Deadline: 12-Jun-25
The Three Guineas is accepting grant applications for its Access to justice for Disabled People.
Focus Areas
- This programme is for grants to projects supporting Disabled or neurodivergent people to exercise their rights on:
- Income, welfare benefits or debt
- Housing and homelessness
- Community care
- Personal liberty
- Equal access to goods and services
Funding Information
- They have earmarked a total of £1.5 million for this round of grants.
- The maximum annual grant will be £50,000 a year.
- Grants will be for up to 3 years’ funding.
Eligibility Criteria
- For this round, they will look at applications from not-for-profit organisations for work to provide legal advice, advocacy, or overcome barriers to access advice and advocacy services for Disabled or neurodivergent people as follows:
- Legal advice
- Legal advice accredited to one of the following:
- Lexel
- Legal Aid Agency Specialist Quality Mark
- Advice Quality Standard
- Money and Pensions Service Debt Advice Quality Framework
- Scottish Legal Aid Board for Type 2 (casework) or Type 3 (advocacy, representation and mediation at a tribunal or court action level) advice
- Northern Ireland Advice Quality Standard
- Advocacy
- Advocacy for individual people:
- accredited to the Advocacy Quality Performance Mark
- delivered using a recognised set of principles, standards and code of practice that includes training and supervision (for example the standard set out by the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance)
- delivered using equivalent in-house standards, including training and supervision
- Overcoming barriers to access
- Organisations that work to help Disabled or neurodivergent people to overcome barriers to access to goods and services or to exercise their rights must demonstrate that they provide services to the standards set out above, or work with organisations that do (for example a Deaf-led advice organisation that partners with a law centre).
- Legal advice
Ineligibility Criteria
- Organisations that currently have a grant from them (except a holiday scheme grant).
- Organisations with an income or expenditure over £1 million. In working out this total you may ignore Access to Work and other access costs, and funds held on behalf of partnerships or consortia.
- Organisations with unrestricted reserves worth more than a typical year’s expenditure.
- Organisations that offer residential care of any kind.
- Advice and advocacy that is not intentionally designed to help Disabled people. This funding is not targeted at general advice services that sometimes includes Disabled people among the people they help.
- App and website development.
- SEND advice and advocacy.
- Immigration advice and advocacy.
- Services provided by statutory services or as part of a partnership with one.
- Statutory advocacy.
- Work outside the UK.
For more information, visit Three Guineas.