WELCOME TO GARDEN CAFÉ!
In the heart of the picturesque Maroochy Bushland Botanical Gardens, you will find Compass’s Garden Café. Established in 2017, Garden Café offers a range of light snacks and sweet treats, including Deharn’s world-famous home-made scones, along with coffee, tea, milkshakes, ice creams and seriously soul-warming hot chocolates!
Like the Compass Connections Cafés, Garden Café was founded as part of a vision to provide meaningful vocational opportunities for people with disabilities looking for real-world café and hospitality experience. Garden Café has provided support for over 35 Trainees to date through the development of real-world skills across food preparation, cooking, coffee making, customer service and money handling. For our Trainees, being able to learn these skills and serve their community every day is a dream come true!
SHOP WHILE YOU SIP!
Garden Café also has something extra special about it – we have integrated a select range of beautiful hand-crafted items from our boutique retail store, Wabi Sabi Creations. You will find jewellery, pottery, chopping boards, hampers and much more, all made by our very own Trainees from across our Compass campuses.
Stop by and surround yourself with greenery and some heart-felt smiles and conversations, while you enjoy a coffee and a treat – and maybe even a little something special to bring home to a loved one!
For more information about what’s on offer at Compass, or to chat to someone about beginning your journey with us, please fill out the below details and our team will be in touch really soon.
BECOME A TRAINEE
trainee stories
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Meet Trainee Nienna
When we were first looking at options for Nienna after finishing at Special School, the most important thing for us was finding somewhere that would help her work towards more independence.
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Meet Trainee Caitlin
It’s a smile we all love – not just Compass staff, but also, pretty much every visitor that comes to Compass Farm knows Caitlin, as she’s often the first to greet them and make them feel welcome with her big and vibrant personality.
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Meet Trainee Dylan
He has gained more confidence and become more adaptable to ever-changing situations. He has connected with his peers and trainers and become quite a happy young man.
Garden Café
- 51 Palm Creek Road, Tanawha, QLD
- Mon – Fri (7:00am – 2:30pm)
- 0490 387 611
- [email protected]
our enterprises
Compass Connections Café in Nambour offers a full breakfast and lunch menu, along with tasty treats all made in-house with LOVE and served with a smile and lots of laughs by our amazing team of Trainees and café staff!
Compass Connections Café Maroochydore is centrally located in Baden Powell Street and offers a full breakfast and lunch menu, along with tasty treats all made in-house with LOVE and served with a smile and lots of laughs by our amazing team of Trainees and café staff!
Located in the picturesque Maroochy Bushland Botanical Gardens, Compass Garden Café offers an oasis of relaxation accompanied by coffee, tea, milkshakes and the warmth of our Trainees and team. Be sure to try Deharn’s famous home-made scones!
Located at Compass Farm, Harvest Kitchen is a commercial-style kitchen that offers catering services to the Farm and also produces a wide range of beautiful home-made condiments including jams, chutneys, pickles, sauces and flavoured salts, which are sold to the public as speciality hampers. Produce can also be found in our Garden Café and Wabi Sabi Creations.
Located in the heart of Nambour at C-Square, Wabi Sabi Creations is a unique store selling hand-crafted creations made by Compass Trainees from across our many campuses – from pottery, to woodwork, paintings, hampers and more – you won’t be disappointed!
Rakes and Panes is a property maintenance service that covers lawn and garden maintenance along with window cleaning. Our Trainees, along with Compass Farm Trainer Jack, are only too happy to service your residential or commercial property for you at competitive rates and of course – always with a smile!
