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Every $1 you donate will become $2 with matched funding available for the first $10,000 we fundraise ($20,000 total)
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Raised so far
$16,632
Our goal
$20,000
About Us
The Women's Legal Centre is a specialist legal service for women in the ACT.
We provide free legal assistance in relation to domestic and family violence, separation and family breakdown, care and protection, problems at work, discrimination, and migration. The Centre also includes a specialist program for First Nations women, Mulleun Mura.
The Centre provides legal services within a multi-disciplinary and trauma-informed practice model and works in partnership with health and community services in Canberra to ensure the most vulnerable women are able to access specialist legal assistance.
We are a feminist service with a strong values base.
This means we understand the legal issues facing women and their experience of the legal system within a broader analysis of systemic gender inequality. We are committed to providing individual services whilst also working towards deeper legal and cultural change to redress power imbalances and address violence and gender inequality.
How your donation will help
Legal disbursements are costs for services required in connection with a legal matter. This could include fees to prepare reports, valuations, court filing and hearing fees and fees for the service of court documents such as subpoenas. It also includes barristers’ fees to represent women whose matters proceed to court.
The Centre provides services to women who are financially disadvantaged and cannot afford private representation. The additional costs of running a complex matter are also out of their reach and the Centre's funding is not enough to cover these costs.
*$50 pays for costs to copy original subpoenaed material.
*$150 pays for a superannuation valuation to support the division of super following separation.
*$310 pays for one women's divorce filing fee.
*$500 pays for an immigration medical report required for women assisted through our migration practice.
*$1,850 pays for a barrister to represent our client in a half-day hearing (reduced rate for the Centre).
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A big thank you to our Supporters
$25
Laura Wood
$20.80
Jeanette D'souza
Well done. A very worthy cause.
$104
Carole Maclean
$104
Anonymous
$52
Oliver Pulsford
Happy Birthday Holly! Love your work!
$1,000
Team Work Makes The Dream Work Prize
$515
Rosa Saladino
keep up the good work
$104
Anonymous
$52
Hamish Bassett
$104
Paloma And Franny Bradley
$52
Anonymous
$104
Anonymous
$36
David Hermolin
$104
Veronica Wensing
Keep up the great work
$156
Holly Matley
$100
Linda Rosenman
$500
Anonymous
$50
Patrick Esler
$104
Emma & Tim Lattimore
Thank you for everything you do to provide an essential service for Canberra’s women. 🙏
$515
Yvonne Korn
Womens Legal Centre does incredibly important work which needs to be supported by all.
$208
Anonymous
Thanks for all your work!
$26
Anna Roberts
$20
Anonymous
$26
Ellen Mcphee
$52
Antony Catt
$104
Trish Bergin
$104
Stephen Still
$26
Agnes Kopras-ianson
$161.20
Nichola Perry
$104
Alice Mcneill
<3 For all the wonderful work everyone here does!!
$415
Anonymous
$52
Stephanie Mcneill
$104
Dara Fraser
$104
Alana Fraser
$50
Anonymous
$104
Nerida Gill
Keep up the great work!
$260
Mary-anne Mildren
$26
Graham Chalker
$52
Alison Killen
$104
Carissa
$2
Shawn Elworthy
$52
Rebekah Hamed
Thanks for doing real stuff that helps women! (Happy IWD!)
$2
Anonymous
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Anonymous
$52
Rebecca Hobbs
$260
Linda Crebbin
Thank you Parker Coles Curtis
$20.80
Todd Diamond
Hope this can be used to rectify the disparity in power especially when coercive control issues occur in family break ups
$260
Libera Serci
$104
Monica Serci
