The special meeting will be at Southside Leagues Club from 6pm and will be all about the pilot ‘Growing our Own in the Griffith region’ program.

Deakin University and the Bendigo Bank had formed a partnership to promote and support improved access to education in the area in the belief that education underpinned growth and prosperity.

The partnership sought to improve the level of education participation and skills retention in regional communities.

There are presently two pilots underway, one in the Griffith region, and one in the Charlton region, with 15 separate organisations working together to build the vision and plan.

The program promised to provide opportunities to achieve alignment between the workforce skill needs of the region, the access to the education required to achieve these skills and opportunities for business and industry to be engaged with developing their future workforce.

People were encouraged to attend to hear more about the project from Deakin university representatives.