Deadline: 30-Jun-2025
Victoria Law Foundation is offering grants to address community legal need or improve understanding of the justice system.
Everyday Legal Grants offering grants to support civil legal projects helping community organisations develop legal information or legal education programs.
Everyday Legal Grants can civil legal fund civil legal information and education projects that:
- address a civil legal issue for a specific community
- develop new approaches to community legal education
- deliver legal information or help to navigate the Victorian justice system.
Funding Information
- Up to $10,000
Project Types
- Projects likely to be funded involve:
- one-off projects that address a legal issue fora specific community, such as development of a resource, tool or series of workshops.
- pilot projects that offer new approaches to delivering legal information
- trialling a strategy to gain further insights in the delivery of legal information in a new way that could be replicated in other programs or services.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible organisations
- Applications are open to:
- community legal centres
- community organisations with an internal legal service
- community organisations in partnership with a legal service.
- Applications are open to:
- They prioritise submissions from community legal organisations and other not-for-profit community organisations in partnership with a legal organisation.
- Non-legal organisations are required to partner with an organisation with suitable legal expertise to ensure accurate legal information is provided to the intended audience.
- They encourage partnerships between research organisations, courts, tribunals, statutory bodies and other community organisations to share knowledge, resources, provide guidance and expertise where there is shared interest.
- They only fund organisations – individuals are not able to apply.
- They focus on civil law and access to justice issues. They will consider work at the intersection of civil and criminal law, but they do not fund work exclusively on criminal law.
Criteria
- In addition to meeting the object of Victoria Law Foundation and the grant aims, applications are assessed on the following:
- Legal topic or access to justice issue
- Project delivery and how it meets the needs of the audience
- Outcomes for the intended audience
For more information, visit Victoria Law Foundation.