Redfern School site for ILC National Indigenous Development Centre
At a media conference at the former Redfern Public School the NSW and Federal governments announced that the ILC would proceed to purchase the site from the NSW Department of Education. The details of the media kit and that display boards at the media conference are available here.
These are the Guidelinbes produced in April 2009 for the Youth Advisory Committee to the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (formally NIDC). File is PDF 280Kb.
The groundbreaking education programme of Rev. Bill Crews' Exodus Foundation will be included in the new National Centre for Indigenous Development at Redfern — the plans for which will be announced today.
This is the second of three displays at the ILC Media Conference. This 2.4 MB PDF file shows the current ILC plans for the courtyard. The final plans are still being developed.
This is the third of three displays at the ILC Media Conference. This 150 KB PDF file is a photo of the current ILC plans for the former Redfern School Site. This display panel has not been put up on the ILC site probably due to its reference to the PCYC who has not agreed to move into the new complex. The text on the display is provided seperatly. The final plans are still being developed.
This is the text from the second and third display boards setting out what the ILC is currently proposing for the Former Redfern School Site.
This is the first of three displays at the ILC Media Conference. This 338 KB PDF file of the current ILC plans as a Birds Eye View from West. The final plans are still being developed.
The Exodus Foundation will operate a tutorial centre in newly built, specifically designed classrooms within the future National Indigenous Development Centre.
Plans by the Indigenous Land Corporation to transform the Redfern Public School into the first National Centre for Indigenous development focussing on sporting, educational and social excellence for young people Australia-wide have received strong support.
This is a copy of the main NIDC proposal which was placed on Public exhibition on 17th May 2007 until 15 June 2007. PDF 2.2MB.
The ILC has now created a web page on their site with details of the National Indigenous Youth Development Centre Redfern. The site contains PDF fact sheets on the services that will be using the new centre as well as PDF files of two of the three display boards at the unveiling of plans for the site on 11 July 2006.
This Media statement was issued by the NSW and Australian Governments on 11 July 2006 to announce that the ILC would proceed to purchase the former Redfern Public School site and establish a National Indigenous Development Centre.
The Lloyd McDermott Rugby Development Team was established in 1991 as a way to introduce rugby union to Indigenous male and female youth across Australia.
Indigenous owned and managed Murawina Child Care Centre was established in 1973 and for many years operated from a small terrace property on "the Block". Murawina moved to the former Redfern Public School in 2003 under a long-term lease arrangement with the NSW Department of Education and Training.
David Liddiard, ex rugby league star founded NASCA 10 years ago as a way to connect with young Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders in some of the most disadvantaged communities in Australia. NASCA's aim was to help young Indigenous people understand that they can have dreams – and achieve them.