Footy Club’s Award Winning Huddle For Students

The Huddle is the North Melbourne Football Club engaging and giving back to its community. Since 2010 in the wider North Melbourne community there has been an amazing combination of love of sport and direction/support in study, for students from many war-torn parts of the world now calling Australia home. The North Melbourne Football Club’s Huddle project won:

About The Huddle

The Huddle is a joint initiative of the North Melbourne Football Club, The Scanlon Foundation and the Australian Multicultural Foundation.

Established in 2010, The Huddle, at 204 Arden St, North Melbourne
is a unique learning centre for the community which

“promotes social cohesion through education, IT and sport. It increases opportunities for students to learn beyond school by focusing on 1:1 subject specific tutoring after hours, as well as school programs which centre around: civics and citizenship, oral language development and IT/media skills. This is achieved by exploring identity through place, self and others and digital storytelling. Our programs cater for EAL learners in mainstream and new arrival contexts.”

The Huddle systematically addresses the causes of disengagement among young people, targetting young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds in North Melbourne, Flemington, Kensington, West Melbourne And the City of Wyndham.

An Independent Evaluation

“The Huddle concept is a very powerful idea. (…)What is unique is that all Huddle programs are innovatively designed to foster the participants’ sense of individual identity and sense of self-esteem, a sense of place and belonging, improved health and well being and the poisitive benefits of participation: whether it be on the sporting field or the classroom or even as spectators. The young person benefits, as do their parents and the broader community.”

Read about A Day In The Huddle
Find out about the Schools Programs

Excellent concept