STREAT runs youth programs aimed at providing life-changing opportunities for young people. Self-described as focusing on social impact through their cafes and catering services.

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STREAT | 6,531 followers on LinkedIn. We&#39;re a food systems social enterprise dedicated to helping young people who need a hand. | STREAT tackles the problem of youth disadvantage and homelessness by using its seven hospitality businesses to provide highly supported training and employment pathways for people aged 16 to 24. STREAT’s trainees all have very high needs and barriers to training and employment – including chronic homelessness, drug and alcohol dependency, family violence and mental health issues. Here’s the help we provide:

Healthy self – wrap-around support including individual case management, linkages to specialist service providers as needed, group life skills programs, and creative and social activities.

Co-founder, CEO & Chief Innovation Officer of STREAT, a social enterprise creating healthy people and a healthy planet

Rebecca Scott, OAM

Deputy CEO & Chief Relationships Officer

Elise Bennetts

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PwC CFO Advisory Lead and External Audit Partner

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If you've ever wondered how STREAT supports young people who need a hand, check out our latest video. Here the youth programs team give you a tour of our Collingwood space and talk about our work readiness programs for young people. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/ga8hvz9c We are currently open for applications from young people in Melbourne who want help finding a job, if you or a young person you know is interested, apply here and our team will be in touch: streat.com.au/apply

We’re thrilled to announce that STREAT’s Siptember campaign has won Keep Australia Beautiful VIC Tidy Towns and Cities Sustainability Awards in the City: Behaviour Change Campaigns and Education category! 🎉 Feeling both delighted and honoured, especially given the amazing finalists we were up against! This achievement reflects the dedication and hard work that's gone into the campaign since it began in 2019. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported SIPTEMBER and has taken part in the campaign, especially our key partner, MAKE Studios Melbourne —who have collaborated with STREAT, helping craft and implement the campaign over the years, essential for setting it up for success. The secret to our campaign lies in a range of behavioural change techniques, tailored across various cafes and contexts. We emphasised that small habits can lead to significant change, impacting individuals, organisations, and systems alike and sharing how each cafe is tracking has really helped customers see the small difference they're making translates to a much bigger change. A staggering fact: 1.8 billion cups end up in landfill every year. This campaign illustrates that every effort counts, and even the smallest actions can create a ripple effect. We’re also excited to share that we have expanded our SIPTEMBER campaign to include reusable containers! "Excitingly, we've gone open source, so other cafes can take part using our toolkit - so we've had participants from the UK, interstate and regional Victoria, and we invite others to take part in 2025." notes Fiona Meighan , who has helped lead the campaign. Importantly, thank you to each and every customer who borrows or brings a reusable cup, we absolutely can't do it without you.

🍞 Get ready to twist and twirl in our very first 'Bread Waste Pasta Workshop' this Thursday at the Moving Feast Victoria Kitchen. We have been working hard to perfect this recipe and we are so excited to share it with you all! Join our Eco-Chef, Fernando as he shows you how to transform stale bread into delicious pasta. It’s a fun, creative way to reduce waste and get your pasta fix! You’ll enjoy a full demonstration, get hands-on experience making your own pasta, and taste it with a special NEW Moving Feast product! Plus, you’ll take home a jar of our tasty Caponata! Spaces are super limited—only 10 spots available for a 10 am or 1 pm session. Grab your ticket now here: https://lnkd.in/gbXyBgV8 ! 🍝

We are delighted to have been selected as a finalist for the Keep Australia Beautiful VIC Tidy Towns and Cities Sustainability Awards in the Behaviour Change Campaigns and Education category for our Siptember Campaign to reduce and eliminate single-use coffee cups. Having just finished our campaign for 2024 in September and successfully achieving a reusable rate of 56% across our cafes it's a great time to reflect on what we've achieved since Siptember started in 2019. We are honoured to be included amongst the other finalists who are doing amazing things and look forward to meeting everyone on October 28th when the winners are announced. Good luck to everyone involved!

We're thrilled to announce STREAT has a brand-new electric van to add to our green fleet! This next step aligns with STREAT’s vision to tread lightly on the planet in all of our businesses. We estimate this van will prevent us from emitting 1.4 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions through charging our van with renewable electricity (from a combination of rooftop solar and green energy) A huge thanks to our partners at RACV for their generous support in making this dream a reality! This milestone marks a significant achievement in STREAT’s journey, and we are deeply grateful for their support.

Last Thursday, STREAT hosted our Taste of STREAT Community Event. A 2-hour information, networking session run by STREAT Youth Programs for team leaders and managers of relevant referral services who are interested in learning more about STREAT’s programs. It was an incredible day and we loved talking to other organizations about how we can work together to give young people the support and skills they need for pathways into employment. A big thank you to all the organizations that joined us: MacKillop Family Services (Forest Hill) The Salvation Army Australia (Sunshine) SYC Limited Asuria Australia HoMie Clothing Westgate Community Initiatives Group Ltd. (WCIG) (Bayside and Monash Regions) Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service EACH (Wantirna South) cohealth (Essendon) Carringbush Adult Education (Richmond) Darebin Youth Services If you are interested in attending the next Taste of STREAT Community Event, please get in contact with our youth programs team via this email: youthprogram@streat.com.au .

☕️ Do you always think about using a reusable coffee cup but never do? Join STREAT’s 5-day Tiny Habits Challenge! Our Tiny Habits Challenge has run every September since 2019 and STREAT would love to invite you to take part this year to see what small change you can make. You can use the challenge to help reduce your disposable coffee cup use as part of Siptember and add any other habits too! We are really excited to be working using Stanford behavioural scientist, BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits approach to provide this challenge. So, let us help you form a new habit with free email reminders and online coaching. Sign up by 7pm Sunday to start your habit-forming journey on Monday! You'll receive free email reminders and online coaching to support your progress. ✨ You don’t have to be in Melbourne to participate—this challenge is open to everyone, everywhere! Ready to make a change? Find the sign-up link here: https://lnkd.in/gGn34TJ7 #TinyHabits #Siptember #HabitFormation #STREAT #BehavioralScience

🙋♀️ 💜 The STREAT team looking fabulous in their purple for Wear it Purple Day. Showing support for young LGBTQIA+ people everywhere! As a social enterprise that supports young people who identify as rainbow this day is very close to our hearts! 🌈 This year's theme is "Your Passion, Your Pride"! It celebrates LGBTQIA+ individuals pursuing their dreams in fields like science, art, sports, music, or any other area they’re passionate about. If you want to learn more, head to the Wear it Purple website: https://lnkd.in/ghCnPbZu

What a fantastic event! We're thrilled to have partnered with MAKE Studios Melbourne for the Kitchen Alchemy workshop. Big thanks to Fiona Smith and Chris Locke for leading such a hands-on and inspiring session. Seeing participants embrace sustainable practices and learn to transform food 'scraps' into delicious kombucha and cordial was truly rewarding. Don’t miss out — register your interest to join us next time! https://lnkd.in/g7urN3Sm

Last Tuesday, we were thrilled to launch our SIPTEMBER campaign at our Gipps St STREAT Pantry, with support from RF Corval and Knight Frank Australia . We’re incredibly excited to have these organisations on board and are eager to see the positive environmental impact of having a reusable cup system within the building. STREAT provided an insightful overview of the campaign’s significance. Here are some key takeaways: 🗑️ In Australia, only 3–7% of coffee cups are reusable. ☕ Annually, a staggering 1.8 billion coffee cups are disposed of in Australia. At Gipps St Pantry, STREAT has implemented a convenient ‘loan’ system throughout the building, allowing tenants to borrow a keep cup. They return it at the end of the day or leave it on their floor for collection and cleaning overnight. Our goal is to boost our reusable cup usage to 30% at the Gipps Street cafe by making this process as easy as possible. We hope to inspire and empower individuals to embrace reusable cups. Thank you to everyone who joined us! We’re excited to see if Gipps St hits their 30% target! 🎯 #Siptember #Sustainability #ReusableCups #EnvironmentalImpact #STREAT #RFCorval #KnightFrank

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