Updates from the committee, program highlights and key milestones for our young members. New entries are added periodically.
Our committee has welcomed a new intake of student volunteers from across Monash University. The 2025 cohort spans engineering, science, design and business, and will work alongside our experienced volunteers across all five education programs.
Following our standard governance review, the committee has adopted an updated Child Safety and Working with Young People policy. The updated policy reaffirms that participants under 18 work only with non-alcoholic fermentation projects and outlines clearer reporting pathways for any safeguarding concern.
Across the year, our volunteer team completed a full-cycle training pathway covering fermentation science, equipment operation, sensory analysis and quality control. Each volunteer is now able to safely lead supervised practical sessions for new participants.
Several professionals from Australia's craft beverage, food technology and engineering sectors have agreed to act as volunteer mentors to our student members. Mentoring sessions are run in line with our adult-to-young-person ratios and supervision policies.
Brewlab Holdings Inc has lodged its Annual Information Statement with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission for the financial year ending 30 June. The full record is publicly available on our ACNC profile.
On 24 October 2023, Brewlab Holdings Incorporated was officially registered as an incorporated association in Victoria and subsequently endorsed as a charity by the ACNC, with the purpose of advancing the education of young Australians aged 15 to under 25.