Woodstock - Future Vision

YET are exploring the creation of a social enterprise model as an ongoing business guided by a social purpose to support and benefit disadvantaged people. The social enterprise will exist to benefit the public, community and environment, aiming to reinvest most of the profits for the purpose of betterment of the natural environment and the provision of training and/or learning opportunities for disadvantaged people.

  • Through a social enterprise model, our aim is to establish opportunities to support disadvantaged people on site at Woodstock Farm that includes:

  • Innovative Educational Hub (Flexi-Program and Entrepreneurship)

  • Social Enterprise Coffee Container (Lendlease)

  • New youth space to support programs (In-Tent for Change/CEA/Project Booyah)

  • Adventure Education Precinct (Emu Gully)

  • Weddings/Functions within our recently renovated Marquee overlooking the natural amphitheatre and Tamborine mountain range

  • Farm Stay in Eco-Cabins and camping opportunities within Bell Tents

  • Fundraising Events in our Amphitheatre, on popular trend with outdoor events in the region

  • Management of our cattle/breeding as part of our Agriculture approach

  • Environmental Project (World As I Am/QTFN)

Check out our CEO; Ian Frame, chatting with Bluey from 101FM about all things YET & Woodstock!!

YET - Valued Partners

Strategic Partnerships

Since May 2022, YET have proudly formed strategic partnerships with the following:

Training & Education Partnerships

Since May 2022, YET have proudly formed several partnerships to activate Woodstock Farm as a community asset. This includes the creation of partnerships to enable our masterplan whilst providing benevolent relief to disadvantaged young people. Listed below are our ongoing training & educational partnerships :

  • Education Queensland

  • Department of Employment, Small Business & Training (Skilling Queenslanders for Work)

  • Emu Gully

  • Mini Farm Project

  • Careers Employment Australia

  • Communify

  • ADRA

  • ECOllaboration

  • Aurora Training Institute

  • Axiom Training College

  • Wildlife Queensland Platypus Network

  • Construction Training College

  • PCYC

  • Morgans Foundation

  • LendLease

  • Philanthropic Donor (McDonald & Pembroke)

  • Ningana Trust

  • Hand Heart Pocket

  • Freemasons Queensland

  • Logan City Council

  • QTFN & The World As I Am

  • Minter Ellison

  • Land For Wildlife

  • Yalari Foundation

  • Beenleigh Rotary

  • Logan Village Lions

  • Substation 33

  • Bendigo Bank

  • Powertech

  • RSPCA

  • Tourism Lab

  • Land For Wildlife

  • Blazade

  • Griffith University

  • Happy Paws Happy Hearts

  • Queensland Police Services

  • Queensland Koala Crusaders

  • Department of Environment & Science

  • Bunnings Warehouse

  • L&S Builders

  • Eureka Landscapes

  • RPS

  • RWA Sports Architecture

  • Seymour Whyte

Our History

The Youth Enterprise Trust (YET) is a Queensland based charity established in 1990 by Lloyd Hancock. YET’s goals and objects are to assist disadvantaged young people through the application of the Trust’s Funds, including Woodstock, to

  • the general benefit of all young members of the Australian community

  • raising self-esteem, self-reliance, and work motivation

  • deepen appreciation of Australia’s natural environment and encourage practical expression of conservation values

  • practical encouragement as to small business, job opportunities and training

Youth Enterprise Trust (YET) traditionally ran a unique youth program where participants discovered a sense of belonging to the country in which they live and a sense of worth and practical purpose within themselves.

Hosted at Saddlers Springs, west of Carnarvon Gorge and some 12 hours from the SEQ major metropolitan hubs, the methodology involved a three-part Wilderness Experience that transitioned young people from the dependence of adolescence to the self-reliance, choice and responsibility of adulthood.

  • Wilderness Experience involving the “walk in’ (submission), the work phase and the Moffat Mountain (Liberation) stage.

  • The Kurrajong Phase based at Woodstock where young people prepared and planned for returning to their home communities.

  • The Mentoring Phase – where the trust matched each participant with a mentor who provided ongoing support and encouragement.

In 2009, as the key YET program became a financial struggle post the GST, YET merged the program operational side with a similar Victorian charity named Evolve (formerly Typo Station). After a number of years, Evolve folded and the property returned to the control of YET.

YET then partnered for 5 years until late 2019, with Edmund Rice Education Australia and worked with them in attempts to establish a Flexible Learning Center at Woodstock. YET and EREA identified the need for this style of school but internal issues meant this has been paused for the foreseeable future.

Whilst identifying the educational opportunities at Woodstock, YET now looks to develop the property into a world class community asset focusing on Improving the lives of young people through the engagement with the environment, education and entrepreneurship