Dear JOY family

As you know, times are tough for JOY right now.

So we're pulling ourselves up by our rainbow bootstraps to take charge of JOY’s future, and we are asking Melbourne and Australia for financial support!

Our community has nurtured JOY for so many years, and we are so grateful. You are the reason we exist, and now it’s time for us to start building additional income streams to ensure our survival - so we can keep bringing you great radio, news, music, entertainment and most importantly, a voice for the LGBTIQ community.

We are creating a new arm of JOY that will provide products and services to help build a more inclusive Australia, while keeping JOY 94.9 alive and thriving into the future. We are calling this concept JOY Nation for the purposes of this campaign, and are basically asking the community to help us help ourselves!

We are now stepping beyond the LGBTIQ family to our friends in the broader Australian community to help make this happen. We are asking everyone to choose JOY by donating to our Chuffed campaign Build JOY Nation today to raise $250,000. #helpsavejoy

We have established this fundraising campaign on the crowdfunding platform known as Chuffed, and you can visit our page by clicking this link

https://chuffed.org/project/buildjoynation

Our plan is to make this link and campaign go viral by asking you our family, (plus the many artists, organisations and other community members we have supported) to share this email, and our social media posts appearing today on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.

We are also tapping into our high-profile friends with large social media followers to do a small video grab asking their people to Build Joy Nation. The first example of this kind of video is on our website – Courtney Act.

Please share our posts, engage your loved ones and networks, and together we will Build Joy Nation!

Ange Barry
Chief Executive Officer
JOY 94.9

#joynation