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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.
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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
Reproductive coercion and abuse (RCA) is emerging as a critical and under-researched form of family/intimate partner violence. South-East Monash Legal Service seek to better understand RCA in the legal context, and identify effective strategies and interventions to ensure that the legal assistance sector is able to effectively support disclosures of RCA.
Translation of information about the service's Sex Worker Legal Program to extend the reach of community legal assistance to this cohort.
Develop a ‘Discrimination Claims Self-Representation Kit’ to guide people through the process of running their own legal discrimination claim.
This project will build an understanding of the complexities of family dynamics, care arrangements, and family violence. This work aims to build a foundational knowledge base for caregivers, care recipients and multidisciplinary service providers to inform monitoring procedures, preventive interventions, and safety planning.
The Activist Rights website has recently undergone a significant re-design and update to make it more modern and user friendly.
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.
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Get in touch with the Grants team to discuss your idea or learn more about what we fund.