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From hesitant to courageous. Zane entered Magic Moments curious but unsure if he could truly grow. Immersed in a community of trust and connection, he discovered that stepping outside his comfort zone was the key to unlocking his potential. The Summit inspired him to say “yes” to new opportunities, build deeper relationships, and embrace discomfort as a pathway to growth. Returning year after year, Zane continues to strengthen his confidence and purpose, proving the life-changing impact of Magic Moments.
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From feeling unseen to finding her place. Christi walked into Magic Moments unsure of her worth and left with the confidence to shape her future. Surrounded by unconditional acceptance, she discovered a community that became her lifelong support network. Each Summit has fueled growth and self-belief, inspiring Christi to pay it forward as a leader. Today, she helps young people embrace who they want to be, proving the lasting impact of one transformative experience.
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Magic Moments gave Beauie the confidence to lead authentically and embrace their potential. What began as a shy step into Summit became a lifelong journey of growth, purpose, and paying it forward — a transformation now rippling through their career, relationships, and community.
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The Youth Leadership & Business Summit is Australia’s premier leadership event for young people.
Each year we bring 300 participants from around Australia & the World together for 5 days filled with content & experiential learning actvities delivered by speakers & facilitators from around the world (many of them young people themselves).
Our speakers deliver inspiring & engaging content that young people need to know. From sessions on entrepreneurship & money, to living a healthy lifestyle, effective communication and a range of leadership, teamwork skills & tools.
Anyone aged 14-17 at the start of the Summit is encouraged to apply to join the event as a participant.
Our participants are supported by a dedicated team of adults & young people, including attendees from previous years who have returned to step up into leadership roles.
If you’re looking to sponsor a young person to attend or know a young person who deserves a scholarship, please get in touch with us!
The Youth Leadership & Business Summit has been developed by the Magic Moments Foundation to provide our young people with the tools & strategies they need to succeed in an everchanging world.
Our goal is to provide content & education that is missing from traditional school curricula yet is so integral to young people’s ability to grow & develop into the leaders of tomorrow.
We encourage all of our participants to return to their communities & schools & share what the’ve learnt. We also provide them with the opportunity to return to YLBS as a Graduate or Youth Coach in future years, to further their leadership skills and support future participants.
We want to know what your outcome is by being involved with this program, so if you are from any part of the Bendigo Bank Network we encourage you to register your interest using the button below.
Register Your Interest / get in touch!The 2026 event will be held at PGL Campaspe Downs, located in Victoria’s scenic Macedon Ranges, just under an hour from Melbourne. Set on expansive bushland with a central lake, it provides a peaceful and inspiring setting for the week.
PGL Campaspe Downs,
1302 Kyneton–Trentham Road,
Tylden VIC 3444
July School Holidays 2026
Wednesday 8th July – Sunday 12th July 2026
Registration begins at 10am on Day 1, with the event ending at approximately 3pm on Day 5.
Outstanding young people aged 14-17 who are looking to learn strategies and tools.
This is a great opportunity to engage with the youth in your community and see how to create long lasting mutually beneficial relationships to help bring a youth perspective to your Community Bank.
2025 Residential Program:
5 days and 4 nights of amazing speakers, life lessons and knowledge shared to help our young people create strategies to determine and achieve their goals.
Included are all meals (lunch on Day 1 to lunch on Day 5), accommodation & materials.
Only $1899 for 5 days including meals, accommodation and all event & course materials.
This also includes a pre event webinar, the 6 week post event Leadership Challenge and 11 months of post event webinars by our fantastic speakers, keeping everyone on track!
We are currently taking place reservations & expressions of interest from Bendigo Community Banks, Corporate Banks and Youth Foundations who would like to send youth from their community.
Click the Register Your Interest button below
No, you do not need to know which youth you are sending, you just need to reserve the number of places you would like.
We will support you in finding the right youth from your community for your desired outcomes.
Please do not make any travel arrangements for getting to or from the summit until we have spoken with you. We will have coaches to transport youth to and from Melbourne Airport.
We have created a streamlined process to make it simple for Bendigo Bank branches to use Community Enterprise Funds (CEFs) for supporting youth to attend this event.
We will reach out to discuss this further once we have received your place reservations.
Wil is the General Manager of the Magic Moments Youth Leadership & Business Summit. In 2016, Wil was fortunate enough to be sponsored by his local community bank and now lead the Youth Summit program, working with his team to manage all aspects of the partnership between Magic Moments & the Bendigo Banks Network.
wil.massara@magicmoments.org.au – 02 9248 7262
This year marked our biggest group of youth supported by Community Bank partners, with 68 exceptional first-time participants joining the Youth Leadership and Business Summit. We were also thrilled to welcome a new Community Banks into the YLBS family, further growing the reach and impact of this powerful partnership.
Over five days, these young people stepped up, leaned in, and experienced real personal growth. Their confidence, leadership, and communication skills blossomed, and the feedback from Community Bank branches following their return has been inspiring.
Another awesome year for youth from Community Bank Communities.
We had 62 amazing new youth to attend this years program and welcomed 2 new Community Banks into the Summit family.
The young people were all exceptional participants and we were excited to see their transformations over the 5 days. What was more exciting was the reports back from all the Community Banks about the presentations they gave to the boards and AGM on their returns. The growth in these young people was phenomenal.
After 3 years of global upheaval and uncertainty in all things, not just events, we were able to bring back the residential 5 day program and the Community Banks were happy to be back with us. Fifty seven amazing young people from Community Banks across Australia made the trek to Sydney for the 2023 Youth Leadership and Business Summit.
These young people were a little different, but we think everyone was a little different after the craziness of the last 3 years.
But like always they arrived uncertain but left us with certainty in themselves and a wide range of new friends that they will have for life.
In 2020 the world was turned upside down with a global health issue. Unable to provide our annual residential program, like many organisations in the world, the Magic Moments Youth Program moved online.
Being as flexible as possible a 3 day program was delivered to youth to help support them through a time unseen by any adults or youth previously, Our amazing speakers took their best and most relevant content and provided a program that gave young people skills to help support them through trying times.
The Community Banks stepped up to support youth in their community during this time and continued to give their youth an opportunity with attending the Magic Moments Online programs. The youth who participated found value in the program (even though alot of them were very much over online learning).
In 2019 the Community Banks smashed all previous attendance and contributed 65 youth from their communities to attend the program.
In this year we had some new community banks join us and some of our long term supporters significantly increase the number of youth sent.
More exciting is that on returning home a number of the community banks have their past participants creating Alumni Groups for their current and past participants to come together and create even greater support opportunities for the youth in their communities.
The 2018 program was the biggest to date with 176 new attendees, of which 50 were sponsored by Bendigo Community Banks. We had some more interest from NSW & QLD branches that had not previously participated and were excited to have visitors from the Galston CB Branch.
Our graduate program also consisted of 40% of youth who were previously sponsored by Bendigo Community Banks, many of whom had funded their own return. A truly great outcome for their learning and strategy implementation from the previous year.
Forty-three new youth were supported to attend the 2017 summit and it was most exciting to have 3 of the NSW Bendigo Community Banks sending youth in this year.
The number of returning graduates continues to grow, which is always very exciting to see the young people develop further. Feedback from the parents was also exceptional for this year and gratitude was the theme of all the emails and calls we received from the parents.
We also had 2 adults supported to attend the new IGNITE program for adults, enabling them to take back skills to better communicate with youth in their community and to share these skills with others.
An exciting 2016 saw 52 young people supported by the Bendigo Bank Network Members in Victoria and Western Australia attend what was our largest Summit to date.
Even more exciting was that 20 of the youth in our Graduate program were youth originally sponsored to attend their first summit by a Bendigo Community Bank or Foundation and our first youth Coaches graduated – one of them was one of the original youth from 2012 and the Wantirna Community Bank.
We also had a couple of visitors from the NSW Bendigo Team. This was a great outcome for 2016.
We had another 46 youth participate at our first event in Sydney – which was fantastic as 45 of them came from interstate. In our Graduate program we had 16 youth return that had previously been supported to attend by Community Banks and Youth Foundations and all were funded by themselves.
In our leadership team, one of the original youth from 2012 was promoted to the position of Leader and many more were promoted to Youth Leader positions. These young people are now leading the way and paying it forward to the next generations of youth.
46 youth sponsored from across Australia attended and Jasmin Bradshaw from Lead On joined the crew. As the Summit was held in Victoria we were grateful to have many visitors during the week from Community Bank Boards, Branches and Bendigo Corporate teams.
Many attendees from the previous year returned to be a part of the Graduate program, all self-supported and 2 of the young ladies from 2012 were graduated to the Youth Leadership Team – an exceptional result in such a short time.
30 youth and 3 crew – including Lead On’s own Gemma Welch – attended the event held in Noosa in 2013. The word had got out that this was a great way to get youth involved in their community bank and grow leadership skills in the youth that benefit not only themselves but also their communities.
Two of the youth that attended in 2012 returned to the Graduate program self-supported, a great outcome. These young ladies also participated in a number of community projects through the year representing their Bendigo Community Bank.
Since 2012 we have been working to grow and develop this opportunity between the Magic Moments Foundation Youth Programs and the Bendigo Bank Network.
4 young ladies from the Wantirna Community Bank attended our Youth Leadership & Business Summit along with volunteer Crew member and Branch Manager Sarah Thurrowgood.
This summit was held in Brisbane, Malcolm Frizell popped in for an hour to see what the Summit was all about and ended up staying the whole day to help with and provide advice to the business creation teams.
The Magic Moments Youth Leadership & Business Summit is a proud brand within The Youth Impact Foundation
