LGBTQIA Charities down under are benefitting from this week's "GiveOUT" initiative, which raises funds for the community's institutions.

In Melbourne, our friends at Joy FM, the city's LGBTQIA community radio station, has been raising funds for new studio equipment. The station says "Today is GiveOUT Day, Australia's day of giving for LGBTQIA+ communities, and we're asking for your help to raise $7,000 before midnight.

Here's what it's for. The computers in our studios are old, slow and close to the end of their life. They're the machines our presenters use every single day to get LGBTQIA+ voices to air, from the morning shows to the late-night specialist programs. If they fail, shows stop. Not eventually, straight away.

Replacing them properly, all at once, is more than our regular budget can stretch to this year. Your donation will fund new studio equipment that future-proofs JOY and keeps us broadcasting reliably for the next five years.

And today, your gift goes further. Every donation made on GiveOUT Day is matched, so $50 becomes $100 and $100 becomes $200. Matching is capped, so the earlier you give, the more likely your donation is to be doubled.

It's not glamorous, and it won't make a great photo. But it's the difference between a young queer person finding a voice on the radio that sounds like theirs, and that show not going to air at all."

Joy FM can be heard internationally on the web as well as on FM locally in Melbourne, so if you fancy giving them a hand this year, the giving page is at https://giveoutday.org.au/o/joy-media