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How can you help?
The Youth Enterprise Trust's family of individual, organisational and corporate supporters appeal to you to join them in to assist and sustain our work with young people. You can help through:
Advocating and assisting a young person to apply for the YET Programme.
Donating to enable YET to reach more participants.
Hands-on help with others from the wider community who bring special skills and/or a big heart to YET Working Bees at Woodstock.
Applying to be an Off-Sider with a Graduate in their Off-Sider Phase
Connecting YET Graduates with other opportunities.
Partnering with YET to achieve mutual gain
Advocating
Simply passing information about YET onto a young person who might benefit is not enough.
Young people need a hand to apply. Can you help someone you know to apply?Click here for the YET Programme's Application Form
We also need a hand to inform young people and carers, agencies and youth workers about the YET Programme. Please share this site with them.
Donating:
All donations make a real difference to both the conduct of the Programme and the long-term sustainability of Youth Enterprise Trust.
Non-financial Support: We constantly depend on the kindness of friends and strangers. Because we direct as much money as possible towards sending young people on the Programmes, there are things we can't afford to buy.
If you are able to assist with any items from our wishlist - or any serviceable items/equipment with practical use around the yard, a rural property, a workshed or office please contact us.
Our Programmes are tough on clothes too. Participants are sometimes unable to bring the clothes needed for the Programme, we try to assist by having spare clothes like strong long-sleeved shirts and pants, thick socks and jumpers available.
Financial Support: A contribution to YET, no matter what the amount, will help more young people complete the Programme and maybe go on to start on a new direction in life.
Click here to make a donation.
Hands-on Help:
Woodstock, a 300 acre property on the Albert River near Tamborine, is home to the Youth Enterprise Trust - and to the Kurrajong Phase of the YET Programme.
"Woodstock Working Bees" are community events that are held several times per year and are really a celebration of cooperative community spirit. People from down the road and people from public life, business people and Graduates, Working Bees involve putting in as part of team to help with:
- Improvements and maintenance of Woodstock
- Production of items for Kurrajong Enterprises
- Projects for the wider community through Kurrajong Services
Click here to register your interest
Assistance with administration, trade and maintenance are all vital and needed throughout the year, as this help allows our resources to be focussed on future Programmes.
Click here to register your interest
Applying to be an Off-Sider:
The Off-Sider Phase involves a volunteer (the "Off-Sider") who has been selected and matched to a young person who has graduated from the Kurrajong Phase of our Programme.
The key role is to maintain consistent contact with a Graduate for the 12 months following graduation - encouraging them to pursue the personal and vocational goals they set for themselves in their Personal Action Plans. The contact only occurs through a weekly phone call to the Graduate and at Working Bees meetings of Off-Siders, Graduates and YET staff at Woodstock, to review process and revise action plans.
There is a strict application and selection process for applicants. The first step is to submit an Application Form.
Applicants will be invited to attend an Orientation session at Woodstock, which is where our participants are based for the second and third weeks of the Programme - the Kurrajong Phase. The Orientation session is an opportunity to understand the Programme and the specific responsibilities and boundaries of the Off-Sider role, as well as to meet YET staff and to tour the farm. You can then make your own assessment as to whether you wish to proceed with your application. Each Applicant is then briefly interviewed.
Attending the Orientation session or interview is not an indication that you will be offered an Off-Sider role - final selection of Off-Siders is made by YET staff after interview and for which there is strictly no appeal or feedback available.
If selected, an Off-Sider will be matched as sensitively as possible to a Graduate by YET staff. After signing an agreement on the role's boundaries, Off-Siders receive a brief profile of their Graduate, a copy of their Personal Action Plan and a list of relevant contact numbers.
You may get to meet your Graduate/s during one of our famous Woodstock Working Bees. This will be a chance to meet each other in an informal "sleeves-rolled-up" occasion - while making a practical contribution to the Kurrajong Enterprises at Woodstock. Contact with your Graduate/s will then only be by telephone until the next meeting at Woodstock.
Connecting:
A YET Programme isn't a fix-all cure.
And so often the number one thing on Graduates' Personal Action Plans is to take first steps towards finding a meaningful job.
Please let us know if you can offer:
- work experience / training / employment within your company
- access to vocational guidance or counseling services
Click here to register your interest
Partnering:
For larger businesses, a partnership with YET can be a much richer relationship than simply making a financial donation. Opportunities for direct practical involvement of staff (and suppliers and customers) with the work of the Trust can create and strengthen connections across the community.
Click here to register your interest