Mr Hodge, who moved from Cairns to take up the role of director of Canobolas Rural Technology High School's Clontaff Foundation, said he's looking forward to mentoring about 150 boys with his team.

Clontaff, established to improve the education, life skills, self-esteem and employment prospects of indigenous boys, is now an Australia-wide organisation, with almost 8500 boys and 475 staff members.

Mr Hodge has been involved in the foundation at Woree (a suburb of Cairns) for four years and admits he had to google Orange when he was offered the job here.

"But it's an awesome opportunity and something I wanted to do. There's good numbers, good staff," he said.

Mr Hodge's goals include establishing a culture within the group and to build on the work of previous years.

Getting the older boys to mentor the younger kids, (there are about six tackling year 12 and about 20 starting year 11 while there could be up to 30 year 7 boys enrol this year), is also something he'd like to emphasise.

According to Mr Hodge sport is a big driver for the foundation - and he wants people to keep an eye out for an upcoming match between the Canobolas boys against Wellington in the coming weeks.