Access project funding
A range of grants are available 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 needs and improve understanding of the justice system
Grants to fit your project
Our grant rounds run at different times throughout the year.
Help the community to navigate civil legal issues and the Victorian justice system.
Build data capability and research skills to better understand and respond to community need.
Deliver small projects to support community legal need and improve understanding of the justice system.
Grants support
Guidance 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.
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.
A video project designed to increase awareness and use of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights by showing how it can benefit Victorians.
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.
A set of videos that discuss how people who can neither afford a lawyer or access public legal services use digital self-help resources to navigate tenancy legal issues and the relevant legal frameworks.
Projects we've funded
Sessions to provide information on legal strategies to address unfair and unlawful delays in family reunion visa processing.
This project aims to improve the provision of targeted and timely legal help and information for Victorians with financial legal problems by investigating help-seeker data and conducting research with clients and referral partners to identify earlier opportunities for legal help that reduces financial legal problems escalating to court.
This project will develop a culturally safe and educational video that explains what is meant by a conflict of interest in the legal sector for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
Improve Chinese international students’ understanding of housing rights by translating resources and seeking user insights to improve access to future resources
The Law and Advocacy Centre for Women, in partnership with Elizabeth Morgan House and researchers from the University of Melbourne, seek to identify barriers and legal needs of women in custody to maintain contact with their children where child protection is involved. The project addresses the gaps in knowledge and data relating to the unmet legal and support needs for women who are in the criminal justice system, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, and also have child protection involvement.
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.
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Get in touch with the Grants team to discuss your idea or learn more about what we fund.