AMYAC Community Trust

About the Trust

The AM-YAC Indigenous Community Trust is in place to assist AM-YAC Members. Below is an overview of our purpose and policies. Please note all Community Grant Programs have annual funding caps and funding is not always available.

Charitable Objects and Purposes

  • The relief of poverty, sickness, suffering, destitution, misfortune and helplessness in the Community;
  • To provide grants, scholarships, bursaries and other assistance
  • (financial or otherwise) for the education, including vocational training and economic and enterprise training of the members of the Community;
  • To promote health in the Community;
  • To provide for the needs of the elderly and infirm members of the Community;
  • To provide cultural and heritage benefits to the Community;
  • To provide grants and other assistance for the protection and preservation of the natural environment;
  • To provide transport and communication services to the Community;
  • To provide for the long term needs of future generations of members of the Community;
  • To promote, protect and maintain the traditional laws and culture of the Community;
  • To provide assistance to the Community for housing programs;
  • To provide funding for or to implement Community projects, Community facilities and Community activities for the furtherance of these charitable objects and purposes.

Eligibility to Receive Trust Assistance

In order to receive a distribution under these policies:

  • You must be on the register of beneficiaries (as provided by AM-YAC);
  • You must complete an application form and provide all of the required supporting documents for your application to be considered; You must sign or otherwise authorise the application (the Executive Office can help with this); and
  • Your application must be provided to the Executive Office by post, email, fax, by hand or electronic application.
  • Moving to electronic ap forms. Some pdf’s may still circulate in community and be submitted by email.

Please note in reference to these guidelines:

  • If your application doesn’t comply with these guidelines for any reason, it must be forwarded to the Advisory Council to be approved which will most likely take some time; and
  • Assistance will be provided through payments made directly to stores or through purchase orders. No cash will be provided to (with the exception of Historical Hardship and Elder Payments).
  • Your place of residence will be deemed to be the address recorded on the member register or listed on your current drivers licence.

All payments on behalf of a recognised member of the Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal Corporation (AM-YAC) will be based on the following:

  1. You must firstly qualify for and be accepted as a member of AMY AC, and then either:
  2. a. Be born or be descended from an Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara (AMY) person born on the AMY area – “true blood line”; or
  3. b. Have personally lived a long time on the AMY area, ie. 20 years
  4. If you satisfy both a. & b. in 1. above you will have greater entitlement and hence greater priority than if you only satisfied a. or b.
  5. If you are also old and/or sick you will be given further prioritisation in terms of benefits from the Trust.
  6. If you are a member who does not have a “true blood line” or has not lived on the AMY area for a long time you are not entitled to receive any benefits from the Trust.

For the purposes of this Schedule, ‘Immediate Family’ is defined as an individual’s parents, grandparents, spouse, siblings, children and grandchildren. The relationship must be a blood relationship or one as defined by Australian law.

AM-YAC Service Standards

Please refer to the AM-YAC Service Standards below for all application processes.

Applications

  • Acknowledgement of receipt of online applications – Same day
  • Acknowledgement of receipt of email applications – next business day
  • Approval and delivery where application is consistent with Policy and Trust budget – 3 days or less.
  • Response where application does not conform to Policy – 3 days following the Trust Advisory Council meeting.

Telephone Service – 9:30am to 2:30pm – Monday to Friday excluding public holidays and Christmas closure period.

Voicemail – Checked at 11am on weekends, public holidays and Christmas Closure Period.

Emergency Circumstances – For the critical health and safety of AM-YAC members – Notify the trustee within 24 hrs.

Executive Office

Fiduciary Administration Services or (FAS) has over 20 years’ of experience in the management of native title trusts.

Through compliant administration and the development of innovative technology, we’re improving our services and leading the industry to deliver a more efficient native title trust distribution service for future generations.

We look forward to working with AM-YAC members and delivering the executive office service. We have a team of 9 staff at present and we will provide introductions over the coming months.

FAS will deliver assistance to AM-YAC members through a specifically designed software for native title charitable trusts, called Custodian Community. 

More information about FAS is available via our web page: fasperth.com.au