Anyone can participate in Welcoming Week!

From small actions to system change – belonging is everyone’s business.

So this Welcoming Week, we’re inviting everyone to reflect on the role they play, and to take action, big or small, to help build a stronger sense of belonging for all of us who call Australia home.

It’s easy to join this global campaign for belonging, simply:

SHARE your commitment to welcoming

• On social media, share welcoming actions your community is taking
• Share a welcoming message – here are some ideas to get you started!
• Issue a Welcoming Week Proclamation or Resolution

JOIN a Welcoming Week gathering

Find a Welcoming Week event near you and go along – alone or with a friend!

HOST a Welcoming Week event

• Online or in-person, a Welcoming Week event can be anything! Including:
  • Food festival featuring diverse cuisines
  • Explore the native ingredients in your area, led by a local Elder
  • Organise a welcoming mural – chalk, paint, otherwise!
  • Community BBQ or picnic
  • Festival or gathering showcasing the diverse musical talent of your community
  • Movie screening
  • Sports day
  • Crafts events
  • Community info session
  • Multicultural Quiz

For more information and ideas, please check out this toolkit

For 4 key ways to celebrate Welcoming Week in 2026, please click here to download

More questions? We’d love to answer them! Contact Mengting and Kate: communications@welcoming.org.au

About Welcoming Week

Welcoming Week is an annual campaign and celebration to showcase the movement of communities striving to be more welcoming places for all, including First Nations communities, migrants, refugees, people seeking asylum, receiving communities and international students. 

Welcoming Week 2026: Belonging Is Everyone’s Business

Belonging doesn’t just happen – it’s built and nurtured. It’s created in the everyday moments, in the choices we make, and in how we show up for one another. And it doesn’t sit with any one group or sector alone.

It’s brought to life through everyday actions. It is shaped in the spaces where we live, learn, work, gather, and connect. From local clubs and classrooms to workplaces, neighbourhoods, places of worship, libraries, community centres,  councils, and universities—every part of our community has a role to play.

This theme recognises that belonging is not a standalone initiative—it’s a collective practice. It calls on all of us to consider: What role do we play in making people feel seen, valued, and connected? And how can we work together—across sectors, cultures, and communities—to strengthen that sense of belonging for everyone?

Because when belonging is actively cultivated across the whole community, it doesn’t just benefit individuals if benefits us all it strengthens social cohesion, builds trust, and helps communities thrive.

Core Messages

• Belonging is everyone’s business
• We all have a role to play in creating belonging.
• From small actions to system change; belonging is everyone’s business.
• Belonging is built in the everyday – and everyone has a part to play.
• Welcoming Week is an annual campaign that connects neighbours of all backgrounds through community-led activities and events.
• Welcoming Week is an actionable, holistic campaign that provides individuals and communities the opportunity to publicly proclaim welcoming values, foster a mutual understanding between First Nations, refugees, migrants, people seeking safety, settlers and everyone calling their community home, and build a deeper sense of belonging for all.
• More people than ever are on the move, displaced by climate and conflict and seeking opportunity and mobility. As this migration reshapes communities, many places are unprepared and underinvested in the work needed to create welcoming infrastructure – and they’re unsure of where to start.
• Welcoming Week invites communities to take the first step toward creating an environment where everyone can truly belong, contribute and thrive.
• Welcoming Week is a time when a chorus of thousands—in communities large and small, rural and urban—celebrate the benefits of an inclusive and welcoming society and deepen their commitment to creating places where everyone can belong, contribute and thrive.
• Welcoming Week is about more than the events and connections during this week alone. It’s a time to showcase the movement of communities striving to be more welcoming places for all, including migrants, refugees, people seeking asylum, international students, and the entire community, as well as the work that happens in your communities every single day. 

Hosting an event? Check out our handy resources here:

Sharing your Welcoming Week event, activation, promotion or declaration? We’d love to hear about it! Tag us and we can amplify:

Facebook:

www.facebook.com/welcomingaus

www.facebook.com/WelcomingWeekAustralia/

Instagram:

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/WelcomingAustralia

Email:

Contact Mengting and Kate: communications@welcoming.org.au with any questions, event enquiries, promotion requests

Submit your event:

We want to hear about your event! Submit here:

https://welcoming.org.au/calendar/community/add/
Hosting a private or sold out event but still want to be part of the Welcoming Week party? These can still be submitted for inclusion, with address or other details removed. Just leave these out of your submission, or leave us a note and we’ll remove before publishing.