The 2025-26 Major Grants and Everyday Legal Grants are now open

Building capability to understand and respond to legal need

Applications are now open for our 2025-26 Major Grants and Everyday Legal Grants.

Our Grants Program reflects our commitment to building capability. We prioritise projects that improve understanding of legal need and capability and increase opportunities for Victorians to resolve their everyday legal issues.

We offer funding for projects that:

• investigate a civil legal problem or access to justice issue

• improve data and research capability

• develop responses to meet legal need.

This is the second offering of our Major Grants, which combine our previous Knowledge Grants and Community Legal Grants in a new streamlined structure to help support projects that make a real and sustainable difference.

Major Grants

From 1 July 2025, our Major Grants will offer up to $100,000 for projects that help organisations better understand and respond to the civil legal needs and capabilities of Victorians.

Major Grants can be used to fund projects that:

• develop a new understanding through the collection and use of data

• strengthen systems and capabilities to collect, understand and use data

• develop new approaches to help the community understand their legal issues and access the help they need.

We encourage applicants to consider existing research that identifies gaps in legal needs and capabilities to inform their proposal. The Public Understanding of Law Survey and Data Mapping project provide a starting point to explore empirical evidence of legal need and capability. We also host a library of previous grant project reports and outcomes on our website.

Applications are open to:

• community legal organisations

• community organisations with an internal legal service

• community organisations in partnership with a legal service.

We expect to fund at least six Major Grant projects up to $100,000 each.

Major Grants are open from 01 July 2025 – 25 August 2025.

Everyday Legal Grants

From 1 July 2025, our Everyday Legal Grants will offer up to $10,000 for community legal information and education projects.

Everyday Legal Grants can be used to fund civil legal projects that:

• address a civil legal or access to justice issue for a specific community, such as a legal information resource or tool

• develop or trial new approaches to delivering community legal education

• build on previous projects to increase impact.

Applications are open to:

• community legal organisations

• community organisations in partnership with a legal service.

Everyday Legal Grants are open from 01 July 2025 until funding is fully allocated.

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Learn more about our Grants offering.