youthskillsday2024 Archives

We know that meaningful work can change lives. Creating these opportunities isn’t always straightforward — particularly in a year shaped by uncertainty and external pressures.

Today we release our 2024 Impact Snapshot, a year marked by growth and challenge. Our work with young people continued to expand, reaching more communities across Australia. At the same time, multiple factors including rising living costs, mental health challenges and lower commercial growth made the path to long-term employment even harder for many of the young people we support.

In challenging times, job-focused social enterprises are needed the most. In 2024, 49 young people participated in our Youth Employment Program (YEP) for a total of 34,578 hours, up 3.2% from the year before. 88% of YEP participants maintained employment with Good Cycles for more than 6 months, a key milestone to achieve.

2024 was also the first full year Good Cycles operated across our four established services:

Good Spaces: Large scale green space and asset maintenance services.

Good Deliveries: Specialist last mile deliveries, organic waste services and specialised logistics delivered via e-bikes.

Good Bikes: Bike retail, corporate servicing and tailored micro-mobility services.

Good People: Specialist managed workforce partnerships (labour hire) with value-aligned partners

We remain grounded in the belief that social impact must be meaningful, measured and continually improved. The need for inclusive employment opportunities is only growing, and Good Cycles aims to strengthen the bridge between social enterprise and commercial partners. By nurturing these relationships, we can generate even greater social value while demonstrating the power of purpose-driven business.

We invite you to read our full 2024 Impact Snapshot, which shares insights from young people themselves about the challenges they face, the visions for their future and the results of last year’s collaborative efforts. These voices remind us why this work matters and inspire us to continue building a future where every young person can thrive.

Good Cycles is incredibly proud of our coaches, team leaders and staff who are committed towards creating good jobs for young people.

When we create good workplaces for people who’ve experienced barriers to employment, we’re creating good communities for everyone.

We are proud to release our 2023 Impact Snapshot on July 15 to coincide with World Youth Skills Day, a day the United Nations chose to recognise the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.

2023 was a big year for Good Cycles. We celebrated our 10 Year anniversary, increased our employees by 40%, moved into Sydney (and now Brisbane and the Gold Coast) with our Lime contract. We did all this while redefining and structuring Good Cycles services through four new business divisions, all ideal industries to grow our impact and Youth Employment Program:

Good Spaces: Large scale green space and asset maintenance services.

Good Deliveries: Specialist inner-city deliveries, logistics and sustainability services delivered via e-bikes.

Good Bikes: Bike retail, corporate servicing and tailored micro-mobility services.

Good People: Specialist managed workforce partnerships (labour hire) with value-aligned partners.

Most importantly, we had 52 young people in our Youth Employment Program (up from 29 participants in 2022) for a total of 33,484 hours of paid work (up 45% from 2022).

This snapshot touches on some challenges the young people face and we look forward to expanding our reporting to align with our
23-24 annual report and share more of our research findings in the near future.

We know that young people thrive when given the right opportunities, and we are striving to learn more, adapt and grow together.

We had 52 young people in our Youth Employment Program
up from 29 participants in 2022 for a total of 33,484 hours of paid work up 45% from 2022

Good Cycles is incredibly proud of our team leaders, managers, coaches and mentors that bring their passion and commitment towards helping young people who experience barriers to employment.

Good Cycles is incredibly proud of our coaches, team leaders and staff who are committed towards creating good jobs for young people.

When we create good workplaces for people who’ve experienced barriers to employment, we’re creating good communities for everyone.

We are proud to release our 2023 Impact Snapshot on July 15 to coincide with World Youth Skills Day, a day the United Nations chose to recognise the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.

We had 52 young people in our Youth Employment Program up from 29 participants in 2022 for a total of 33,484 hours of paid work up 45% from 2022

Good Cycles is incredibly proud of our team leaders, managers, coaches and mentors that bring their passion and commitment towards helping young people who experience barriers to employment.

We had 52 young people in our Youth Employment Program
up from 29 participants in 2022 for a total of 33,484 hours of paid work up 45% from 2022