Pride Whanganui GiveOUT Day - Dinner + Auction: CANCELLED

Pride Whanganui GiveOUT Day - Dinner + Auction

GiveOUT Day provides LGBTTQIA+ organisations like Pride Whanganui the opportunity to build awareness of their causes, raises funds for vital services and expand networks.

Join us at Coopers Bar on Saturday October 15th for an epic night of fundraising and entertainment!!

5.30pm Arrival & Nibbles
6.30pm Dinner
7.30pm Auction
8.30pm Live music from Hot Potato

GiveOUT Day started in 2013 in the U.S where it has raised multi-millions of dollars for the LGBTTQIA+ community. More recently, it launched in Australia and raised over $320,000 for LGBTTQIA+ charities, services & events! This year it's in New Zealand for the first time and Pride Whanganui was the first charity named as taking part.

Pride Whanganui is a full volunteer organisation. Our Trustees are volunteers, and our Manager is a volunteer. The Trust formed in 2018 and became a registered charity in 2019 (CC57420).

What we do:
- Drop-in Centre: 10am-2pm, three days a week where people can access resources, information, support, a safe space, guidance and advocacy.

- Pride Youth Groups: Twice weekly – Mondays for Youth aged 11-15yo and Tuesdays for Youth aged 16-20yo.

- 60’s+ Coffee Catch Up: A monthly space where our older Rainbow people can come and catch up with new or old friends in a safe and inclusive space.

- Monthly Social Group: An environment where all Rainbow people can come once a month to hang out and meet new friends.

- Professional Development Training: Whether you’re an organisation, a business, a social group or sports group, we offer Professional Development Training to further upskill people who are either currently working with or want to be working with Rainbow people.

- Safe Spaces: We offer a programme called Safe Spaces which is an ongoing partnership with Pride Whanganui to ensure the entity that has taken up being a Safe Space continues to be that way.

- School Support: Our Manager Christina is the local Schools Coordinator for InsideOUT so naturally our organisation supports her and local schools in anything they need.

- Advocacy: Quite often organisations or businesses need advice, guidance and support in order to further their own mahi or to support their employees or clients. For example: we are currently working with local Health Care Providers to create a Rainbow Healthcare Pathway, specifically for Transgender and Gender Diverse people. We have pulled together our resources and people from within the Rainbow Community to work with the medical professionals to get a streamlined pathway working asap.

- Pride Week: Every year since 2019, we have run a Pride Week – not only to celebrate the Rainbow community but to educate others, advocate and most of all – bring visibility. What started off as two events over one day has grown to nearly 20 events in 8 days. We now get people from all around New Zealand and Australia (when Covid restrictions allow) that come to celebrate with us for the week.

- Website & Social Media Pages: We run three social media pages (Pride Whanganui Facebook & Instagram and Pride Youth Instagram) as a way to connect with our community both locally, nationally and internationally. Our website has been created to house important information, provide local information about where to access certain things and is also home to our online Merchandise store which offers a small bit of income for the organisation.

- Resources/Information/Support: We connect with hundreds of Whanganui people monthly, not just within the Rainbow Community but those who want to know how to support them better.

- Community Networking & Support: Our Manager Christina is currently a member of the Whanganui Violence Intervention Network (VIN) Reference Group, and also assists the local FLOW (NZ Police Family Violence) Team and people they are working with that may need specific support via a Rainbow lens.