Considering supporting one of the many amazing LGBTTQIA+ organisations in Aotearoa? That’s awesome! Is there a particular cause you’re hoping to support? Or a region or rural area? Scope out below which group suits your goals and values best.
CHRISTCHURCH
“We provide support for rainbow young people in Ōtautahi Christchurch and the wider Waitaha Canterbury area. We can connect you with our youth groups, whānau support and resources. Our Diversity and Inclusion workshops are available to schools, workplaces, businesses and anyone interested in creating an inclusive Canterbury.”
The principal objective of the Trust is to actively fundraise and attract sponsorships, donations and bequests in order to maintain a fund available to build strength through diversity within the LGBTQI+ community in New Zealand. By donating, you can help support the Trust continue to carry out its important work supporting our Rainbow Community.
wakatipu
InsideOUT works to give rainbow young people in Aotearoa New Zealand a sense of safety and belonging in their schools and communities.
We are a national charity providing resources, information, workshops, consulting and support for anything concerning rainbow or LGBTQIA+ issues and education for schools, workplaces and community organisations.
OUT & PROUD Taranaki Charitable is a completely Taranaki-local LGBTQIA+ support and events team committed to providing a source of visibility and full inclusion for our rainbow community and helping create and develop more active allies in Taranaki and nation-wide.
Taranaki lacks safe spaces for our queer community and social events and entertainment, so Flash Mob Entertainment have created this branch of their entertainment and events business due cater to the wants and needs.
Auckland
“Brought to you by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF), Ending HIV is a community led prevention campaign that aims to mobilise men who have sex with men (MSM) towards the goal of ending new HIV transmission by 2025. We will work tirelessly to ensure Ending HIV is effective, inclusive and responds to the communities’ changing needs. By staying safe, testing often and treating early we can stop HIV in its tracks.”
Rainbow Youth provides support, information, resources & advocacy for Aotearoa’s queer, gender diverse, takatāpui and intersex youth. RY provides strengths-based peer support that considers hauora, resilience, cultural identities, and individual journeys. Their support workers can provide face to face support in Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Wellington, Northland, Taranaki and Dunedin, and online everywhere else in Aotearoa.
OutLine is an all-ages rainbow mental health organisation providing support to the rainbow community, their friends, whānau, and those questioning. We provide a nationwide, free and confidential 0800 support line for people who want to speak to a trained volunteer from the rainbow community. We also provide specialist rainbow counselling and an Auckland based trans and non-binary peer support service.
Aadihkaar fights for an Aotearoa where LGBTQIA+ people of colour, particularly South Asians, can be themselves, free of fear and stigma, and explore their potential while challenging discrimination against them. Aotearoa is a part of a process of redefining what it means to be LGBTQIA+ persons in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Gender Minorities Aotearoa is a nationwide transgender organisation. It is run by and for transgender people; including binary and non-binary, intersex, and irawhiti takatāpui. They support transgender people of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds, and provide one-to-one peer support and information nationwide.
Naming New Zealand is an initiative to help queer, gender diverse, takatāpui and intersex young people with updating their identity documents to correctly reflect their identities. They provide resources about the process of correcting identity documents within New Zealand, connect young people with organisations that can help, and assist with the costs of making these important changes.
“Rainbow Hub Waikato is a non-profit organisation that began as “Waikato Queer Youth” in 2005. We started as a small group of people passionate about supporting young people to have a community that affirms their identities.
Enabled by a passionate group of employees, volunteers and community members, Rainbow Hub Waikato is focused on offering hope to people of all ages.”
ITANZ is a New Zealand registered charitable trust and provides information, education and training for organisations and professionals who provide services to intersex people and their families. One of ITANZ’s projects is The Interface Project, which allows intersex people from all over the world to tell their own stories.
Rainbow Path supports Rainbow asylum seekers and refugees living in Aotearoa New Zealand, leads advocacy work on our human rights, and increases allies’ awareness of the issues we face and builds support for changes to laws, policies and practices. Rainbow Path started in January 2019 and has grown to 9 founding members and a wider group of members and allies.
NELSON
Q-Youth is a by-youth, for-youth charitable organisation dedicated to providing support, advocacy, information and education for queer and trans youth and their friends, family & whānau, schools, workplaces, and wider communities. They are committed to safety and work with the Nelson community to make the Nelson region a safe place to grow up LGBTQ+.
The I’m Local Project aims to help queer & gender diverse youth all over Aotearoa to feel valued, recognised and supported in their local communities. The I’m Local project focuses on contacting high schools, medical centres, hospitals, libraries, marae and community centres in more rural or isolated area of Aotearoa and supplying them with free resources about gender and sexuality.
Tīwhanawhana is a takatāpui community group based in Wellington that welcomes people of diverse sexualities and gender identity. Tiwhanawhana exists for the takatapui community and gives meaning to its kaupapa through different threads; Kapa Haka, Advice, Advocacy, Support of LGBTI Community.
