Hume Riverina Community Legal Service (HRCLS) is a service of Upper Murray Family Care (UMFC).
HRCLS is a generalist, place-based, cross-border, community legal centre improving access to justice in the regional communities of 17 local government areas across North East Victoria and the Southern Riverina of New South Wales.
Established on 28 July 1999 as the Albury Wodonga Community Legal Service and officially opened by the Federal Attorney-General, the Hon. Daryl Williams, our service has continued to adapt, grow and respond to community needs. From a team of just four, we’ve expanded to nearly 30 staff in 2025. We were renamed Hume Riverina Community Legal Service in 2009 to better reflect our regional reach and identity.
For over 25 years HRCLS has been advancing fairness in the legal system through the strategic provision of trauma-informed, person-centred legal assistance services, community legal education, and advocacy and law reform to address systemic barriers to justice.
HRCLS provides legal assistance in civil and family law to those who are most in need: people experiencing barriers to accessing justice often compounded by intersecting legal and non-legal problems.
Vision
A society where all people enjoy equality of opportunity and have equal access to the law.
Purpose
- Improve justice access and outcomes
- Holistically address people’s legal and non-legal needs
- Increase people’s sense of autonomy and agency
- Makes laws and systems fairer
Values
As a service of UMFC we share and uphold the values of:
- Unwavering integrity
- Passionately optimistic
- Considered empathy
- Bravely collaborative
- Determined advocacy
For more information on what a community legal centre is, please visit, What is a CLC? – Federation of Community Legal Centres.
