The Community Justice Fund is a joint initiative to help specialist social welfare legal advice organisations cope with the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and lay the foundations for longer-term renewal.
The funding is intended to help towards the costs of maintaining and adapting services for organisations that regularly provide legal advice at specialist level including carrying out end-to-end casework for clients, carrying out representation in a court or tribunal and/or holding legal aid contracts.
Applicants must be registered charities that have a track record of delivering legal advice in one or more of the following areas of law: asylum, community care, debt, disability, discrimination, education, employment, housing, immigration, mental health, public and administrative law and welfare benefits.
Grants will be in the range of £25,000 to £75,000.
Focus of fund/fund aims:
Grants up to £75,000 to help specialist social welfare legal advice organisations to be effective and sustainable in the face of responding to COVID-19
Application deadline:
Applications may be submitted at any time and will be considered each week