 She was Vice-President of the Citizens Welfare Service Victoria from 1970 to 1986 and Chairman of the Board of Management of Fintona Girls School from 1973 to 1987.From 1974–76, Beryl Beaurepaire served as Chairman of the Federal Women's Committee of the Liberal Party of Australia, vice-president of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party from 1976 to 1986, and convener of the first National Women's Advisory Council from 1978 to 1982.In 1999, when the CEDAW was supplemented by an Optional Protocol to create a mechanism allowing individual claims of violations to be made to the CEDAW Committee, and a procedure enabling the committee to initiate inquiries into situations of grave or systematic violations of women's rights, Dame Beryl publicly opposed the Government's decision not to sign or ratify the Protocol.