Ethnic Communities Council of Newcastle & Hunter Region Inc.

The Ethnic Communities Council of Newcastle & Hunter Region Inc. have been servicing the local area for almost 40 years. The organisation was initially established in 1977 as the umbrella body for ethnic communities in the Newcastle and Hunter Region and is now also a major provider of health, wellbeing and social programs to a broad cross-section of the Hunter Region Community. They have more than 70 community group members, the majority of which are representative of the established and emerging culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in this region. They are a non-profit benevolent organisation providing health, wellbeing, social services and cultural activities to the multicultural, CALD and broader Hunter Region communities.

Projects include:

• Health and Wellness Centres
• Multicultural Friendship Groups
• Social Support
• Men's Shed
• Diversity Community Garden
• Conversational English Class
• Multicultural Speakers Project

View their Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/ECC-Newcastle-Hunter-422315107797202/