Illawarra Legal Centre’s 30th Birthday Celebration

30 Year Celebration

The Illawarra Legal Centre held it’s 30th Birthday Celebration at the Wollongong Art Gallery on 18th March 2016, at which we celebrated the dedication of our wonderful volunteers over the last 30 years.

Illawarra Legal Centre opened its doors in 1985 as a direct result of community action and support; allowing us to provide free legal advice to the local community, and in particular, to those who had little hope of accessing affordable legal help.

Over the years our volunteer’s personal commitment to our service has been incredibly generous and we were happy to be able to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions and efforts of our 540+ volunteers that have given us their time.

This year we also celebrated some significant volunteer service milestones.

• 5 of our volunteers notched up more than 30 years of service with ILC,
• 8 volunteers who have served over 20 years,
• 19 volunteers having devoted more than 10 years to the Illawarra Legal Centre (some of these are close to 20!)

We were very lucky to have more than 100 of these volunteers join us at our Celebration.

There was much reminiscing and reconnecting (along with good food, entertainment and all at a beautiful location). Some of the volunteers that attended appeared on our inaugural advice roster in 1985!

In fact one of these special volunteers was also on the original working party in 1983, which fought hard to have a free legal service available in the Illawarra and still volunteers today.

As the demand for our services gets greater and greater each year, it is only with the assistance of our volunteers that we have been able to rise to meet the challenge.

Thank you, to all our volunteers past and present.

We couldn’t have done it without you!