Everyday Legal Grant

Improving community legal information and education

Everyday Legal Grants offer up to $10,000 to support civil legal projects helping community organisations develop legal information or legal education programs.

Everyday Legal Grants can 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.

Eligible organisations

Applications are open to:

• community legal centres
• community organisations with an internal legal service
• community organisations in partnership with a legal service.

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.

Grant criteria

In addition to meeting the object of Victoria Law Foundation and our 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

Application Timeline

Everyday Legal Grants open 1 July 2024 until funding has been fully allocated.

Eligibility

We 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.

We 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.

We only fund organisations – individuals are not able to apply.

We focus on civil law and access to justice issues. We will consider work at the intersection of civil and criminal law, but we do not fund work exclusively on criminal law.

Preparing your application

If you are interested in applying for a grant, we offer a range of guidance supports and resources to help.

• Discuss your proposal with the Grants Manager.
• Ensure your proposal meets the grant criteria.
• Read the information about developing your proposal.
• Use our Smarty Grants form to submit an application.

Contact our Grants Manager

We recommend that you contact the Grants Manager before to submitting your application.

Discussing your project is the best way to ensure your application meets the grants criteria and to confirm there are sufficient funds available.

More information

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