Better understand and respond to legal need
Funding and support for new community legal initiatives to support better justice.
Funding for legal initiatives and projects
Our grants program provides funding to support new community legal initiatives.
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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Grants case studies
Learn more about some of the projects funded by our grants.
This project will help migrant women experiencing family violence to stay in Australia. Peninsula Community Legal Centre will create an online tool to guide support workers through the complex application process for women whose visa status is dependent on their partner to remain in Australia and leave the abusive relationship.
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.
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.