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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Resistance and Agency: The Important of Language in applications for Family Violence Intervention Orders
Resistance and Agency: The Important of Language in applications for Family Violence Intervention Orders
Knowledge Grant
Completed
2021/22
Westjustice
SEMVAC Talks
SEMVAC Talks
Everyday Legal Grant
Completed
2021/22
South Eastern Melbourne Vietnamese Associations' Council
Strengthening Intake Quality in Legal Assistance
Strengthening Intake Quality in Legal Assistance
Knowledge Grant
Completed
2021/22
Eastern Community Legal Centre
Strengthening legal pathways for CALD women
Strengthening legal pathways for CALD women
Everyday Legal Grant
Completed
2021/22
Peninsula Community Legal Centre
Child Protection Permanency Research
Child Protection Permanency Research
Knowledge Grant
Completed
2020/21
Women's Legal Service Victoria
Consent Legal Education in Schools
Consent Legal Education in Schools
Everyday Legal Grant
Completed
2020/21
Moonee Valley Legal Service
Criminal Records and Employment
Criminal Records and Employment
Everyday Legal Grant
Completed
2020/21
Job Watch
Developing the evidence base on underpayment recovery and civil justice
Developing the evidence base on underpayment recovery and civil justice
Knowledge Grant
Completed
2020/21
Springvale Monash Legal Service Inc .
Empowering communities through peers
Empowering communities through peers
Everyday Legal Grant
Completed
2020/21
Women's Legal Service Victoria
Gendered injustice: Identifying the intersections between unmet civil legal and social needs and women’s criminalisation
Gendered injustice: Identifying the intersections between unmet civil legal and social needs and women’s criminalisation
Knowledge Grant
Completed
2020/21
Fitzroy Legal Service
Hearing from Renters: Using digital tools to seek legal remedies
Hearing from Renters: Using digital tools to seek legal remedies
Community Legal Grant
Completed
2020/21
Tenants Victoria
Law for Community Workers Pilot
Law for Community Workers Pilot
Community Legal Grant
Completed
2020/21
Barwon Community Legal Service
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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.