Our strategy

While our primary goals remain increasing funding for the provision of free legal advice and making impactful grants, we have identified some additional areas to focus on in 2025–2028:

1. Investing in and building our data capability to more effectively make the case for funding and to inform best practice in service delivery.
2. Investing in our internal infrastructure to ensure we have the systems, capabilities and resources needed to take us forward.
3. Broadening our funding base, both through traditional fundraising streams (e.g. individual giving, pro bono costs orders, residual client balances, corporate donations) and investing significant resource in exploring transformative funding models (e.g. collective actions, interest on lawyers’ client accounts, bona vacantia).
4. Improving our external communications through demonstrating the impact of the work we fund.

We exist because we believe society and people’s lives are better when there is universal access to justice. We achieve this through raising funds and making impactful grants to organisations that deliver free legal advice.

• We are an expert UK wide funder solely focused on funding free legal advice services.
• We work collaboratively with other funders, our funded partners and the wider legal community.
• We fundraise with the legal community and all those with an interest in social justice.
• We advocate for how more people can get access to the advice they need in innovative ways e.g. through technology or co-location with community groups.
• We lead discussions on how new ways of funding free legal advice services could be implemented.

• We fund work which improves access to free legal advice in the UK.
• We are led by evidence, and it informs how we work in both our funding and fundraising. This includes both evidence we generate ourselves and evidence produced by others.
• We listen to our funded partners and other providers of advice to ensure our work stays focused on where it can be most effective.
• We are committed to best practice as a funder. This includes having appropriate controls in place whilst building trust and openness with our funded partners. We commit to only asking for information we need to use and feeding back on our use of it.
• We are trusted by our funded partners to use the evidence we collate together to make the case for increased funding and to inform and influence decision making on what good looks like in the delivery and funding of advice services.