HAVING previously helped people and organisations in Muswellbrook and Scone, the Bengalla Community Apprentice Project is now shifting its attention to Denman.
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The program, which has been running since 2014, has in previous years constructed the Muswellbrook High School's outdoor learning space, Muswellbrook's Hunter Park backyard blitz and created an accessible playground area at Scone Public School for students with a disability.
Field maintenance superintendent and apprentice coordinator, Luke Holtz, said the scheme is mutually beneficial.
"There's a couple of purposes, one is to be involved in the community with programs for groups that can have a project on their premises or that will help build the future of our local area," he said.
"The other is to give them [apprentices] the exposure of managing a project.
"So planning, getting approval, budgeting and getting different exposure to general maintenance work."
Apprentices in their third year will be the ones given this opportunity, as they have been in other years.
After focusing on the larger towns in the region in the past, this time around it will be Denman to receive the aid, although exactly what the project will be is still under wraps.
Mr Holtz said they thought it was fitting to choose the home of the pig races, given they hadn't been part of the the program before.
"We get nominations off different people, we just ask around through the apprentices and see if they've got any preferences," he revealed.
"And this year one of them was from Denman, and they hadn't had a project completed there so far so we took that opportunity."
It will be delivered in late November 2019, with more details about exactly what will be built set to be revealed in coming weeks.
