Communities Against Alcohol Harm Incorporated

Your donation will help communities fight the tide of alcohol outlets. We do this by partnering with agencies, volunteer groups, and specialist legal advice, to assess, object, and represent communities in the licensing process.

The Alcohol licensing process has become increasingly legalistic and bureaucratic, and the Alcohol industry invests in specialist advice and legal representation to ensure outcomes that suit its agenda. What this means is that communities who wish to exercise their right to oppose new alcohol outlets, or get restrictions placed on hours, or even just have a say in the process, are often under-resourced, or lack the specialist knowledge to object to new licenses effectively.

Communities Against Alcohol Harm partners with communities, local boards, health authorities and others to provide the specialised advice necessary to successfully oppose new licenses, or amend license conditions. We do this by working with specialists in the area of alcohol licensing.

Currently Communities Against Alcohol Harm can only work in limited locations, as our resources are stretched. We want to help more communities who want to have a say in the amenities of their communities', but we can only stretch our limited resources, and our time, so far.

But we need help; we need tools for our volunteers, we need to cover the costs associated with running a small organisation, and most of all, we need help paying for specialist legal assistance.