Here are some suggested steps to take once you have joined the Welcome Here Project:

Get your workplace ready

• Put up your sticker and charter in a visible area
• Place your promotional cards and magnets in a central place for staff and visitors to see
• Upload our project logo to your website and hyperlink to our website (Members will receive the logo upon joining the project)

Inform your team

• Share information from our project website with your team:
  • The project video explains the project perfectly
  • The FAQs will help your team respond to questions from visitors
  • Explain the Diversity Days Project
• Ideas for a team launch:
  • Have a morning tea or a staff meeting
  • Screen the project video and take a team photo

Announce that you have joined the project

• Let the LGBTQ+ community know you are a proud member
  • Post photos on social media, a team photo in front of your sticker is very welcoming
  • Wear your Welcome Here Project pin for the community to see
  • Download and print a project banner
• Let your networks know you are a proud member
  • Download the free promo materials:
    • Project logo: good for newsletters, websites, brochures and so on
    • Pull-up or feather banners: good for events

Celebrate LGBTQ+ Days of Significance (we call them Diversity Days)

• Schedule each Diversity Day in your calendar
• Download the free Promotional Kit for each Diversity Day
• Check out the Diversity Days page for more information on how to celebrate

For more information contact us at [email protected]

Photo: The Lion and Buffalo announcing they joined the project in July 2018