Membership Plans

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How to join HMC

To apply for HMC membership please download the membership form and send to [email protected] or drop it into our centre at 2A Platt Street, Waratah NSW 2298. Our centre is open from 8am - 4pm on weekdays.

If you are opting to join as a voting member, please note that HMC's Board meets every second month and that forms will be reviewed at the next HMC Board meeting. Payment for voting members is not required until after the board approve a voting membership application.

Download APPLICATION FOR HMC MEMBERSHIP FORM

Associate Group – $25

  • 15–250 members

  • Includes 1 voting delegate

Associate Group – $50

  • 250–750 members

  • Includes 2 voting delegates

Individual – $25

  • Full voting rights

Friends of HMC – $10

  • No voting rights

APPLICATION FOR HMC MEMBERSHIP FORM

Membership Benefits

Becoming a member of Hunter Multicultural Communities (HMC) gives you access to a range of valuable benefits, including discounted venue hire, invitations to special events, and regular member updates via email. Voting members are also welcome to attend our Annual General Meeting and have the opportunity to vote on important matters that help shape the future of HMC.

Hunter Multicultural Communities Inc (HMC) is a non-profit public benevolent organisation serving established, new, emerging and established multicultural communities in the Hunter Region.

Our Vision...

to be the leading multicultural organisation in the Newcastle and Hunter Region providing health, wellness and cultural programs and support to promote a healthy, united, just and equitable multicultural society.

Our Mission...

to be the leading multicultural organisation in the Newcastle and Hunter Region providing health, wellness and cultural programs and support to promote a healthy, united, just and equitable multicultural society.

Our Core Values...

to be the leading multicultural organisation in the Newcastle and Hunter Region providing health, wellness and cultural programs and support to promote a healthy, united, just and equitable multicultural society.

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  • The HMC has grown to become a major provider of health, wellbeing, social and support programs to our Region’s diverse established and emerging CALD communities, older persons,
    disenfranchised youth, special needs groups and the wider public.
  • With more than 70 community group members, a majority of which are representative of the established and emerging culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in this region.
  • Funded by state and federal governments, the HMC continues its historical advocacy services to skilled migrants and humanitarian refugees making Newcastle their new home.
  • Initially, from 1977 we established support services for our ageing post WWII European migrants who came to work in the steelmaking and manufacturing sectors who arrived from 1946 until 1973 predominantly as political and economic refugees from countries such as Poland, Italy, Greece, Macedonia, Austria, Hungary, Germany and Russia.
  • In the following decades people arriving in Newcastle were increasingly from India, China, Philippines and Malaysia. African humanitarian refugees arriving mainly between 2004-2009
    were from a range of countries including Sudan, Congo, and Liberia. The current focus for humanitarian settlement in Newcastle is people seeking new horizons from countries such as
    Syria, Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • The HMC also works in conjunction with other Newcastle based community organisations providing specialised support for our diverse communities including a range of settlement, trauma counselling and rehabilitation, education, language, housing, health and wellbeing, welfare and safety services.