What the money did

Items purchased with funding:

PIVO POD LITE AUTO-TRACKING SMARTPHONE MOUNT

Rode Wireless GO II Dual Channel Wireless Microphone with Free Interview GO

1 TB memory card

The items listed above were purchased to enable SARAA to livestream and or record our events and
allow them to be accessible to the regional areas of South Australia and to our community members
who are not comfortable/confident to access the community in person.
A large number of our community members are neurodivergent and this also allows us to provide an
event that is in an environment of their choosing to meet the needs of each individual.

The application was for stage 1 of establishing a SA queer community archive to collect, preserve, celebrate and ensure the history of SA's LGBTQIA+ communities won't be lost. We applied for materials to preserve items ready for Stage 2, finding a space where anyone interested can come to learn about our history.

Confirming the space took much longer than we thought it would. We have signed a lease with the Adelaide City Council. It is a fantastic space above the Hutt St Library. This is a big achievement which has taken over 12 months. In addition, the State Library has donated two large plan storage cabinets ideal for storing posters and other items that need to be laid flat.

We produced two highly successful events, one for Feast 2025 and the other for the 2026 History Festival. The Queer Archive Roadshow at the Chapel at the Migration Museum was free, and we were thrilled by the number of people who attended — the Chapel was packed. At the second, after lunch, a workshop on caring for personal archives and recording oral histories was also a hit. People of all ages came, ranging from early 20's to 75+.

Archives are crucial for preserving LGBTIQA+ memory, evidence of past actions, insights into our history and culture, allowing understanding of the past and present and shaping our future. It is clear that a Queer Archive in Adelaide is wanted by our community and everyone we speak to can't wait.

Thanks to the generous support from the Parkestone Foundation, the Port Augusta Pride Picnic Committee successfully delivered our inaugural event on Saturday November 23rd, 2024. Despite inclement weather conditions, the event was supported by a number of service providers, food vendors, and local organisations. An estimated crowd of 200 people, including some who had travelled from Adelaide and the broader Spencer Gulf region attended the event on the Port Augusta Foreshore.

We had members of the LGBTIA+ community attend our picnic as their first ever pride event, supported by friends and family. Several adults who had left Port Augusta as young people who felt unsafe were proud to participate and felt encouraged that the new generation of Port Augusta residents would feel more supported and encouraged to be who they are without fear for their safety.

This first event has shown members of the LGBTQIA+ community in regional South Australia that they are welcomed, included, and supported in their local communities.

In response to our grant application made in June 2024, Pride of the South gratefully received an amount of $1,499.88 from the Parkestone Foundation in order to purchase a Cricut machine, accessories and supplies.

After we spent time learning about the machines and their capabilities, we were able to use them to produce a range of beautiful, Pride of the South-branded mugs which were sold at our recent Southern Pride March stall. These items not only helped raise much-needed funds for our grassroots work, but also helped increase visibility and foster a sense of connection and identity within our local LGBTIQA+ community.

In addition, we have discovered that the Cricut machines' capabilities open up the exciting opportunity to turn reclaimed and thrifted T-shirts into Pride of the South logo shirts, which is an environmentally friendly and sustainable alternative to purchasing new and mass-produced blank t-shirts.

As an entirely volunteer-run and unfunded organisation without any regular income or backing, we are so incredibly grateful for the opportunity to purchase this equipment.

Since April 2023 Sustainable Style Adelaide has provided monthly textile-based workshops for LGBTIQA+ and HIV+ individuals in the SAMESH Community Space. The workshops not only foster technical capacities, they also help to overcome social isolation, foster intergenerational exchange, strengthen community, and enhance individual confidence, self-image, purpose and social-emotional wellbeing and health outcomes.

Initially Sustainable Style relied almost entirely on public donations, with the project facilitated using donated second hand sewing machines, often vintage, prone to breaking down and often complicated to thread and use. Funding from the Parkestone Foundation has ensured that new machines are available for the participants to use, making them much more reliable, but also considerably easier for novices to learn on.

Sessions attract up to 30 participants per Saturday session and 10 per Friday session, and at least 340 attendees over the time period of the grant acquittal. Over the last two years Sustainable Style has saved over a tonne of fabric from landfill.

One participant: “This workshop series has helped me engage with my community. I have felt very welcome and included here. Working on projects in a shared makers space has also been wonderful for my creative productivity.”

In 2022 the Foundation granted Diverse-City $800 for library shelving. Under the funding agreement, every grantee reports back on how the money was spent; in this case the required acquittal was never received, despite numerous extensions — including one to January 1, 2024 — and repeated requests made through March, April and July of 2024. In early 2024 Diverse-City explained that the person responsible for the paperwork was facing a serious health issue, and the Foundation allowed further time on that basis.

On October 26, 2024, with the report still outstanding, the Foundation formally dismissed the acquittal. It is the first time in 35 years of acquittal records that an organisation that accepted funding has not upheld its end of the agreement — a breach the Trustees regard with genuine disappointment, given how small and workable the obligation is.

The consequence is serious and permanent: Diverse-City is indefinitely ineligible for any future grant from the Parkestone Foundation, and no late-submitted acquittal will be accepted.

Considering Matthew Shepard, by Craig Hella Johnson, is a three-part oratorio that
reflects on the 1998 homophobic murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard in Wyoming,
USA.
A Grammy-nominated work, Considering Matthew Shepard communicates a compelling
social narrative, telling an important story of our community that cultivates an
understanding of the other: Matthew’s death led to significant US law reform, and his
tragedy connects with similar cases including George Duncan’s 1972 drowning in

Adelaide, 1980s Sydney bashings, 2016 Pulse Nightclub mass shooting, and ongoing anti-
trans rhetoric.

The Parkestone Foundation grant has allowed The Wrestling For Fun Collective to own vital equipment for the first time.
By purchasing two large, high-quality, mobile floor mats, events are no longer subject to the availability of
participants to bring equipment. This is an important advance in the evolution of the collective to always
provide safe, professional, and appropriate spaces for events, rather than the oft-makeshift flooring of the
past.
It has always been a driving factor of the collective to provide a comfortable and welcoming experience for
both new and existing members. This grant has made an enormous contribution towards our efforts to
keep members free from injury. It also helps us to improve the legitimacy of the collective within the
LGBTQI+ community through our ability to provide a more professional wrestling space.
We are immensely grateful to the Parkestone Foundation for their support of the W4F collective and, in
turn, the maligned sport of wrestling.

Queer Conversation session opens the door and gives a voice to LGBTOQ+ people to ask
questions that are never easy to approach. It is a space of love, acceptance and education
where non-Aboriginal people can speak or anonymously ask personal and confronting questions
to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ community members. This Conversation
session, organised by a group of First Nations LGBTIQ+ community members coordinated by
myself, is the first time an event of this style and content has been part of an Australian Queer
Festivals.Queer Conversation session opens the door and gives a voice to LGBTOQ+ people to ask
questions that are never easy to approach. It is a space of love, acceptance and education
where non-Aboriginal people can speak or anonymously ask personal and confronting questions
to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ community members. This Conversation
session, organised by a group of First Nations LGBTIQ+ community members coordinated by
Belinda McKeown, is the first time an event of this style and content has been part of an Australian Queer
Festivals.

With the $500 grant we received we were able to buy a badge
maker ($415) and badge components ($108.10, some of which
was paid out of our fundraising efforts the year prior).

The badge maker and components have allowed students to make their own pronoun badges.
We aim to use badges as a way of promoting visibility. We also plan on using the badges at fundraising opportunities to continue to promote visibility and educate non-LGBTQIA+
students and staff, such as the Wear It Purple Day barbecue. We’ve spent many of our lunchtimes since getting the badge maker designing and creating badges! This year we’ve seen
a significant increase in participation of the students.

The project had the following objectives:
• Get some formal structures for Limestone Coast Connect
• Have some tangible marketing available beyond digital for the group
• Establish the group as the premier LGBTIQA+ organisation locally
• Have local LGBTIQA+ visibility and representation.

Spending breakdown:
• $224 on support for application for grant writing and group establishment
• $198 on two pull up banners to be used at events (order placed in June 2022)
• $204 spent on Trans Day of Visibility pride packs (from Minus18) for local trans community members
• $109 spent on a Rainbow Flag flown at Mount Gambier Police Station as part of IDAHOBIT

This grant allowed us to improve and expand our existing drum resources collection! As far as activities for the year went, unfortunately Covid19 dramatically impacted both kinds of events that we usually attend; annual events, as well as more spontaneously organized and attended social justice rallies.
Despite the impact to public social justice gatherings and live music that Covid19 presented, we still managed to have some activities: we ran band jam events, participated in an Invasion Day rally, and hosted a successful ROAR Drumline workshop during Feast 2020 that we plan to repeat this year. In the interim I have working on behind the scenes visioning including writing new drum parts, planning new website elements, and working on our branding for a more cohesive presence at events.

Copper Coast Gay Straight Alliance (subsidiary of SOS Copper Coast Suicide Prevention Network)
Amount received: $436
The project: To produce two matching tear-drop rainbow banners for the Copper Coast Gay Straight Alliance and the Port Pirie LGBTIQA+ Community groups to be used in a collaborative regional event.

Funding from Parkstone enabled the project to deliver long-term benefits to SARAA and SA
LGBTIQA+ communities by allowing SARAA to both:
● more effectively advocate for social and legal equality for LGBTIQA+ people
● promote awareness of issues of importance to LGBTIQA+ people in a modern & professional manner.
The project also contributed to SARAA’s strategic plan priority of building our community.

The break-down of the costs to cover the acquittal of the $1,000 grant:
200 x printed Calico bags with Transcend Logo = $700.00
200 x Transcend postcards printed = $78.00
Postage (Melb-Ade) = $15.00
200 x photocopies of Transcend Parent & School Resources = $330.00

We wish to acknowledge the work of the Parkestone Foundation and thank them for supporting this project that would not have otherwise been possible. We also acknowledge the time and effort of the
Gender Wellbeing Service volunteers and staff at SHINE SA, for building a toolkit that will have lasting and important impacts on the local gender diverse community.

In 2020, The Parkestone Foundation graciously provided a $1000 grant to the TLLPC to assist in the production of the 2020 ITDOR. This event was impacted by COVID-19 Restrictions and had to be transformed at the last minute. We applied to Parkestone Foundation to allow us to rollover the remaining grant funding to our planned events for ITDOV 2021. Parkestone Foundation again graciously accepted our proposals.

Fleurieu Connect Project Goals:

Improve opportunities for LGBTIQ+ people to access LGBTIQ+ information and resources relevant to our region.

Increase awareness of our presence and our purpose for LGBTIQ+ people of all ages in our region.

Increase opportunities for LGBTIQ+ people in our communities to socially connect.

Nungay Night is a night of Indigenous LGBTQ+ celebration, live performance, culture and community during Feast providing a platform for Adelaide’s Indigenous LGBTIQ performers.
Through comedy, performance, dance, drag and music Nungay Night celebrates the strength, dynamism, pride and diversity of Adelaide’s Indigenous LGBTIQ community.

The project aimed to establish a peer staffed Binder Fitting and Loan Program through the Gender Wellbeing Service at SHINESA in partnership with BFriend at Uniting Communities. The program was intended to provide a safe, informative, peer-led space for financially disadvantaged trans men, transmasculine, and assigned female at birth non-binary individuals to obtain and trial binders for no cost.

The Adelaide University Sharks are now an established team within the Adelaide University Rugby Union Football Club.
We could not have achieved this without the initial injection of funds through the grant received from the Parkestone Foundation to create promotional material. Initially, this was to go towards posters and postcards.

The Port Pirie LGBTIQ+ Community Services Group sought financial support from the Parkstone grant for support in the production of materials to allow the ongoing promotion of the community group. One of the initiatives of the Port Pirie LGBTIQ Community Group has been to create a sticker (designed by a community member) to be displayed by LGBTIQ+ Friendly businesses, organisations and services in the Port Pirie Region. This has previously been financed by members of the group so it has been welcomed to win the grant.

The Fables are stories about two lesbian grannies in Adelaide, their LGBTIQA+ community, their children, their grandchildren. The book, a sequel to Fables Queer & Familiar (published
2014), was published by Wakefield Press in November 2019. This project was to record the book as a serial, firstly for radio, and secondly for podcasting.

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This project fulfilled all of objectives of the Foundation to
• Foster individual and community LGBTIQA+ pride
• Promote societal acceptance of LGBTIQA+ people
• Celebrate LGBTIQ+ people and their achievements
• Advocate for social and legal equality for LGBTIQA+ people
• Promote awareness of issues of importance to LGBTIQA+ people & the wider community

Funding provided beautifully designed accessible Conference information on the AHHC website. The website is easy to navigate and provided all the information needed for people
interested in attending the Conference.

This 3 month exhibition at the Migration Museum raised awareness and celebrated the experiences of 15- 25 year old LGBTQIA+ and gender diverse living in Adelaide inclusive of a diversity of young people including CALD and Aboriginal. The exhibition utilised a variety of mediums including text, poetry, photographs, objects, banners, artwork and film.

Suicide Prevention Network & Parkstone Foundation

Pride March Funding

The Adelaide Gay & Lesbian Qwire performed twice during the opening of the exhibition, once in the
foyer as the guests arrived and then again during the opening ceremony.

The Adelaide Gay & Lesbian Qwire performed twice during the opening of the exhibition, once in the
foyer as the guests arrived and then again during the opening ceremony. The performance in the foyer
was particularly effective as it set the mood as guests arrived and the voices of the choir carried into
the exhibition space one floor above.

Pride March Adelaide is an annual event celebrating the love, strength and diversity of Adelaide and SA's LGBTIQ community. Our old, heavy banner was worn out.
Pride March Adelaide were successful in our application for 2 new banners, one to lead the March and another at the conclusion of the March so the public could identify Pride March and what it is.

lan and Parkestone Trustees
FABLES QUEER & FAMILIAR (previous working title 'Unleashed')
Community Grant 2014 - $500

Original application for this project was for help both will illustrating the book, and with recording it as a serial.

The book was published by Wakefield Press in November 2014.

The State Library of South Australia has combined with the Australian Lesbian & Gay Archives, the SA Gay & Lesbian Archives, the Parkestone Association and the National Australian Archives to bring a major exhibition of gay history to the heritage listed Institute Room from Wednesday September 18 until Sunday November 24.

The Exhibition includes historic photos, television footage and newspaper accounts from Adelaide's gay history over the forty year period since Adelaide's first Gay Pride march.

This project was a national first, enabling Adelaide’s queer community members to share
their stories and memories of LGBTQIA+ sites in the city of Adelaide. These memories were
anchored to specific locations on a giant map of the City of Adelaide inside a beautiful,
evocative structure situated within the Feast Festival Hub, Light Square during Feast 2012.

"Thanks to your association’s generous grant, the Qwire purchased the Behringer Europort EPA 900 PA system on
14th November 2012.
Since then we have used it on two official occasions- a Christmas Carol Concert at the Church of the Trinity at
Goodwood and a Fringe Cabaret at the Hungarian Hall in Norwood. Both of these performances gave us the
opportunity to raise our profile in the wider community. It was a significant step to perform as a gay and lesbian
choir to a very mixed audience."