Everyday Legal Grant

Support to address community legal need or improve understanding of the justice system.

$10,000
Close June 30 2025 or until funding has been fully allocated
Support to address community legal need or improve understanding of the justice system.

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.

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

Subscribe to our Grants newsletter to receive information about future grant opportunities.

Keep up with the latest

Subscribe to our Grants newsletter for the latest grant information, support to apply and completed projects.
We take your privacy seriously and will only email you with occasional updates. More details can be found in our privacy statement.
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

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.

Northern Community Legal Centre

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.

Peninsula Community Legal Centre

Projects we've funded

Search
Clear
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Tag
Showing 0 of 00
Consumer Action Law Centre
2023/24

Community consultation to ensure resources reflect language, terminology and content that meet the needs of First Nations people.

First Nations
Consumer law
Legal education
3CR Community Radio
2023/24

The project will produce and distribute a series of engaging and informative legal rights messages for a general community broadcasting audience. The short announcements will address issues such as protest rights, renter rights, fines, consumer law and family violence. The content will be tailored to a community radio listening audience.

Rights
Consumer law
Housing
Fines
Family violence
Job Watch
2023/24

Develop a ‘Discrimination Claims Self-Representation Kit’ to guide people through the process of running their own legal discrimination claim.

Employment
Legal education
Better Place Australia
2023/24

Legal Forum and Training for frontline workers to better understand jurisdiction complexity and legal assistance pathways for clients with complex and compounding issues.

Family violence
First Nations
Legal profession
Building capability
Monash Law Clinics
2023/24

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.

Family violence
Families and relationships
Research
Tenants Victoria
2023/24

This project will enable Tenants Victoria to develop an informed understanding of the legal needs of single-parent renters and identify factors to enhance the impact of its legal assistance service model with this cohort.

Parents
Research
South-East Monash Legal Service
2023/24

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.

Family violence
Legal assistance
Research
WEstjustice
2023/24

Westjustice will conduct research into their legal capability to understand their legal needs and adapt legal services to improve access to the service.

Refugees and migrants
Cultural and linguistic diversity
Research
No results found.
There are no results with this criteria. Try changing your search.

Better understand and respond to legal need

Funding and support for new community legal initiatives to support better justice.