Annual Report 2005—2006 - Inner City Legal Centre

Coordinator’s ReportOur year at the Centre was somewhat over-shadowed by the death of ourbeloved Board Member David Toolan. David was an active participant inthe GLBT community and his passion and commitment to the developmentof quality community legal education resources and services will be sadlymissed.ICLC staff and volunteers did however, successfully participate in a numberof community legal education and law reform projects as well as advise andassist over 3 000 clients over the past year.In particular we were pleased to receive an additional $100 000 to look atemployment issues for NSW women following the closure of the WorkingWomen's Centre. The funding from the NSW Office for Women is for a oneoff state-wide project, the Women’s Employment Rights Project (WERP).ICLC is most appreciative of and continues to benefit from the support of anumber of organisations including government, community groups andprivate legal firms. In particular ICLC acknowledges its major source offunding from the Federal and NSW State Governments through thecombined community legal services program. ICLC also thanks the City ofSydney for its continued support through the provision of subsidised officeaccommodation.ICLC was also pleased to join in a partnership with O’Hare Funeral Homesto develop a community legal education resource titled Love, Loss and theLaw. This resource is outlined in the CLE Report.ICLC once again was an active participant with Redfern, Marrickville andKingsford Legal Centres in the Inner Sydney Legal Centres Group. Over theyear the group has organised numerous joint training sessions for volunteersolicitors and shared resources at fairs and other community events.This year saw a reasonably big turnover of staff and volunteers. Inparticular, Susie Grey a long term volunteer, part time Administrator andVolunteer Coordinator resigned from the Centre. Susie contributed greatlyto the work and life of the Centre over the past five years and will be greatlymissed by all. We wish Susie all the best in her new role as a Caseworker/Solicitor at Welfare Rights Legal Centre.Jo Shulman resigned in July 2005 to take up work with the Public InterestAdvocacy Centre (PIAC). Jo had only been at the Centre for twelve monthsbut during that time had successfully completed a number of law reformInner City Legal Centre Annual Report 2005—20069