Celebrating Wear It Purple Day at school…
Celebrating Wear It Purple day at school is where our organisation began. Empowering young people to plan Wear It Purple Day at their school is what we love to do best so we’ve compiled a list of ways to make it happen below!!
To celebrate at school, it is important to:
Get support from your Principal
Get support from your peers
Be passionate about creating a safe space for all rainbow young people
Tips to help make it magical:
Purchase your free schools pack on our website.
Download the GSA (Gender, Sexuality Alliance) Guide Wear It Purple Co-Created.
Download some or all of our resources to print and have available on display.
Request to present at a school assembly a few weeks or days before to encourage all students and staff members to wear something purple on Wear It Purple Day.
Kindly request a gold coin donation from students and staff members to help contribute to Wear It Purple Day
Set up a bake sale, concert, event at school to help celebrate.
Encourage any out/open LGBTQIA+ students or teachers to present at your Wear It Purple Day event to share their story if they feel comfortable to.
Celebrating Wear It Purple Day at work…
Wear It Purple Day really gets an opportunity to flourish in workplaces just as much as it does in schools. Rainbow young people do not just exist in schools but in most workplaces too! It’s important that they are included in our mission.
To celebrate at work, it is important to:
Get support from your managers, supervisors, HR team and CEO (if applicable).
Be passionate about creating a safe space for all rainbow young people
Tips to help make it magical:
Purchase our workplace pack on our website.
Download some or all of our resources to print and have available on display.
Send out a group email or utilise your comms tool to notify staff members to save the date and wear something purple on Wear It Purple Day.
Kindly request a gold coin donation from staff members to help contribute to Wear It Purple.
Set up a morning tea event for the day, encourage staff members to all bring some tea cakes/sandwiches.
Encourage any out/open LGBTQIA+ staff members to present at your Wear It Purple Day event to share their story if they feel comfortable to.