ADCC

Coal & Allied, in partnership with the Upper Hunter Valley Aboriginal Community, launched the Aboriginal Development Consultative Community (ADCC) in 2006.

The ADCC is a funding programme accessible by any Aboriginal person or group in the Upper Hunter Valley region undertaking a project to benefit the wider Aboriginal community.

Through the ADCC, Coal & Allied has been supporting education, training, community and business development projects for Aboriginal people in the Upper Hunter Valley for two years. The ADCC operates under a set of guidelines established and agreed to by the Upper Hunter Valley Aboriginal Community and Coal & Allied.

The projects funded are those most likely to deliver long term, sustainable outcomes for the Upper Hunter Valley Aboriginal Community and applications may be made by members of the Upper Hunter Valley Aboriginal Community including the areas of Singleton, Muswellbrook and Upper Hunter.

Projects funded in 2007 were:

Families Learning Together programme
Kawal Education and Cultural Resource Centre $80,100

Community shopfront
Ungooroo Aboriginal Corporation $52,000

Indigenous coordinator seed funding
Capability Resources $61,000

2007 Secondary education assistance grants
Scone High School $15,000
Merriwa Central School $1,000
Singleton High School $3,500
Muswellbrook high School $2,250
 
2007 Tertiary education assistance
Fiona Johnson $2,500

2007 Tertiary education assistance
Aimee Miller $2,500

Indigenous Mentoring Programme
2007 Singleton High School $9,800

Community celebration and art competition
NAIDOC Week $4,400

Cricket skills development
Duncan Paget $6,000

Indigenous Jobs Market
Hunter Area Consultative Committee $10,000

Indigenous Music Programme
St James Primary $9,800

Croc Fest 2007
Merriwa Central School $4,000

Acknowledging the high priority Aboriginal people place on education, the ADCC has also developed a special annual scholarship programme for Aboriginal secondary school students in the Upper Hunter Valley.