About The Huddle

The Vision

The Huddle is a modern and innovative educational and community facility embedded within the North Melbourne Football Club. The focus of the Huddle is to enhance social cohesion by addressing youth disengagement in the local area, and to re-define the way in which sporting organisations interact with their communities..

The Huddle embodies the North Melbourne Football Club’s engagement with its local community through its aims to:
- Create community value
- Enhance an existing community asset
- Run community and sports programs
- Develop sustainable community initiatives
- Generate economic activity and employment
- Improve environmental outcomes

Further still, ‘The Huddle’ brand has grown to represent all of North Melbourne’s community, education and social responsibility activities, not just in the club’s own facility but also in Ballarat and through Melbourne’s North and Western suburbs..

North Melbourne brings people together to learn and develop in varied programs, whether in The Huddle classroom, on the famous turf of the Arden Street Oval, in schools, clubs, businesses and community organisations. This plays an important role in bridging gaps in rapidly growing and diverse communities.

“North Melbourne has always been a club that is in-meshed within its local community - a club that cares for its local community.”
John Brumby, Premier of Victoria

Governance

The Huddle is an important community facility supported by significant resources from the North Melbourne Football Club, the Scanlon Foundation ,the Australian Multicultural Foundation and the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

An eight-member Advisory Committee (AVC) guides and supports The Huddle, providing essential strategic direction and accountability mechanisms required by stakeholders. AVC members provide their services on a pro bono basis. The Advisory Committee members are:

• Mr. Peter Scanlon, Scanlon Foundation, Chair
• Ms. Pamela Macklin, Board Member, Deputy Chair
• Mr. Eugene Arocca, Board Member representing the North Melbourne Football Club
• Dr. Hass Dellal, Board Member, representing Australian Multicultural Foundation
• Mr. Drew Petrie, representing players of the North Melbourne Football Club
• Ms. Elleni Bereded-Samuel, representing the Education sector
• Ms. Faten Mohamed, representing the Youth community
• Mr. Denis Moriarty, Managing Director, Our Community, representing the Community Development sector

Ex officio members
• Mr. Mark Brayshaw, Board Member, North Melbourne Football Club
• Dr Sonja Hood, General Manager, North Melbourne Learning and Life Centre
• Mr. Tony Fry, Advisory Committee Secretary and Scanlon Foundation representative

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