Impact Café: Multicultural Services Sector Edition

Calling all organisations supporting multicultural communities across WA 🌏

📅 Date: Saturday 6 June
📍 Location: 140 William Street, Perth
⏰ Time: 9:00am – 1:00pm

Join us for a practical Impact Café: From Issue to Impact workshop

This (FREE!) hands‑on session is tailored specifically for the multicultural services sector, helping 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 a community program, supporting new arrivals, delivering culturally responsive services, designing inclusion initiatives, or strengthening community connection — you’ll gain practical tools to make your impact clear, measurable and fundable.

What we’ll dive into

🌏 Good project design – shape your ideas for maximum community impact
📍 Defining need and impact – clearly articulate the needs of multicultural communities and how your work responds
📏 Outcomes measurement – capture meaningful change (e.g. social inclusion, access, wellbeing, participation)
📊 Collecting data & evidence – practical approaches that respect cultural context and avoid overburdening your team
📝 Acquittal planning – make reporting to funders simple, clear and effective
📣 Telling your impact story – communicate outcomes in a compelling, culturally aware way
🤝 Collaboration & partnerships – learn from and connect with others doing important work across the sector
🌱 Sustaining impact – design initiatives that create lasting benefits for diverse communities

This is not a dry, academic workshop

It’s fun, interactive and practical. You’ll work on your own ideas and leave with tools you can immediately apply.

Who is it for?

Multicultural NFPs • Migrant and refugee support organisations • CaLD community groups • Settlement service providers • Cultural associations • Language and education providers • Community development practitioners • Local government staff working in inclusion and diversity • Volunteer‑led multicultural initiatives

You’ll walk away with

✔ A clearer, stronger project concept
✔ A simple, reusable logic model and outcomes plan
✔ Tools to support grant applications (Lotterywest, Healthway and other funders)
✔ Confidence to demonstrate impact with meaningful evidence
✔ New connections across WA’s multicultural services sector

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

💻 BYO laptop to enable you to work online using 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.