Glyn Fussell and Jamie Tagg love a bit of disruption. With their beloved LGBTQIA+ club night Sink the Pink, the duo injected some much-needed rainbow energy into a rather sanitised and heteronormative industry, bathing queers in glitter and sweat for over thirteen years.

And over on the festival circuit, Fussell and Tagg are the masterminds behind Mighty Hoopla, the UK’s ultimate celebration of pop music that has played host to icons such as Nelly Furtado, Kelly Rowland, Anastasia, Kelis, Jessie Ware, En Vogue and Sister Sledge. Now, the creatives are aiming to bring that same energy over to the fundraising industry with their community-led foundation, Pink Noise.

“What we do is sometimes wrapped up in a camp bow and people don’t realise that, actually, Mighty Hoopla disrupted the festival industry. Sink the Pink disrupted clubland. With Pink Noise, we want to do the same. We want to change the traditional way of fundraising,” Fussell tells GAY TIMES. 

The foundation, which launched on 14 June, aims to “support and strengthen” the most vulnerable members of the LGBTQIA+ community, with Rainbow Migration – which assists LGBTQIA+ people through the asylum system in the UK – and Not a Phase – a charity uplifting the lives of trans adults in the UK – as their beneficiaries. Read below for our full chat with Fussell and Tagg about the origins of Pink Noise, why the foundation is “for everybody” and the future of Mighty Hoopla.