Rural Financial Counselling Service

The RFCS Program was established in 1986 in response to drought, depressed commodity prices and increasing interest rates, and has continued because of ongoing need. The program is funded by the Australian and state governments, who have committed funding to 30 June 2011.

The RFCS Program provides grants to state and regional organisations to provide free and impartial rural financial counselling to primary producers, fishers and small rural businesses who are suffering financial hardship and who have no alternative sources of impartial support. GMH Agcare operates the Rural Financial Counselling Service in the Goulburn Murray Hume region on behalf of the Federal Office of Rural Financial Counselling.

Visit the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) website to find out more about the Rural Financial Counselling Service.