Improving Lives Through Advice Programme Launched with £30 Million Funding from The National Lottery Community Fund
We are delighted to announce the launch of the Improving Lives Through Advice programme, made possible by a £30 million grant from The National Lottery Community Fund, thanks to National Lottery players. Working in partnership with the largest community funder in the UK, the Improving Lives Through Advice programme will ensure continued access to specialist […]
Gender Gaps in Access to Civil Legal Justice: New Report Reveals Alarming Disadvantages Faced by Women
Gender Gaps in Access to Civil Legal Justice The Women’s Budget Group, using funding from the Community Justice Fund and with support from the Access to Justice Foundation, has today released a report with new survey data that sheds light on gender disparities in accessing civil legal justice and the pressing needs, barriers, and adverse […]
Welcoming Dame Maura McGowan DBE as our new Chair
We’re delighted to announce the appointment of Dame Maura McGowan DBE as its new Chair. Maura brings a wealth of legal expertise and a deep commitment to promoting equal access to justice for all. She is a fierce public advocate of the promotion of inclusion and equality. Maura was appointed as the Lord Chief Justice’s […]
Announcing the Improving Outcomes Through Legal Support grant programme!
Following a successful funding round, we are pleased to announce that grants have now been awarded as part of the Improving Outcomes Through Legal Support (IOTLS) grant. A total of 59 organisations based across England and Wales will receive a total of £10m in funding to support their work to sustain and improve access to […]
The Funding Gap – Free Legal Advice Sector 2023-24
The Funding Gap – Free Legal Advice Sector 2023-24 The Community Justice Fund has published its third annual review of the financial health of the free legal advice sector in order to give a broad indication of the issues faced by advice services at the frontline. The report makes clear that Community Justice Fund grantee […]
Advice Agencies are Already Feeling the Impact of the Cost of Living Crisis
Advice Agencies are Already Feeling the Impact of the Cost of Living Crisis Here is what Michael Fawole, Director of the North East Law Centre, told us about the impact that the cost of living crisis is already having on advice agencies… We have seen an increase in demand of approximately 40% across our welfare […]
Pro bono costs awards in tribunals need more publicity
Each year thousands of lawyers give their time and skills ‘pro bono’ to help people who cannot afford to pay for representation. Since 2007, the civil courts have been able to make ‘pro bono costs orders’ in favour of successful parties who are in receipt of pro bono representation. The losing party is required to […]
Specialist Legal Advice Funding Report
Mapping Specialist Legal Advice Funding Working together with 360 Giving, we have published a report which begins to map funding to specialist legal advice providers, and the relationship between income streams. Using data and analysis from 360Giving, the report provides a profile of the sector providers and where available, information on what was being funded, […]
Our Joint CEO on the Community Justice Fund: “collaboration has shifted the way we do things forever”
In a recent blog for the Funders Collaborative Hub, the Access to Justice Foundation’s Joint CEO Clare Carter wrote of the importance of the Community Justice Fund partnership to supporting the Free Legal Advice Sector. She discussed such points as: The Access to Justice Foundation’s contribution to the partnership. The value of pooling funds and […]
International Women’s Day Message
A statement from the Access to Justice Foundation’s Joint CEOs Clare Carter and Ruth Daniel marking International Women’s Day: “This International Women’s Day, here at the Access to Justice Foundation, we are proud of all the Foundation has been able to achieve in providing and allocating essential funding to the many free legal advice charities […]