When things change

Inevitably, things will change for your community organisation.

It may be that your small, locally focussed community organisation finds that before long it has an opportunity to operate interstate. This may require a change in legal structure. Your organisation's fundraising and other activities may grow to a point where it decides to apply for Deductible Gift Recipient taxation status, and needs to amend its constitution to reflect its current activities. Or your organisation may have found that there is no longer a need for it to continue to exist, or that it could better fulfil its objects if it joined forces with another not-for-profit organisation.

This section of the PilchConnect website looks at just some of the legal issues that Victorian  community organisations should think about when things change (or preferable before things change!). The topics include legal issues to consider when:

• changing your organisation's constitution or rules;
• working with other organisations (including auspicing agreements, joint ventures agreements, and memoranda of understanding);
• changing your organisation's legal structure; 
• amalgamating with another organisation (or many); and
• winding up an organisation (either voluntarily, via de-registration or the courts).