Better understand and respond to legal need

Funding and support for new 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

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.

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.

Applications open July 1 2025
Everyday Legal Grant

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

Everyday Legal Grants open 1 July 2025

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Grants case studies

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

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Springvale Monash Legal Service developed a profile of wage theft and underpayment recovery actions through analysis of administrative data, case characteristics and outcomes.

Exploring if COVID-19 fines were disproportionately issued to culturally and linguistically diverse communities during 2020.

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.

Understanding the relationship between how women’s agency, the extent to which they can tell their own story, is portrayed in Family Violence Intervention Order applications and the outcomes of those applications.

Projects we've funded

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Victorian Law week events at Neighbourhood Houses
Victorian Law week events at Neighbourhood Houses
Everyday Legal Grant
Current
2022/23
Neighbourhood Houses Victoria
Your Rights, Your Choice
Your Rights, Your Choice
Community Legal Grant
Current
2022/23
Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC)
Bumpd website
Bumpd website
Everyday Legal Grant
Completed
2021/22
Bumpd Limited
Evaluating the impact of integrated, cross sector models of legal practice
Evaluating the impact of integrated, cross sector models of legal practice
Knowledge Grant
Completed
2021/22
First Step Legal
Information for young people impacted by the Family Law system
Information for young people impacted by the Family Law system
Community Legal Grant
Current
2021/22
Eastern Community Legal Centre
Inside the law: Legal information for people in prison
Inside the law: Legal information for people in prison
Community Legal Grant
Current
2021/22
Fitzroy Legal Service
Job Watch videos
Job Watch videos
Everyday Legal Grant
Completed
2021/22
Job Watch
Legal Street Smarts - Socially Networked
Legal Street Smarts - Socially Networked
Community Legal Grant
Current
2021/22
Westjustice
Mitchell Shire Peer Education Project
Mitchell Shire Peer Education Project
Community Legal Grant
Completed
2021/22
Northern Community Legal Centre
Planning Ahead
Planning Ahead
Everyday Legal Grant
Completed
2021/22
John Pierce Centre
Policing health – exploring racial profiling in issuing of COVID-19 fines
Policing health – exploring racial profiling in issuing of COVID-19 fines
Knowledge Grant
Completed
2021/22
Inner Melbourne Community Legal
Reducing family violence through education for CALD young people
Reducing family violence through education for CALD young people
Community Legal Grant
Completed
2021/22
Peninsula Community Legal Centre
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Grants support

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

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.