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This article about TRACTION's upcoming one-day bicycle workshops at Yarrabilba featured yesterday in the Albert & Logan News. TRACTION will deliver 3 workshops in the Yarrabilba community in 2018. The workshops are supported by Lend Lease and Bendigo Bank, will provide an experience that young people will never forget and:
The first workshop is Friday 23rd February. TRACTION Mentors facilitate each workshop and provide technical assistance and participants are also supported by community volunteers who provide positive role-modelling. The workshops are perfect for those interested in learning more about bicycle mechanics and maintenance. Participants will disassemble, re-assemble and quality-check a bicycle (second-hand, donated by the community) and get to keep the bicycle at the end of the day.
Bookings are essential. For details visit: Event webpage: Click HERE Facebook: Click HERE  It was a pleasure for TRACTION to deliver a 4-day Bicycle Build Boot Camp for the fourth group of participants from Access Community Services (ACS) in December 2017 at the Moorooka workshop. Access Community Services is one of Australia’s leaders in multicultural issues, with over 30 years of experience in the provision of settlement, employment, training, youth support services, housing and social enterprise opportunities for migrants, refugees and Australian born clients. Services are delivered right across Queensland with a particular focus on the South East, including Logan City, Ipswich City and the Gold Coast. The TRACTION Bicycle Build boot camp experience provides the chance for young people from the ACS network to strip down, assemble and personalise a bicycle donated by the community and keep the bicycle at the conclusion of the program. The boot camp also provided the chance for participants to have fun whilst learning new skills and making new friends, build confidence and self-belief, and build practical and life skills. YOUTH mentoring program TRACTION has proven both effective and inspirational for five students in grade eight from Yeronga State High School. The students are recent graduates of the TRACTION Bicycle Build program and have all indicated an eagerness to develop further skills following their recent experience with the not-for-profit community initiative. Their skills will be further developed in the TRACTION Small Engines program, which will run during term four of 2017 at Traction’s Moorooka workshop.
Yeronga State High School Head of Department of Junior Secondary Matthew Petersen said the students are influenced by the hands-on approach TRACTION presents, as well as the sense of achievement they get from seeing a project through from start to finish. “Students gain a sense of pride in their work as they see a project through from conception to completion,” Mr Petersen said. “It builds resilience in students and shows them that results require hard and sometimes repetitious work.” Mr Petersen said the students have adapted the skills of teamwork, communication, persistence, concentration, pride in work and social engagement from the TRACTION program. “The students present themselves more maturely and can discuss their progress on a different level, which leads to more meaningful discussions around goal setting and classroom growth,” he said. “I am hoping students participating in the Small Engines program will get a stronger sense of the importance of concentrating on the accuracy and precision of work, and how that translates into the way they approach classroom tasks.”  The Small Engines program is backed by the Australian division of leading car, marine, motorcycle and power equipment manufacturer Honda Australia.
Honda has provided six identical lawnmowers and new motorcycle engines for TRACTION mentors to teach basic repair and maintenance. TRACTION founder Sandy Murdoch is excited about participants gaining access to industry-relevant experience through Honda’s own exemplary training resources. “This represents an exceptional opportunity for TRACTION participants to acquire new skills that will position them superbly for future employment,” Mr Murdoch said. Honda’s General Manager for the Motorcycle Division Peter Singleton said the company decided to sponsor TRACTION as it fits with the group’s corporate social responsibility focus to support the next generation. “TRACTION contributes to helping young people understand the diverse community and raises awareness that the community does value young people and that these values are widely held,” Mr Singleton said. “TRACTION not only exposes young people to diversity, but builds their confidence, helps them discover new talent and understand the structure and value of teamwork and collaboration.” The Small Engines Program will initially operate out of TRACTION’S Moorooka workshop, the space for which is provided free of charge by owner of Pro Motorcycles Moorooka, John Peterson, who is also a distributor for Honda. “TRACTION helps take young people off the streets and doing something outside of the school atmosphere that will benefit them in the future,” Mr Peterson said. “At the Moorooka workshop, youth are working in a real business environment – this is not a school but a program where people experience a real working operation.” Mr Peterson has contributed the support and technical expertise of Pro Motorcycles’ mechanics and apprentices to aid TRACTION mentors and participants with their projects. Mr Peterson himself will be spending time with the Small Engine program participants this term, sharing his experience with motorcycle engines and small motors. Participants in the program will be introduced to basic mechanical concepts and will learn to strip down and rebuild Honda ‘postie’ motorcycles, whilst developing new skills that will position them well for work experience and further training down the track. TRACTION is a charitable program and appreciates community support. To sponsor a participant in the program, please click HERE. Thank you to the Redland City Bulletin for featuring this story about the LIONS Club of Capalaba's support for TRACTION. Thanks to President Jan for leading the charge! Click HERE to see the online version.  On Sunday 16th July, the top 12 Bike Mechanics from national bicycle retail group “99 Bikes” donated 3 hours of their time to TRACTION. The 99 Bikes team spent time providing technical training to selected TRACTION participants, mentors, family and friends, at both our Capalaba and West End workshops. Attendees had the chance to learn from the best in the business about specific technical and mechanical topics, but also got the chance to hear about career opportunities in the industry and what it’s like working with 99 Bikes.
 Our latest eNews will be broadcast tomorrow. Click on the image below to see it.  We’re always grateful for support from the community that helps connect TRACTION participants to ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experiences. Fifteen TRACTION mentors, participants and family members were fortunate to see an elite field of cyclists racing at the new Anna Meares Velodrome on Friday night. The brand-spanking-new cycling circuit at the Sleeman Sports Complex in Brisbane is a seriously impressive facility, and it was fantastic to see it put through its paces at the race two of the 2017 Friday "Track Racing League". Special thanks to Jamie Share of the Ipswich Cycling Club for securing complimentary tickets to the event for the TRACTION team and being generous enough to take us on a ‘behind the scenes’ tour of the facility. Jamie even took the team up close to the riders and their machines in their Riders Only section at the centre of the track, to see the riders warm up/cool down and make adjustments to their bikes. It was the first time that many of the TRACTION team had attended an indoor cycling race event. There was a range race formats on show, including scratch races, elimination events, heart starters, keirin races, sprint derbies and a highlight was seeing current individual pursuit world champion Jordan Kerby have a crack as a world fastest lap! We also met other characters of the local cycling scene, including Keith Ham who showed his pride and joy, an old school racer which he still impressively rockets around the track, and Scott Smith whose impressive beard poses no hinderance to slick times.
For more information about Cycling Queensland’s “Friday Night Tracking Racing League”, visit http://qld.cycling.org.au or Facebook @cyclingqueensland. Cycling Queensland provide opportunities for the public to ride on the velodrome at “Come and Try” sessions. Click here for more details. For more details about the Ipswich Cycling Club, visit online at http://ipswichcyclingclub.org.au, on Facebook or email Jamie Share, Club Secretary, at secretary@ipswichcyclingclub.org.au Heartfelt thanks to the crew at Channel 7's The Great Day Out for featuring this story about TRACTION on the show last night. It's a privilege, a lot of fun and plenty of learning being part of the TRACTION team, and support that helps get the word out about what we're doing to help empower young people in need is fantastic. Click on the image below to watch the show on YouTube, or click here to see and share the Facebook version Click here to see the short, promo version. Watch the full storySee the promo version About "The Great Day Out" Click on the links to follow the show: Facebook: @TheGreatDayOut Instagram: @TheGreatDayOut Visit website  Six TRACTION participants from Clairvaux MacKillop College, aged between 12-15 years, were treated to a special visit from Brisbane members of business network Entrepreneurs’ Organisation (“EO”) last Friday. The event was the initiative of Belinda Vesey-Brown, CEO of local strategic creative agency Brio Group, who as part of her 40th birthday celebrations in 2017 is paying it forward with 40 acts of kindness in the community. Joining her at TRACTION were four other EO members and business owners, Gerard Murtagh, Rohan Wood, Geordie Skinner and John Williamson. There were special guests aplenty as the visit by EO members coincided with Benieka and Sarah from Equity Trustees dropping by the Moorooka workshop to see the TRACTION program in full flight. The students from Clairvaux MacKillop are engaged in the TRACTION Bicycle Build program, which provides the chance for participants to refurbish a bicycle donated from the community over an eight to ten week period as part of their school curriculum. Students get to experience a sense of success, build confidence and develop practical, team and interpersonal skills. Students showed the five EO members how they are progressing with their bike build projects. A bit like ‘speed dating’, students got the chance to spend time with each guest, with conversations flowing back and forth over the workshop bench. The visit provided the opportunity for a little mentoring, as the guests shared some of their life stories, including challenges overcome and lessons learnt. The students presented each visitor with a TRACTION cap as a gesture of thanks, with Kasey, the Team Leader on the day, making the formal presentation. It’s wonderful when the business community gets behind TRACTION. Participants feel like the people are taking an interest in them and care about the futures they are building for themselves. So well received were these special guests that students declared them “COOL AS!”. Heartfelt thanks to the EO team and Equity Trustees visitors for giving so generously of their time. A particular thanks to those that provided their impressions on video - please see below. If you would like to get involved with TRACTION, please Contact Us or visit our Support Us page to find out more about the help we need. ABOUT “EO” www.eonetwork.org The Entrepreneurs' Organisation (EO) is a global business network of 12,000+ business owners in 163 chapters and 52 countries. Founded in 1987 by a group of young entrepreneurs, EO enables business owners to learn from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life. ABOUT EQUITY TRUSTEES www.eqt.com.au Equity Trustees was established as an independent Trustee and Executor company in 1888 and has become one of Australia’s largest specialist trustee companies. It offers a diverse range of financial and fiduciary services and helps private and corporate clients grow, manage and protect and transfer their wealth, across generations. It specialises in helping clients with their philanthropic affairs so they can support worthy causes and make a difference.
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