Our Club Our Community

The Dapto Leagues Club Max Potential Program was piloted in May this year for the first time in the Wollongong area.

Through the Program, young people are provided with 22 weeks of personal leadership development, including working with a trained community or business leader, to help them maximise their potential during their final years at school and beyond. It also encourages young people to focus on the local community, and ways that they can work to improve it.

Max Potential aims to grow and realise the leadership potential of the local community. Young leaders are teamed up with a community or business coach, and as a partnership they work toward achieving both personal and community change.

Community coaches are provided with training in a coaching model which explores ten personal leadership principles, and they are provided the opportunity to pass this learning on to local young people.

The Board and Management of Dapto Leagues believe in supporting Our Club Our Community. The Max Potential 2011 Program was the unique conduit in assisting us to do this by way of equipping our community and business coaches with the tools that they can pass onto our local young adult leaders, whom will maximise their potential and make a difference both personally and on a community scale.

October was the month that our 12 inspiring young leaders representing Dapto High, Kanahooka High, St Mary’s Star of the Sea College and Illawarra Grammar School, each undertook their projects to improve their local communities in some unique and personal way. The community has seen events aimed at bringing young people and the wider community together, in-school projects to provide academic and emotional support to other students, animal welfare and rights initiatives, environmental projects, and heart-warming workshops to engage and support our oldest and most vulnerable residents.

On October 27, the students Showcased there community projects in the Sinclair Room at Dapto Leagues, where we heard their stories, celebrated their achievements, and shared their journeys, in front of a large audience including the Lord Mayor Cnr Gordon Bradbery, Noreen Hay MP, Anna Watson MP and a number of other local business, community and school representatives 

A big thank you to our Business and Community Coaches for 2011:-  from Wollongong City Council, Southern Cross Security, Careways, Ainsworth Game Technology and Soroptimist International.

We are proud to pilot and fund such a unique program and believe it is the backbone to developing a strong community partnership beginning with today’s youth who will be leading us in the future. 

David Hiscox
CEO Dapto Leagues.