Women’s Legal draws on what we’ve learned from working with more than one hundred thousand women, and on our feminist understanding of how social issues and the law intersect. This helps us decide where we can make the biggest difference and where change is needed at a structural and systemic level.
We have built strong specialist expertise so we can push for these changes. We do this through law reform, advocating for better laws and policies, and through education and training for the legal profession, community services, and the wider community.
Women’s Legal Service NSW is a community legal centre. We are a for-purpose, independent, not-for-profit organisation. Our Board of nine women directors and our dedicated team are united in our commitment to women’s safety, rights and economic security.
We receive funding from the Commonwealth and NSW Governments, but we remain fully independent. Our work is shaped by our mission and by the voices and experiences of women across NSW.
Women’s Legal provides free legal help to women who are not safe or who may be at risk of harm. Our legal work is delivered through three specialist programs: the Working Women’s Centre NSW, the First Nations Women’s Legal Program, and the Women’s Rights Program.
Together, these programs provide free, trauma-informed, culturally safe, and client-centred legal services grounded in a gender justice framework.
Our legal practice is at the heart of everything we do. We walk alongside each client to strengthen their safety and economic security, and what we learn from women every day shapes our work for lasting systemic change through advocacy and community education.
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