Impact Cafe: Women's Interests and Gender Equity Services

Join Lotterywest and the Office of Women's Interests for a practical Impact Café: From Issue to Impact workshop

This FREE hands-on session is designed specifically for organisations working in the women's interests and gender equity sector. Whether you're delivering programs, advocating for systemic change, supporting women experiencing disadvantage, promoting leadership and participation, or advancing gender equality in your community, this workshop will help you strengthen your project ideas, sharpen your funding story, and build confidence in demonstrating meaningful impact.

Together, we'll explore how to move from identifying an issue to designing initiatives that create lasting change for women, girls and gender-diverse people.

What we'll dive into

💜 Good project design – shape your ideas for meaningful and sustainable impact

📍 Defining need and impact – clearly articulate the issues facing women and girls and how your work responds

📊 Collecting data & evidence – practical approaches to gathering meaningful information without overwhelming your team or participants

📏 Outcomes measurement – identify and measure the changes that matter, from safety and wellbeing to participation, leadership and economic empowerment

📝 Acquittal planning – make reporting to funders simple, strategic and effective

📣 Telling your impact story – communicate outcomes in a compelling way that resonates with funders, partners and communities

Who is it for?

Women's services organisations • Gender equity advocates • Family and domestic violence services • Women's health services • Community legal centres • Women's leadership and mentoring programs • Gender equality practitioners • Advocacy and peak bodies • Local government staff working in equity and inclusion • Community groups and volunteer-led initiatives supporting women and girls

You'll walk away with

• A clearer, stronger project concept
• A simple, reusable logic model and outcomes plan
• Tools to strengthen grant applications and funding proposals
• Confidence to demonstrate impact with meaningful evidence
• New connections across WA's women's interests and gender equity sector

Bring your passion, your project ideas (big or small), and your commitment to advancing gender equality, and leave with practical 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, Knowledge and Insights at Lotterywest, she helps organisations design and demonstrate meaningful impact. Mel has worked extensively with government, not-for-profit and community organisations to develop strategies focused on equity, wellbeing, sustainability and social change. She is passionate about helping people turn complex challenges into practical action and supporting organisations to tell compelling stories about the difference they make in their communities.