Respond to legal need

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

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Funding for legal initiatives and projects

Our grants program provides funding to support new community legal initiatives.

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.

Major Grant

Funding for projects that help to better understand and support the legal needs and capabilities of Victorians.

Everyday Legal Grant

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

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Projects we've funded

Browse projects and access reports and other outputs from funded projects.

Our commitment to building capability

We prioritise projects that improve understanding of legal need and capability and increasing opportunities for Victorians to resolve their everyday legal issues.

Recent case studies

Learn more about some of the projects funded by our grants.

First Step Legal implemented data-driven practices to evaluate the effectiveness of the health justice partnership model in Victoria.

L-R: First Step Legal's Laura Brennan, Tania Wolff, and Lisa Ward.

Grants support

Information to find the right grant for your project and support to help you submit an application or manage your successful project.

Resources to find the right grant for your project and support to help you submit an application or manage your successful project.

Information and resources to help you plan research activities to suit the nature and purpose of your research and the needs of all participants.

Our commitment to building capability

We prioritise projects that improve understanding of legal need and capability and increasing opportunities for Victorians to resolve their everyday legal issues.