PILCH Homeless Persons' Legal Clinic
Hanover Welfare Services
Urban Seed
Melbourne Citymission

present

We Want Change: Understanding and Responding to Begging in Melbourne

with

Heather Lyon, Chief Executive Officer, Hanover Welfare Services

Michael Horn, Manager, Research and Social Policy Unit, Melbourne Citymission

Mark Pierson, Executive Director, Urban Seed

Phil Lynch, Coordinator, PILCH Homeless Persons' Legal Clinic

The PILCH Homeless Persons' Legal Clinic has recently conducted significant research regarding the nature, extent and causes of begging in Melbourne.

This Report launch and discussion will consider the problem of begging in Melbourne's CBD. Informed by the nature, extent and causes of begging and the interests, values and views of people who beg, it will also discuss a range of public and social policy initiatives designed to respond to begging.

Time: 11.00am - 12.30pm

Date: Friday, 24 June 2024

Venue: Credo Café, Enter off Little Collins Street via Baptist Place, Melbourne

Morning tea will be provided

RSVP Damien Pitts
PILCH
P: (03) 9225 6680
E: pilch@vicbar.com.au