Better understand and respond to legal need
We offer grants for new community legal initiatives to support better justice.
Funding for legal initiatives and projects
Better justice requires organisations to understand and respond appropriately to community legal need.
Through our grants program we provide funding and support to new community legal initiatives, leading to better justice.
Our grant focus areas
Research and data
Projects that develop a new understanding through collection and use of data or assist to improve data capability.
Legal interventions
Projects that offer new approaches to delivering legal information or trial a strategy and gain further insights.
Education and communication
Projects that support community legal needs and improve understanding of the justice system
Grants to fit your project
Our grant rounds run at different times throughout the year.
Funding for projects that help to better understand and support the legal needs and capabilities of Victorians.
Support to address community legal need or improve understanding of the justice system.
Grants support
Resources to find the right grant for your project and support to help you submit an application or manage your successful project.
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Case studies
Learn more about some of the projects funded by our grants.
Following the shift to routine digital engagement when applying to the court for family violence intervention orders, this partnership project between Northern Community Legal Centre and the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights will unpack the range of process issues and barriers to participation faced by culturally and linguistically diverse women within Melbourne’s North-West.
A video project designed to increase awareness and use of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights by showing how it can benefit Victorians.
Delivery of community legal education to help culturally and linguistically diverse young people increase their literacy on family violence issues and shift attitudes that allow it to occur.
Updating two of WIRE’s high distribution information booklets - Separation & Property and Stalking to include changes in legislation, support agency information and accessibility to meet the needs of the audience.
Projects we've funded
Major Grants are now open
We support investigations into a civil legal problems, projects that develop data capability or new approaches responding to community legal need.