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  Reaching for the Skies

St Kilda Youth Service is a not-for-profit organisation committed to providing the most meaningful opportunities to young people experiencing disadvatage.

St Kilda Youth Service (SKYS) has been operating in the City of Port Phillip since 1982. It is a generalist youth service that works with young people who experience disadvantage and have complex needs.

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  Homeless World's Longest Lunch 2011

Over 150 guests from across Melbourne enjoyed the hospitality of Luna Park at the 2011 HEAT Homeless World’s Longest Lunch on Friday 4 March, as part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.

The three course meal designed by HEAT’s Patron Guy Grossi, HEAT executive Chef Arnold Greiner and event partner HEAT Beads® was prepared, cooked and served by HEAT and William Angliss Institute students.

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Guy Grossi with HEAT Students

 

 HEAT Patron Guy Grossi

Guy Grossi is a huge supporter of the HEAT program he regularly visits the students and offers advise and encouragement on their pathways to careers in hospitality.

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 HEAT students complete their final challenge as their course grand finale

Carlo Grossi and Victoria Police Chief Commission Simon Overland experienced the HEAT Student’s new found talents as their 14 week course came to an end. These HEAT Students under the guidance of HEAT Chef Arnold Grenier treated guests to a fine dining experience at Police Victoria’s Airlie Learning Centre last month. Guest enjoyed the culinary delights of Asian influenced tomato broth with blue swimmer crab followed by Lamb shanks, cous cous, beans, olives and gremolata. And for dessert Chocolate tart and raspberry coulis. The next HEAT Course starts on Monday 15 November.
 
 

Gillard can take HEAT, not kitchen
JULIA Gillard may be able to roast an opponent in the parliamentary bear pit, but cooking in a kitchen is a different matter.

"I’m bloody hopeless at it, but I do a good line in toast," she told students at HEAT, a South Melbourne-based initiative that runs cookery courses for young people. "There have been six-month periods where I lived on toasted sandwiches alone," Ms Gillard said. Read full article

The Age - By Miki Perkins
6 August 2009
 
 

Gillard tries hand at chook stuffing
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard might not be a master chef - but she is no chicken.

She smiled bravely as she stuck her hand up a chook's behind and admitted to one of Australia's most eminent culinary figures her speciality is the humble toasted sandwich. Read full article

ninemsn News - By Melissa Jenkin
5 August 2009