Deadline: 30-Jun-22
The Victoria Law Foundation is seeking applications for its Small Grants to improve community understanding of the justice system, including Victorian Law Week events.
Small Grants help community legal organisations and not-for-profit community groups deliver projects that support community needs and improve understanding of the justice system.
These grants are likely to fund:
- one-off projects addressing legal issues for a specific community or an area of law
- pilot projects offering new approaches to delivering legal information
Priorities
Priority will be given to applications that can demonstrate:
- Evidence: Evidence of legal need and a good case that this response is likely to make a difference.
- Impact: Projects that have potential to reach significant audiences – this could be a broad audience or a project that responds to a current issue or need for a specific group of Victorians.
Funding Information
Amount: Up to $5,000
Conditions
Victoria Law Foundation places conditions on the grants it makes. Some of the grant requirements include:
- successful applicants enter into an agreement with the Foundation
- a final report is to be submitted on completion of the project
- acknowledging the support of the Foundation
- having materials checked by a person with appropriate legal knowledge
- developing resources using plain language principles (where applicable).
Eligibility Criteria
Small Grant applications, including for Law Week events, are open to community legal organisations and not-for-profit community organisations. Non-legal organisations are encouraged to partner with a legal service to ensure accurate legal information is provided to the audience group. They only fund organisations – individuals are not able to apply.
Ineligible
Generally, they do not fund:
- professional development activities
- conferences – sponsorship or attendance
- government organisations with the exception of independent statutory bodies
- recurrent or core operational costs
- purchase of major items of equipment
- international travel costs
- commercial or profit-making activities
- litigation of any kind
- projects that primarily support political activity and lobbying
- costs incurred prior to grant approval
- grant applications previously deemed unsuccessful by the Foundation unless invited to reapply.
For more information, visit https://victorialawfoundation.org.au/grants/small-grants/