Donna Letchford

Donna Letchford is a financial counsellor at Women’s Legal Service Victoria, working with women who are dealing with family violence and predominantly economic abuse. She became a financial counsellor in 2001 after a career in the banking industry of over two decades. 

In her work at Women's Legal Service Victoria, she has been able to obtain significant outcomes in reducing/waiving family violence client's debt, and play a significant role in assisting women in rebuilding their lives after violence.In 2016, she was awarded the Financial and Consumer Rights Council’s Virginia Noonan Award for this work.

Donna was convener of Financial and Consumer Rights Council Banking Issues Working Group for ten years, is a current member of the Economic Abuse Reference Group and a financial counselling supervisor.