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Happy birthday to you, you’re one hundred and two… Well not quite. The Donkey Wheel House where STREAT is based is turning the grand old age of 120 years and the good folks of Donkey Wheel are putting on a bit of a do!

The night will kick off with an open house where you can check out what goes on behind those great wooden doors each day. Then head down to the basement where the drinks will be flowing for the launch of the National Trust Appeal.

Join Donkey Wheel House and celebrate the last 120 years of this amazing space on Saturday 23^rd July from 5pm – 8pm. Full event and ticket information can be found at Donkey Wheel House.

Our awesome urban neighbours Saint & Rogue are stepping back in time to the prohibition era to bring you the Molly Pitcher Club, an event proudly supporting STREAT.

Join Saint & Rogue on Saturday August 27 from 7.30pm and revel in the hot fever of the Molly Pitcher Club with bootleg liquor and badass New Orleans Jazz.

Live entertainment, a large array of canapés, beer, wine and cocktails are all included in your ticket.

Check out Saint & Rogue's Molly Pitcher Club for full event and ticketing info.

This is a huge week at STREAT...

This week we welcome our 50,000 customer to STREAT. We are also welcoming James, Hayley, Louise, Markita, Phoebe, Tanya, Jamila, Brodie, Aaron, Jessica, Aaron, Tayla & Brendan – our fourth class of homeless & disadvantaged youth to STREAT.  

Over the coming seven months they’ll receive training and employment on our food and coffee carts along with life skills and a bunch of personal support. They’ll each receive a minimum of 26 hours of paid employment each week which includes them serving customers like yourself, working in our production kitchen, or studying for their Certificate II in hospitality.

All of this is possible because you – and many others like you – who buy your coffees and meals from us with 100% of profit going towards making homelessness stop for a young person.

Could you be our 50,000^th customer?

This week aim to hit our 50,000^th customer and it could be you! Our 50,000^th customer will receive a free STREAT t-shirt , signed STOP homelessness STREAT sign, and a buy one get one loyalty card, plus we’ll feature you on our website. So come & share a meal or coffee with us at Melbourne Central or Melbourne University for your chance to be our 50,000^th customer.

Other stuff you can do

We frequently get customers asking what else they can do to help. Here’s a few ways:

• Share STREAT with others – the more customers we get, the more youth we help
• Get STREAT to cater your next event 
• Become part of our social media community – subscribe to our updates or join facebook, twitter 
• Buy one of our t-shirts
• Buy our organic, fair-trade coffee blend – it’s perfect for home or work
• Join our team for Run Melbourne 
• Fundraise for STREAT by selling our coffee – perfect for work, schools, organisations
• Donate – we’re a registered charity to every donation over $2 is tax deductible
• Volunteer  - currently we’re looking for creative collaborators, guest bloggers & photographers  
• Be on the look-out for more cart sites – we’re currently looking for more CBD-based sites for either coffee or food. Let us know if you’ve got an idea for one (info@streat.com.au)

Anyway, thanks again for your support and we hope to see you again soon.

Bec Scott & Kate Barrelle

STREAT Co-Founders

Walking through Melbourne University for the first time feels a bit like going on a wild goose chase, and it’s not because of the layout, but because all of the buildings look the same – blonde brick, concrete and blue steel – and not of the Zoolander variety!

As you make your way through to the Melbourne Uni Student Union North Court, a brilliant pop of red greets you, followed by the warmth of our resident pot plants, the sound of funky beats pumping from the cart and the smell of fresh coffee, pungent herbs and sizzling garlic – say hello to STREAT’s latest cafe.

STREAT worked with the talented Ammon Beyerle and Pete Spence from Herestudio Architects to design and craft our new café. The innovative design features walls made from iconic red recycled milk crates that lovingly wrap around our food and coffee carts. The result is visually spectacular!

This is the first time that we have had a sizable piece of real estate that has allowed us to pull off a double site, but does this compromise the STREAT experience? Definitely not!

I’m proud to say that our latest street cafe is a smooth operator that is quickly earning a reputation for the ‘best coffee on campus.’ And coffee that is ‘AMAZING and quick!’ and ‘some seriously good coffee karma for your morning caffeine kick!’ Our gourmet sandwiches are also earning a decent foodie following among students and faculty – we had our very first onsite catering gig just the other day and two loyalty cards have been completed since we opened up just three weeks ago.

Our CEO Rebecca Scott also had a thing or two to say about working on our latest venture. "I’m looking forward to working with Melbourne University Student Union Ltd and I’m proud that this year we’ll give customers over 45 reasons to share a meal or buy a coffee with STREAT at our latest street cafe. They are... Jamie, Bahareh, Andrew, Rayne, Imogen, Jen, Damien, Wren, Maddie, Con, John, Medina, Nathan, Chloe, Susie, Chantelle, Jake... the list goes on!”

Throughout 2011 STREAT will work with 40 homeless youth. Through the support of you – our loyal customers, we will provide 20,000 hours of paid employment to our trainees.

By the end of 2011 STREAT will be serving up to 1,000 customers daily across both of our street cafe sites with a target of hitting the 100,000 coffee served mark by Christmas.

So come on down to see our latest food and coffee cart for yourselves, and help us stop homelessness the delicious way by sharing a meal with us.

Kylie