The Partners

The Millers Point Youth and Employment Partnership is a vibrant partnership between local residents, business and community groups in Sydney’s Millers Point. We have come together as neighbours to enhance the lives of young people in our inner city community.



Partner organisations include:

City of Sydney
Fort Street Primary School
Housing NSW
KGV Recreation Centre
Lend Lease
Millers Point Resident Action Group
Millers Point Youth Centre
Sydney Cove Rotary
Sydney Secondary College - Balmain Campus
The Rocks Chamber of Commerce
The Rocks Local Area Command
TAFE NSW Sydney Institute, Ultimo College
Westpac


The Partnership Committee

The Partnership Committee is a group of people who represent our Partner organisations in the Millers Point area. MORE


The Board

The Millers Point Youth and Employment Partnership Board meets quarterly to sign off the Business Plan and approve expenditure as required. MORE


About Us

Our Vision

With a focus on youth and their families, we work together as a community to enhance life at Millers Point.


Our Mission

We harness the strengths of the community to achieve outcomes that make a sustainable difference to the Millers Point community.


Our Core Values

Collaboration: We bring together the collective talents, desires and opinions of the community and MPYEP members.

Respect: We respect the uniqueness, needs and dignity of young people, volunteers, the community and MPYEP members.

Relationships: We value strong relationships and understanding between groups, and see this as the foundation for change, both within the MPYEP and between the MPYEP and the community.

Choice: We seek to extend the options available to young people, empowering them to make choices.

Fun: We welcome laughter and fun as the key to good relationships, change and sustainability.

Excellence: We provide high quality, safe, innovative programmes and operate with integrity and professionalism.

Our Goals

It is our long term aspiration that the young people of Millers Point:


  • have confidence, positive self-esteem and feel empowered to make life choices,
  • are actively engaged in the community,
  • are in employment, where employment is their choice,
  • undertake training and education willingly, and
  • are well respected by the local residents, businesses, visitors, community services and their families.


It is our long -term aspiration that the Millers Point Youth and Employment Partnership is:


  • a successful, sustainable organisation.
  • respected by the young people and the local community.
  • a model of youth participation in decision making and leadership.
  • a model for collaboration, collective management and community engagement.
  • an advocate for innovative public/private partnerships.



The Millers Point Youth and Employment Partnership would like to thank the following partners for their collaboration:


City of Sydney & Millers Point Youth Centre

The City of Sydney's Millers Point Youth Centre has been closely involved with the Millers Point Youth & Employment Partnership since its
establishment in 2004. The City of Sydney supports the Partnership's goals of building and promoting connections between local businesses
and young people in the Millers Point community. The Partnership encourages and facilitates young people to engage in educational and
employment focused programs. These programs have included highly successful initiatives such as Activate leadership camp, Rocksfest and the
Build your own Bike. As a result employment opportunities have been created, vital skills developed, and positive role models and leaders
placed within the Millers Point community.


Fort Street Primary School

Fort Street Public School is the only school in Millers Point. We are situated on top of Observatory Hill in Upper Fort Street.
The school enjoys being an active part of the Millers Point Community. The Millers Point Youth Partnership works closely with the school
operating programs such as our Reading Friends Program and Transition to High School. Students from our school also the
partnerships programs such as Activate. These programs, help local young people develop their potential in a positive and fun way
and are a great asset to our community’s youth.


Housing NSW

Housing NSW is proud to be a partner in this worthwhile organisation. It presents opportunities for Millers Point
and The Rocks young people including those in families who are currently residing in Housing NSW accommodation, to achieve their full potential
through success at school and training opportunities for future employment.


KVG Recreation Centre

KGV has been the 'backyard' for Millers Point children and youth for over 70 years. The Centre’s long association with the community
continues through its involvement with the MPYEP in an advisory capacity, and as a resource for running partnership programs.
KGV is also a source of employment for local youth.


Lend Lease

The Lend Lease head office at 30 The Bond, 30 Hickson Road, in the middle of the Millers Point community. While planning our move to
this location in 2003, we formed strong relationships with our local residential neighbours and hence began to understand the unique nature of this
community and the need for supporting local young people in their quest for employment and community engagement. We saw
establishing the Partnership to meet this need as our opportunity and our responsibility.


Lend Lease is committed to being responsible for what we take, create and leave behind. We are committed to being part of the Millers Point
community and are passionate about enhancing life for all who live and work here. Being a proactive neighbour is part of what we believe and
what we do. Our involvement in the Partnership provides our people with real opportunities for community involvement, and has been
a point of difference for us in terms of morale. We also enjoy deep relationships with our partners who work with us in the Partnerships
- many of which have extended into other opportunities to work together beyond Millers Point. Lend Lease is proud to be the
founding partner of the MPYEP.



Millers Point Resident Action Group

The Millers Point Resident Action Group is proud to be a part of the Partnership and very grateful for the opportunities it gives to our young people,
providing them with individual encouragement and mentoring which is having such great results; we are very proud of having our first university
student as a result of the program.


Sydney Secondary College - Balmain Campus

Balmain Campus is the local high school for students living at Millers Point. Balmain Campus is comprised of many small close – knit groups
from inner Sydney, and highly values the role the Millers Point Partnership Transition Program plays in supporting those students as they
move into high school. We look forward to working with the partnership to further support the students in their early years of high school.


The Rocks Chamber of Commerce & Sydney Cove Rotary

The Rocks Chamber of Commerce is proud to support any enterprise which is of real value to our diverse community. The partnership has
provided opportunities and mentoring to our kids in Millers Point with an overall net benefit through the kids to our community. Rocksfest is one
example of what the kids can achieve and the Chamber is proud to support the future endeavours of the Partnership.


TAFE NSW Sydney Institute, Ultimo College

The Outreach section at Ultimo College, Sydney Institute TAFENSW has been proudly associated with the Millers Point Youth & Employment
Partnership since 2004. The partnership is an award winning example of how social inclusion programs work in local communities,
especially in areas where young people experience social and economic marginalisation. Outreach at Ultimo College educational
pathways for young people into vocational learning and employment in local communities, such as Millers Point and across the City of Sydney.


Ultimo College Outreach has been closely involved in delivering training for the mentors, reading friends and various vocational skills
based education for the young people involved in the program. This is carried out in collaboration with the young people, mentors and the
relevant agencies in the partnership. The partnership has successfully created broad vocational education and employment opportunities for the
young people and their families. Outreach at Ultimo College looks forward continuing our involvement with the partnership and strengthening
education and employment opportunities for the Millers Point community.



Westpac

Westpac has a long and strong tradition of being actively involved in the communities where we live and work. We're proud to be a founding member
of the Partnership and to continue supporting the Miller's Point community through the ongoing involvement of our employees with innovative
programs like Reading Friends.



The Partnership Committee

The Partnership Committee is a group of people who represent our Partner organisations in the Millers Point area. Principally we have an operational focus. Through our annual Business Plan, we identify initiatives and programmes that will be our focus. Once these programmes have been identified and agreed upon, we turn our focus to implementation and monitoring. Various subcommittees look after implementation

The Board

The Millers Point Youth and Employment Partnership Board meets quarterly to sign off the Business Plan and approve expenditure as required. The board also provides the necessary compliance required by the various funding services.


Board of Directors

Simon Hardy Chair
Ann Austin  
Tui Horo  
Ray Newey  
Kenneth Ross Strang  







Secretary

Ken James  


Treasurer

Gerard Francis  


General Manager

Jessie Lenson  
Karen Mork (Jul 2010 - Jun 2011)