The Warm Door
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A community campaign · Australia

The Warm Door

A room for everyone the room usually fails.

Four rooms behind one door: people rebuilding after violence, students who need help at school, anyone carrying something heavy, and kids who can't afford to train. We point people to real help, and we build the tools that make help easier to reach.

Find your room Help build the rooms
The Warm Door campaign illustration showing connection across Pink Shield, Gold Coin Drive and Coffee, Not a Coffin
Campaign illustration of the vision we are building toward. The people and places are imagined; this is not a photograph of an operating programme. Open full artwork
Behind the door

Four rooms. One rule: nothing here pretends.

Each room says what is real today and what isn't built yet. Every room links to every other room, and the help lines are on every page.

Rebuild

Pink Shield

For women and men rebuilding after violence, at home, in families or in their community. A gym floor, a routine and a crew who don't need you to explain.

Building · no partner gym yet

Pink Shield at school is BULLY.

Enter Pink Shield Open the room in the app
Open the door

Gold Coin

If you've got a coin, you're in. Gyms keep a free first step open for kids who can't pay, the way a gold coin in a tin once opened the door.

Starting · no fund yet
Enter Gold Coin Open the room in the app
Said plainly

Awareness and support. Not a service.

The Warm Door is separate from Data Fight Central's fight platform. Data Fight Central builds and runs the technology. The rooms belong to the Warm Door.

The Warm Door is

  • A signpost to real help. The Australian help lines are on every page, one tap from a phone.
  • Working tools. A quick exit on every page, disguise screens in the app's rooms, and safety checks in DFC's AI assistant.
  • Free to use. No tickets, no gambling, no ads on these pages.

The Warm Door is not

  • A counselling, crisis or emergency service. Nobody is on call here. If you need someone now, use a line below.
  • A refuge or safe house. A gym is a public place with a public address.
  • Open at a venue yet. No gym, café or school has signed up. When one does, this page will name it.
  • A registered charity. It is not collecting money yet.
We care because others don't.
Heath Ewart, who started the Warm Door
Open a room with us

The tools are built. The people part is next.

  1. Fund a room

    Grant makers and funders: see what is built, what isn't, and what a grant would pay for.

    Grants

  2. Run a gym?

    Claim your gym's page on Data Fight Central and say you'll keep a free first step open for a kid who can't pay.

    Claim your gym

  3. Work at a school?

    BULLY is being built as its own app for schools, young people and families. Follow it at bullyyouth.com.

    Visit BULLY

  4. Run a café?

    Coffee, Not a Coffin needs its first café. Tell us if yours could be the warm door in your street.

    Email about your café

Help, right now

Real people, any hour.

Emergency000If you or someone else is in danger now Lifeline13 11 14Crisis support, 24/7 1800RESPECT1800 737 732Family, domestic and sexual violence, 24/7 Kids Helpline1800 55 1800Ages 5 to 25, 24/7 13YARN13 92 76Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander crisis support, 24/7 MensLine Australia1300 78 99 78For men, 24/7 Beyond Blue1300 22 4636Support, 24/7 New Zealand: Need to talk?1737Call or text, 24/7

These are independent services. The Warm Door is not part of them and cannot see your call.