How Brewlab is governed.

Legal structure

Brewlab Holdings Inc is an Incorporated Association registered in Victoria. As an ACNC-registered charity, we comply with the ACNC's six Governance Standards and the External Conduct Standards where applicable. Our purposes are set out in our Rules and our charity sub-type on the ACNC register is the advancement of education.

Governing committee

The charity is governed by a volunteer committee elected from its membership in accordance with the Rules of the Association. Committee members serve without remuneration. The current committee is set out below.

All committee members are listed publicly as Responsible People on Brewlab's ACNC Charity Register record.

Key policies

Child Safety & Working with Young People

Because all our beneficiaries are young people (15 to under 25), child safety is core to our governance. Our policy includes adult-to-young-person ratios, Working with Children Check requirements for adult volunteers in roles working closely with under-18s, mandatory reporting of safeguarding concerns, and confidential complaint pathways.

Alcohol-Responsible Education

While our charitable work includes brewing as a STEM and engineering discipline, Brewlab does not sell, market or promote alcohol to the public. Participants under the age of 18 work only with non-alcoholic ferments. Adult participants engage with brewing strictly within an educational and research context, supervised by adult volunteers within Monash University's safety framework.

Workplace Health & Safety

All practical activities take place within or under the safety governance of Monash University facilities, including risk assessments, personal protective equipment requirements, hazardous substance handling rules and emergency procedures.

Privacy & Data

We collect personal information only as required to deliver our programs (e.g. membership records, supervision and safeguarding records). Our handling of personal information is set out in our Privacy Policy.

Conflicts of Interest

Committee members are required to declare any actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest and to abstain from voting on matters in which they have a material interest, in accordance with the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012 (Vic) and ACNC Governance Standard 5.

Diversity & Inclusion

Brewlab welcomes participants regardless of cultural background, gender, sexuality, ability or socio-economic circumstance. Our committee is committed to making our programs as accessible and welcoming as possible.

Reporting & transparency

We submit an Annual Information Statement to the ACNC each year. The ACNC profile includes our reporting status, charity sub-type, registered address and Responsible Persons. We encourage anyone interested in our work to review our public ACNC record:

View Brewlab Holdings Inc on the ACNC Charity Register →

Concerns & complaints

Anyone — including participants, parents, volunteers, partners and members of the public — can raise a concern or complaint about Brewlab's conduct. Concerns can be raised confidentially by email to the Secretary at secretary@brewlab.org.au. Complaints that cannot be resolved internally can be escalated to the ACNC.

Last reviewed: January 2025. This page is provided as a public summary; the binding documents are the Association's Rules and policies as adopted by the committee.