About Youth Tree Inc.

We are a youth-led nonprofit based in Perth, Western Australia

We exist to permanently embed doing good into youth culture.

Our mission is to use creativity and fun to involve young people in volunteering, active citizenship and all other forms of making positive change.

Our vision is a world where doing good is as mainstream as cheeseburgers and breathing.

We are:

Volunteers (and soon some paid staff) aged 16-30 - but we’re not that into age limits

Non-religious, not-for-profit, non-political, non-sense, non sequitur, lemmings

Loving and creative

Friends not “colleagues”

Good at balancing our love of doing excellent work and getting the details right with our love of childish stupidity (e.g. building cubbies and running handstand contests at formal events)

Convinced that most young people actually care about things bigger than themselves, but often just don’t know where or how to channel their goodwill

Passionate about giving young people avenues to do the good they already want to do in their local and global communities

Convinced that young people are our most untapped resource for positive change

Growing what’s good, not fixing what sucks

Always asking ourselves why we do things the way we do, because there’s probably a better way

Fueled by idealism and grounded in pragmatism

A democracy not a dictatorship (that doesn’t mean everyone votes on everything)

Committed to sustainability and social justice

Committed to self-improvement and walking our talk, so we’ll shut up now and go do some work

Video: The Be Nice, Be Friends Revolution

Using a combination of personal stories, hard statistics and childish illustrations, Founder and Childlike Enthusiasm Officer [CEO] of Youth Tree Inc., Tim Kenworthy unravels the ideas driving Youth Tree Inc.’s work. Don’t look too closely, this presentation isn’t wearing any undies.