£50,000 Grants available for UK Registered Charities

Deadline: 24-Jun-22

The Shoosmiths Foundation is offering grants in the following categories to:

advance social mobility in the legal sector, and across the UK, in line with the Shoosmiths social mobility action plan. Particular focus on charitable organisations which share their belief that ‘talent can come from anywhere’, and which align their interventions with local socio-economic analysis and need;
advance a carbon net zero UK
advance access to justice in the UK.

The Shoosmiths Foundation is a grant-making body working to help address societal issues, to empower sustainable change and to improve the lives of the people and the environment in the UK.

The Foundation builds on Shoosmiths’ existing community investment programme which continues to support local charity partners through staff fundraising and firm donations, staff volunteering and provision of legal advice pro bono.

Funding Information

£25,000 to £50,000 grants are available for UK registered charities undertaking work in the UK.

Eligiblity Criteria

UK registered charities may apply.
Applications must:
- Relate to the social mobility aim of the Shoosmiths Foundation.
- Be linked to a Shoosmiths location and relate to areas with lower social mobility prospects.
- Projects that help people into local employment or
- Projects that aim to address specific underrepresentation, for example, that directly make a link between socio-economic background/social mobility prospects, and another factor such as
  - Characteristics listed in the Equality Act 2010
  - Ex-military personnel
  - People with convictions
  - People experiencing homelessness
  - Long-term unemployed
  - Refugees