The Green Fox Food Truck and Pop-Up Café (“Little Foxy”) is a flexible, place-based hospitality and social enterprise platform anchored at the Food Connect Shed. Responding to community feedback, the model combines a weekday pop-up café with a mobile food trailer, enabling training, employment pathways, and enterprise testing for young people (18–25) and women with ...
Green Fox Training Studio
Little Foxy
GOAL
$36,602
Australia > QLD > Metro and Regional
Field of Interest
- Community and economic development
- Education/training and employment
Target Population
- People experiencing socio-economic disadvantage or vulnerability
- Women and girls
Green Fox Training Studio
Green Fox Training Studio began inside a high-security prison, where we witnessed the power of creativity, connection, and enterprise to change lives. That experience continues to shape everything we do. We remain committed to working with incarcerated adults and young people, offering creative education and real pathways forward. But we’re also growing. We now bring these programs into schools, youth services, and community spaces, where early support can make a lasting difference. Our community offerings focus on prevention and early intervention. By working alongside young people, their families and communities, we aim to break cycles of disadvantage and create long-term, intergenerational change. We partner with people who haven’t had the same opportunities, and we challenge the systems that hold them back. Our goal is to build new pathways, creative, inclusive, and full of possibility. From justice settings to community spaces, we’re here to create change that lasts.
Project Summary
The Green Fox Food Truck and Pop-Up Café (“Little Foxy”) is a flexible, place-based hospitality and social enterprise platform anchored at the Food Connect Shed. Responding to community feedback, the model combines a weekday pop-up café with a mobile food trailer, enabling training, employment pathways, and enterprise testing for young people (18–25) and women with lived experience, including those exiting the justice system and CALD communities. The initiative nourishes communities, connects people through food and mentoring, and creates inclusive pathways into decent work while strengthening the Food Connect ecosystem and local micro-enterprises.
We know that if we embed supported, real-world hospitality training within a thriving food ecosystem and pair it with trauma-informed mentoring and micro-enterprise opportunities, participants will gain confidence, skills, and networks that translate into jobs and sustainable self-employment. The mobile trailer and pop-up café provide low-risk, high-visibility activation that benefits participants, tenants, and the wider community.
Project Outcomes
The program addresses the intersecting challenges of trauma, social exclusion, and long-term unemployment, providing a trauma-informed, gender-responsive pathway into further training, employment, and community participation.
The program is informed by evidence-based practice in trauma recovery and social reintegration, embedding relational, strengths-based learning and reflective practice. Participants engage in hands-on workshops, collaborative projects, and simulated workplace scenarios, building practical skills in digital communication, teamwork, and self-management, capabilities directly relevant to a broad range of entry-level roles and further vocational pathways.
The program’s key objectives are to: Deliver accredited, industry-relevant training in digital literacy and soft skills, build job-ready capabilities and recognised credentials for women with complex life experiences.
Provide trauma-informed mentoring and peer support to foster confidence, leadership, and group facilitation skills, ensuring that at least 90% of participants report increased self-efficacy and social connection by program completion.
Embed real-world experience through simulated work environments, digital projects, and collaborative activities led by sector mentors, ensuring 80% of participants achieve at least one accredited qualification or short course credential.
Support participants to explore employment and further training pathways, including direct connections to local employers and opportunities in community services, hospitality, retail, and digital industries, with a target of 70% transitioning into employment, further training, or volunteering within three months of graduation.
Strengthen family and community ties to support reintegration and long-term wellbeing, with ongoing access to peer networks and post-program mentoring.
Budget Breakdown
TOTAL BUDGET: $78,952
FUNDING
| Funding source | Amount |
|---|---|
| Green Fox Studio | $9,385 |
EXPENSES
| Expense item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wages & on-costs | $49,465 |
| Administration & operating | $6,500 |
| Participant supports | $4,140 |
| Training costs (non-accredited) | $2,400 |
| Student co-contribution fees | $1,200 |
| Materials & consumables | $2,280 |
| In-kind contribution | $9,350 |
| Management Fee | $3,617 |
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