The perspective you didn’t know you were missing.

Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY), who powers Culture Spring, has been working with multicultural young people, their families and communities since 1988.

That matters when you are choosing who to trust with a conversation this sensitive. We can help your organisation hear the voice of 48% of the population you may not be aware of.

Through our existing network of more than 200 young people and trusted partner organisations - we recruit & prepare multicultural young people to bring their knowledge and lived experience into your research, programs or campaigns. We ensure that they are supported and compensated for their contributions for the value that they deliver.

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The benefits of engaging Culture Spring

Make better decisions. Access lived experience insights that help shape policies, products and services that resonate with multicultural young people.
Increase impact. Design initiatives that are more relevant, effective and responsive to the communities you want to reach.
Build credibility and trust. Demonstrate a genuine commitment to inclusion by involving multicultural young people in decision-making processes.
Save time and resources. Leverage proven engagement methods and decades of expertise to gather meaningful insights efficiently and effectively.

How we work

Scope

Tell us what you’re trying to achieve and who you need to hear from. We help you define the right approach.

Connect

We recruit multicultural young people with relevant lived experience through our trusted community networks, prepare them, and build a culturally safe process around them.

Deliver

Young people lead the engagement. We facilitate, manage and document it, then translate what we hear into outputs your organisation can act on.

Report

Listening goes both ways. At the end of our project, we report back to you as well as the young people involved. Their time and expertise are valuable and we believe it’s important to close the loop on what happens next.

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What you get

Every engagement runs end to end: we help you define the challenge, design a culturally responsive approach, recruit and prepare the right young people, facilitate the engagement, translate what we hear into practical recommendations and outputs you can act on.

Delivery modes

Consultation

Decisions through dialogue

How we do it:

Roundtables
Facilitator-led workshops
Feedback sessions & surveys
Youth advisory groups
Community connection

Co-creation

From insight to innovation

How we do it:

Project steering committees
Design workshops
Solution sprints
Policy recommendation reports
Interactive community engagement initiatives

Co-delivery

Making change happen together

How we do it:

Campaign & creative engagements
Youth-led initiatives
Events & speaking engagements
Advocacy meetings & presentations
Forum and/or summit delivery

Who is this for

If you need a credible partner beyond one-off bias training, and results that the board can see in recruitment, retention or campaign performance, we can help you.
that need evidence that youth strategy funding is actually reaching the communities it targets, in terms the budget committee will accept.
that need genuine engagement before they fund or endorse a program.
that need authentic access to multicultural young people's perspectives and lived experience.
that need cultural insight and community access for a client brief, Culture Spring integrates with your team for the duration of the project, building internal capability and helping ensure your campaign reaches the audience it's intended for.

What our clients say

"You think you can do it. You can't. What Culture Spring brought was the part we couldn't do ourselves."

Daniel Donahoo, Head of Projects, Project Rockit

Frequently Asked Questions

Young people are recruited and paid as expertise, prepared properly, and their insight is translated into outputs you can act on. The process is built into your project from the beginning, not added on afterwards.
Yes. Every organisation's starting point is different. Scope, the first step, is where we help you define the right approach.
It depends on the scope and complexity of the engagement. Once we understand your objectives, audience and timeline, we'll recommend an approach that is realistic and achievable.
Culture Spring recruits young people through CMY and our trusted community and partner networks. We match participants to the needs of each project based on factors such as lived experience, cultural background, location and relevant interests. Young people are properly briefed, supported and compensated for the expertise they bring.
Yes. We regularly design targeted youth engagement processes around particular communities, locations and lived experiences. Tell us who you need to hear from and we can advise on the most appropriate recruitment and engagement approach, including where community partners should be involved.
It depends on what you need to achieve. Culture Spring can deliver consultation and co-design workshops, roundtables, research, recommendations, engagement strategies, creative outputs, campaigns and ongoing advisory support. We don't just bring young people into the room. We help translate their insights into practical outputs your organisation can use.
Every project is scoped to the brief, so costs depend on factors such as the number of young people involved, recruitment requirements, number of sessions, facilitation, project management and final deliverables. We can work with you to design an approach that matches your objectives, timeline and available budget.
Meaningful multicultural youth engagement requires more than finding participants. Culture Spring brings specialist youth engagement expertise, trusted community relationships, culturally responsive facilitation and the systems needed to recruit, prepare, support and compensate young people properly. We manage the engagement from scoping through to delivery and recommendations, helping your organisation get insight that is credible, useful and grounded in lived experience.