PilchConnect - Legal help for community groups

Welcome to PilchConnect.  PilchConnect is a specialist legal service set up by PILCH to provide free and low-cost legal assistance to not-for-profit community organisations and to advocate on their behalf.

PilchConnect aims to ‘help the helpers' through free or low-cost legal information, advice and training.  Our advocacy is focussed on improving the legal framework and reducing red tape for the not-for-profit sector.

Read more about PilchConnect here.

How can PilchConnect help your organisation?

*NEW* PilchConnect Rules Review Project

• Assistance for Victorian incorporated associations needing to update their rules to meet requirements of the new Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012.

Legal Information Webportal

• information, guides and checklists to help community organisations navigate the not-for-profit legal landscape.
• *NEW* resources for Victorian incorporated associations on new laws and transitional issues under the new Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012.

Legal training

• for not-for-profit community organisations, their lawyers and advisers.

Legal advice

• telephone advice and referral services for eligible not-for-profit community organisations.

Law reform and advocacy

• summaries of recent and proposed changes to the law and our submissions.

• *CURRENT ISSUES*: Human rights and anti-discrimination, incorporated associations reform, national charities regulator - ACNC.

What's new 

• latest news about the laws affecting the not-for-profit sector.

Quick Links

• quick links to our most popular pages on legal information, training and law reform.

How to contact PilchConnect

For legal enquiries please call us on  1800 706 220

For all other enquiries please:

• call us on  03 8636 4448 
• email us at  connect@pilch.org.au 
• write to us C/-PILCH PO BOX 16013 Collins West Melbourne 3000
• subscribe to our e-bulletin
• provide us with feedback

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