Migrants and refugees from western Sydney could resettle in Greater Hume Shire as part of the $3 million NSW Growing Regions of Welcome pilot program.

Greater Hume Council is one of three council areas taking part in the Murray pilot, together with Federation and Albury.

Co-chair of the NSW GROW Murray Taskforce Andrew Kotzur attended the community information session held at Henty to present the GROW program and show how residents could support it.

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"We did have a good cross-section of the community," he said.

"There was community members, the Murray part of the project is with Red Cross so Red Cross was well represented, the church groups were well-represented and then there was business people there.

"We covered some of the background to the project, because there was a fair bit of research into developing a local program, we talked about NARS, Newcomer and Retention Strategy, and then we had a Q and A session and that was really good, we were really pleased with the questions people were asking and it all went pretty well."

Mr Kotzur said people were curious to know what would attract migrants and refugees to their small communities, how the community and individuals could support migrants and refugees and what would their language capabilities and skill levels be.

"What I would say is there was a really good feeling of people who are supportive of the program," he said.

"And I guess you don't know until the time comes, but I would have thought boots on the ground type help with support would have seemed to be pretty forthcoming."

A second Greater Hume information session will be held at the Holbrook Library on Tuesday, August 23, from 7pm to 8.30pm.

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