Understand and respond to legal need
Funding and support for new community legal initiatives to support better justice.
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.
Funding for projects that help to better understand and support the legal needs and capabilities of Victorians.
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.
Grants case studies
Learn more about some of the projects funded by our grants.
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.
Help for CALD women to increase their legal literacy on family violence/law issues through community legal education tailored to their cultural and linguistic community.
Grants support
Information to find the right grant for your project and support to help you submit an application or manage your successful project.
Information, guidance, support and resources to help you prepare and submit a successful application.
Resources and information to help you plan your activities as a starting point to tailor to the nature and purpose of your research and the needs of all participants.
There are many benefits but also challenges when involving people with lived/living experience in your research.
We offer support to deliver great projects and have a few simple requirements for of grant recipients.
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.