Helping community groups achieve outcomes and build stronger communities underpins Harwood Andrews Lawyers’ extensive pro bono program.
For decades, Harwood Andrews Lawyers has aided community organisations through the provision of in-kind legal services and is dedicated to maintaining this commitment.
It has not only been charitable organisations who have been at the heart of Harwood Andrews Lawyers’ pro bono program. Other community-focused groups in areas such as the arts, sport and education have been an integral plank in the firm’s pro bono platform.
Harwood Andrews Lawyers believes that the community can share in the benefits of the firm’s specialised knowledge of the law, profound experience and long-standing partnerships.
This commitment is realised by the allocation of a significant internal budget that allows Harwood Andrews Lawyers to deliver legal services at no charge to chosen not-for-profit organisations.
Organisations supported by Harwood Andrews Lawyers’ pro bono program include:
- Back to Back Theatre (theatre company with actors considered to have an intellectual disability)
- Barwon Community Legal Service (evening legal service clinic)
- Barwon Youth Accommodation Service (supported living for disadvantaged young people)
- Bethany (community support)
- Courthouse Youth Arts Centre (youth arts and culture)
- Crime Stoppers (crime prevention program)
- E W Tipping Foundation (residential and respite care for the disabled and ageing)
- G-Force (training and employment)
- Geelong Advertiser Music Scholarships (musical education)
- Geelong Business Club (business networking and support organisation)
- Geelong Community Foundation (philanthropic foundation)
- Geelong Cross Country Club (sporting association)
- Geelong Law Association (pro bono family violence duty)
- Give Where You Live
- Glastonbury Child & Family Services (child and family support services)
- Great Ocean Road Coastal Committee (management of foreshore reserves along the Great Ocean Road)
- Karingal (disability or disadvantaged services)
- Marcus Oldham College (rural business management college)
- Muffin Foundation (funds donated to charities)
- Oberon High School (co-educational state high school)
- Pathways Australia (not-for-profit organisation management support services)
- Port Musos (Port Arlington Music Group)
- Rural Law Online (legal guide for rural Victorians)
- Shannon Park Trust Inc
- Scope (disability services)
- St Laurence (human services agency)
- Sweethearts Foundation
- Time for Youth (youth housing support)
- Vanish (advice, search and support services)
- Volunteering Geelong
- Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative