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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 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

🍹 Ready to turn everyday ingredients into a delicious drink? This Friday we are hosting a unique workshop at the Moving Feast kitchen on how to make ‘Kombucha and Cordial’.   Join us for our third Kitchen Alchemy workshop, where we make delicious kombucha flavoured with the sometimes-overlooked parts of fruit and herbs, that are too good to waste. We’ll also be making cordial from citrus skins that makes a refreshing non-alcoholic aperitif or a tasty addition to cocktails.    Learn how to turn citrus peels, herbs, apple skins, and more into delicious drinks! Run by MAKE Studios Melbourne in collaboration with STREAT and Moving Feast Victoria, this workshop is part of our waste-saving project, Crowd Sauce, supported by Sustainability Victoria. Your instructors will be MAKE's food system and low-waste cooking champion, Fiona Smith and STREAT's eco-chef, Chris Locke.    In this 45-minute, hands-on workshop in the Moving Feast Kitchen at the Purpose Precinct, you’ll cook along, making your own kombucha and cordial to take home, and learning tips and tricks to help you continue your kombucha-making adventures.   Spaces are limited, so act fast! Choose from our 1 pm or 3 pm sessions and be part of this unique, eco-friendly experience.   🎟️ Reserve your spot now and don’t miss out on this chance to blend sustainability with flavour! Book here: https://lnkd.in/gw2t-xaT

🌱 Get ready—SIPTEMBER is just around the corner! Join us in driving impactful, lasting change for our planet. This year we're excited to be aiming high to increase reusable cup use across STREAT's sites to 40%, but to have the most impact we can't do it alone! Siptember is our annual campaign, run in September that is designed to foster sustainable habits by promoting the use of reusable cups for sipping throughout the month and beyond. 🙇♀️ If you sign up to Siptember we will send you through a ‘toolkit’ of all the assets you need to be involved. This includes posters, weekly impact reports and any useful information you need to host a successful Siptember campaign. 🥤 Last year we prevented 1,200 disposable coffee cups from going to landfill. This extrapolates to preventing more than 17,000 disposable coffee cups from going to landfill annually. 🖊️ Sign up as a hospitality or corporate business to join our campaign. Make the month of September matter and spread the word over socials! If you would like more information on our campaign find our webapge here: https://lnkd.in/gj2rianE or fill out the form: https://lnkd.in/gssvF3Tz