Every community. Every setting. Every bystander. Our community work is as wide as the communities we serve and we're just getting started.

We love our community

  • We show up wherever people are.

    These are some of the places we've started.
    They're not where we finish.

    Bystander capability doesn't belong in a boardroom. It belongs everywhere, in your sporting club, your council chamber, your community group, your workplace, your street. Harm happens in communities. So does prevention.

    Be There Group works with anyone who gathers people, because anyone who's ever been in the right place at the right moment knows that being a bystander isn't a role. It's a choice. We help people make it.

  • The bystander is everywhere

    Most bystander programs live inside organisations. We think that's where they start, not where they end.

    The person who learned to step in at work takes that capability home. The coach who understands coercive control models something for their athletes that carries beyond the field. The parent who knows what to say when something isn't right raises children who know the same thing.

    Community is where the work becomes cultural. And cultural change is the only kind that actually lasts.

  • Sport4Good

    In partnership with Bond University  ·  Gold Coast and beyond

    Sport is one of the most trusted and under utilised vehicles for culture change we have. Sport4Good delivers bystander training and psychosocial safety programs across sporting clubs, to athletes, coaches, staff, volunteers, and parents, building a shared language of active care that extends from the field into families and communities.

    Developed with Bond University, Sport4Good operates across three tiers of every club and includes a Bond University micro-credential for all participants. It's one of the first programs of its kind in Australia and it's just getting started.

    Current reach: Gold Coast sporting clubs across multiple codes, with national expansion underway.

  • Local Government Partnerships

    Gold Coast City Council  ·  Brisbane City Council  ·  and growing

    Local government has extraordinary reach into community life, through libraries, community centres, sporting facilities, events, and services. Be There Group partners with councils to embed bystander capability across the communities they serve.

    From community safety programs to DV prevention initiatives, we work alongside councils to build programs that reach residents across every demographic and give local government a tangible, evidenced way to meet its positive duty obligations in the community.

    Current partnerships: Gold Coast City Council and Brisbane City Council community safety and sport and recreation programs.

  • Community Groups, Charities and Local Initiatives

    Wherever people gather  ·  Across Australia and Aotearoa NZ

    Some of the most important bystander work we do happens outside of organisations and sporting clubs entirely. Faith communities, neighbourhood groups, charities, schools, parent organisations, any setting where people trust each other is a setting where bystander capability can take root.

    We adapt our programs for community contexts, accessible, jargon-free, and designed to work with the diversity of real community life. If you're running a community group and you want your people to know how to look out for each other, we want to talk to you.

  • Be There Foundation

    Registered charity  ·  DGR and PBI status  ·  Community support programs

    Our registered charity: Be There Foundation is where community work and direct support meet. The Foundation fills the gaps that formal services can't, court accompaniment, practical support for victim survivors, and community bystander education programs that reach people who need it most.

    Community bystander training delivered through the Foundation is specifically designed for people outside of workplaces, in the community settings where much of Australia's domestic and family violence occurs and where most bystanders live.

    The Be There app: the world's only bystander-specific app, co-created with Telstra and Griffith University, is available free to everyone.

The world is our oyster and yours

These programs are the start. The communities we want to reach are every community. Here are some of the settings we're actively looking to grow into  if you're connected to any of them, let's talk.

Multicultural communities

Bystander capability is for everyone and our programs are designed to be culturally responsive.

Schools and universities

Building bystander culture early, in the settings where young people form their understanding of how to treat each other.

Faith communities

Trusted, intimate, and often the first place people turn. Bystander capability belongs here.

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What people are saying

“I thought that training was fantastic. I thought that the way that the tone for the room was set. It was quite incredible actually, the way that the facilitators were able to sort of just create and then maintain a sense of safety where everybody could just have that vulnerability in that space.”

— Division 9 Community Member, Gold Coast City Council