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About CLCs

About CLCs

Community Legal Centres, or CLCs, are independent community organisations that provide free legal services to those who need it. CLCs enable a strong collective voice for justice and equality. Find out more.

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Community Legal Centres across Victoria provide free legal advice to people experiencing disadvantage. Find a Community Legal Centre.

Policy Submissions and Reports

Policy Submissions and Reports

On this page, you can find recent and past submissions, reports and statements from the Federation of Community Legal Centres. Learn more.

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Resources

Learn more about our Integrated Practice Toolkit and other resources.

About Us

The Federation leads and supports excellence in the community legal sector, promotes the purpose and value of Community Legal Centres, and advances social justice and a fair legal system.

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No budget cuts to community legal sector, but without additional funding huge legal need will remain unmet

Victorian Community Legal Centres are disappointed that yesterday's budget announcement did not include a much-needed injection of additional funding to the Victorian community legal sector.  

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Community Legal Centres struggling to provide critical family violence support as funding trails demand

The community legal sector plays a critical role in keeping women and children safe from family violence, forming a key part of the network of services involved in family violence support. Yet a lack of funding for the family violence services that Community Legal Centres provide means that centres are forced to turn away thousands of victim survivors of family violence in need of their assistance. 

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Fundraising workshop is a step towards building the sector’s financial sustainability for the future

On Wednesday 1 May, the Federation hosted a Community Legal Centre Fundraising Workshop with Amplify Fundraising. The all-day, in-person event focused on the unique fundraising opportunities for Community Legal Centres and was a great forum for the Victorian sector to connect, build skills, and strengthen relationships.

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There are Community Legal Centres across Victoria. Click to find your nearest Victorian Community Legal Centre.

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Federation of Community
Legal Centres (Vic) Inc.
Level 3, 225 Bourke Street,
Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia.

Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic) Inc.
Level 3, 225 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia.

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we operate, the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung and Bunurong Peoples of the Kulin Nation. We extend this acknowledgement to all First Nations’ Peoples and pay our respects to their Elders past and present and acknowledge sovereignty was never ceded. 

Phone: (03) 9652 1501

Email: [email protected]

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