Hammersmith & Fulham Community Law Centre was founded in 1979 by a steering group of local advice agencies, charities, council officers and community groups. It responded to a strong need for legal advice, specialist casework and legal representation. It is still responding and meeting the needs of local residents and community groups today. The management committee of the Law Centre is made up of persons nominated by the local authority, named partner advice agencies and community organisations, and persons (generally ex-users) elected at the annual general meeting to represent specified groups of clients such as black and ethnic minorities, claimants, tenants, employees. We have a successful management committee and considerable local interest in and support for the Law Centre.

The Law Centre works closely with its partner advice agencies that form the backbone of the Hammersmith & Fulham Advice Forum. Through these close-knit and well-established local networks the LawCentre provides second tier advice on the social welfare law issues in which we specialise: housing, community care, employment and asylum support, and also on immigration, asylum and nationality, to local advice and support services and community groups.