Fund-raising - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Our Mission:• advancing education within BDSM communities by providing free and low cost educational services These services are intended to increase the health, safety and welfare of people practicing BDSM.• providing specialised support to BDSM community members by providing resource centres, outreach services and targeted social events, particularly to rural communities and people who are otherwise isolated through fear of discrimination and reprisal for their involvement in the BDSM lifestyle.• helping to maintain a cohesive identity that BDSM people can connect to by securing Australian BDSM cultural history through the archive project and providing access to BDSM culture and history to all Australians. The archives collect, preserve and protect personal histories, publications and artefacts that are of historical value to the BDSM community. • promoting the ideal that everyone should be supported in their right to live, work and play with dignity. KNOTbound has no preferred gender, sexual orientation or relationship identity models but works to eradicate discrimination that has no valid basis except an inability to accept human diversity. We embrace the diversity of our bisexual, gay, lesbian, hetero, asexual, queer, intersex, trans or simply flexible people. We support our people whether this is by birth or by choice. Our mission is to ensure that everyone is free to live as themselves with out fear of harrassment, bullying, job discrimination, loss of family, friendship or human rights. This includes partners, children, parents and other people in close relationships of whatever variety in our communities• recognising that family units may be equally diverse and we do not discriminate on the basis of family unit make up. Whether people are single, single parents, couples or multipartnered, we provide the same respectful environment of inclusivity, education and support.