta

LINE Wangaratta Inc. is a volunteer-led Not-for-Profit charity that coordinates social inclusion programs and events, aims at connection and support, raises awareness in the community, supports services and businesses to be LGBTQIA+ inclusive and has a vision of change in the north east region.

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  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.