Jack Manning Bancroft

Oration topic: Tomorrow's Children

At 24 years old Jack Manning Bancroft is the CEO of the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), NSW Young Person of The Year 2010 and has been named in Sydney’s Top 100 Most Influential People. In 2005, as a 19 year old university student, Jack founded the AIME program and began it with 20 Indigenous kids in Redfern. AIME incorporated in 2008 and Jack became a CEO at age 22. In 2010 AIME will be launching the program nationally with expansion into Victoria and Queensland. Heading up a team of 20 full time staff, Jack and the team will be looking at engaging close to 1000 University students as volunteers to support 1000 Indigenous high school students through school across the East Coast of Australia in 2010.

Jack's vision is to see the program get out to between 5,000-10,000 students per annum over the next five years. He's also starting to look at the potential of the program working internationally as well. AIME has proven already its ability to achieve their goals of increasing Year 10, 12 completion rates, and university admission rates for all Indigenous students in the program.

Find out more about the work AIME does. 

Listen to Jack's oration (.mp3 / 32mb).  Also available on UQ Centenary on iTunesU.

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