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 LGBTIQ 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
- Download the free promo materials:
Celebrate LGBTIQ 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