Play Matters Australia: Rainbow Families Playgroup Rockhampton

Play Matters Australia delivers and supports community and facilitated playgroups accessed by thousands of families, and are the largest non-profit organisation specialising in play in Australia.

In Rockhampton, Rainbow Families Playgroup plan to establish and facilitate a weekly playgroup, specifically designed for LGBTQIA+ parents, carers, and their children. Delivered by Play Matters Australia volunteer facilitators with local lived experience, the playgroup will offer a safe, warm, and welcoming environment where families can connect, build support networks, and play together.

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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.