We’re always up to something, and we’d love for you to join us as a volunteer!
We run monthly Raw Sugar sober socials at Newtown Community and Cultural Centre – a mobility accessible community lounge in Newtown. We also run other events throughout the year, or hold fund raising stalls at PRIDE and other community events.
We need folks to help with things like: Help set up (tidying, set up food, etc). Greet people as they arrive, bring them in. Cook/bake/bring some finger food. Plan a social game or activity. Facilitate a game (eg. bingo, a word game, etc). Bring tarot/manicure/another creative setup. Help pack up (wash dishes, vacuum, tidying). Something else we haven’t thought of!
We would really appreciate your support – if you have time and want to help out, please fill the form below.
Raw Sugar is on from 4pm, with kai downstairs till 5pm, and a film screening upstairs from 5pm till 7pm
Kei reira (location): Aunty Dana’s Op Shop, ground floor at 130 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington, and upstairs level 1 The Gender Centre social space. Homai (bring along): some kai to share for our end of year potluck Waea mai (contact us on): genderminorities@gmail.com, 04) 385 0611
*Tatataapui * Trans * Intersex * Queer * Rainbow * Plus friends and whaanau*
Raw sugar is a FREE event, a SOBER event, and has GENDER NEUTRAL BATHROOMS with hand rails. Aunty Dana’s is not currently wheelchair accessible, it is up two steps, it has a hand rail. The Gender Centre is up a lot of steps. We hate that too. One day we will get a ground floor situation going.
Come meet some awesome folks, share food, have a yarn, and watch a film together! Or if you’re feeling shy, just come at 6pm for the film! This will be our first event at our new gender centre in Newtown, so come check it out!
*Tatataapui * Trans * Intersex * Queer * Rainbow * Plus friends and whaanau*
Ka aha te raa (date): Sat July 13th
Ka aha te waa (time): 4pm – 8pm
Kei reira (location): The Gender Centre, 130 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington. It’s upstairs from our fund raising store Aunty Dana’s Op Shop, so come through the shop and follow the signs or ask at the counter.
Homai (bring along): he kai to share, or just bring yourself, or friends, or whaanau
Waea mai (contact us on): genderminorities@gmail.com
Raw sugar is a FREE event, a SOBER event, and has GENDER NEUTRAL BATHROOMS. It is NOT MOBILITY ACCESSIBLE this month at our new venue – but it will be accessible before our August event.
This week The Gender Centre, our Wellington transgender community drop in, is moving out of 128 Abel Smith street, and in to 130 Riddiford street in Newtown.
Our new venue will be up and running this week for our regular drop in Wednesday and Thursday, 10am till 5pm.
Sea and Stone IPL clinic will still be on Wednesdays as usual, and Wellington Transgender Legal Clinic will still be on every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month, and Raw Sugar will still be on the first Saturday each month from 4pm – 8pm, though our first Raw Sugar (July) might be a bit random as we get set up.
How to get there
To enter the new gender centre, go inside Aunty Dana’s Op Shop (up 2 steps with a hand rail), then through the store to the back door. Follow the signs up the internal staircase (about 20 steps with a hand rail). At the top of the stairs, The Gender Centre is on the left.
We have prioritised building a mobility ramp for the front door, which is currently being designed by builders, and purchased a second-hand Stannah Stairlift for the interior staircase, so while it’s NOT currently mobility accessible, it will be ASAP.
There is an all-genders bathroom with mobility support rail at the bottom of the stairs, and there is tube lighting throughout which we suspect is fluorescent, but this can be turned off as there’s plenty of natural light and a lamp if needed.
