Impact Cafe: LGBTQIA+ support sector

A (FREE!) Full‑Day, Practical Workshop for WA’s LGBTQIA+ Support Sector 🏳️‍🌈

📅 Date: Wednesday 8 July 2026
📍 Location: City West Lotteries House
⏰ Time: 8:30am – 4:30pm
☕ Refreshments provided

Supported by Living Proud, Rainbow Futures and Pride WA

Calling all organisations supporting LGBTQIA+ communities across WA

Join us for a full‑day, hands‑on session, tailored specifically for the LGBTQIA+ support sector. It will help you strengthen your project ideas, sharpen your funding story, and build confidence in demonstrating meaningful impact for the communities you serve.

Whether you’re running peer programs, delivering inclusive services, creating safe and affirming spaces, supporting mental health initiatives, or advocating for equality — you’ll gain practical tools to clearly articulate and evidence your impact.

What we’ll dive into

🏳️‍🌈 Good project design – shape initiatives that are inclusive, responsive and community‑led
📍 Defining need and impact – articulate the unique needs of LGBTQIA+ communities and how your work responds
📏 Outcomes measurement – capture meaningful change (e.g. safety, belonging, wellbeing, participation, visibility)
📊 Collecting data & evidence – ethical, respectful and practical approaches to gathering insights
📝 Acquittal planning – simplify reporting to funders while keeping it meaningful
📣 Telling your impact story – communicate your outcomes with clarity, authenticity and confidence
🤝 Collaboration & connection – build relationships across WA’s LGBTQIA+ sector
🌱 Sustaining impact – design initiatives that create lasting, positive change for diverse communities

This is not a dry, academic workshop

It’s interactive, practical and grounded in real projects you bring on the day. You’ll actively work on your own ideas and leave with tools you can apply straight away.

Who is it for?

LGBTQIA+ support organisations • Pride and advocacy groups • Peer support networks • Youth services • Mental health and wellbeing providers • Community health organisations • Inclusion and diversity practitioners • Local government staff • Volunteer‑led LGBTQIA+ initiatives

You’ll walk away with

✔ A stronger, clearer project concept
✔ A simple, reusable logic model and outcomes plan
✔ Tools to support grant applications (Lotterywest, Healthway and others)
✔ Confidence to demonstrate impact with meaningful, respectful evidence
✔ New connections and shared momentum across the sector

Bring your passion, your project ideas (big or small), and your commitment to supporting LGBTQIA+ communities — and leave with the tools to turn intention into impact.

💻 BYO laptop to make the most of practical tools from the Community Impact Hub.

Facilitator: Melanie Bainbridge
Melanie Bainbridge is a social impact, arts and sustainability professional with over 20 years’ experience in strategy, policy, and community engagement. As Senior Manager, Impact Design and Capability at Lotterywest, she helps organisations design for measurable, meaningful impact. Mel has worked extensively with local governments and community groups to develop strategies focused on sustainability, equity, wellbeing, and culture. She’s passionate about turning big ideas into practical action and helping groups define their goals, plan their path, and share their story with clarity and heart.