The Community Justice Fund (CJF) was a joint initiative focused on supporting the provision of specialist social welfare legal advice across the UK, it operated from 2020-2024. Its legacy is the Improving Lives Through Advice (ILTA) programme which is delivered by The Access to Justice Foundation.
Originally set up in response to the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020, the Community Justice Fund raised £17.3m and made 420 grants to advice giving charities all across the UK.
The CJF was a collaborative funding initiative which provided a vehicle to bring together funders to support the sector in mitigating the impact of the pandemic and subsequent cost of living crisis.
The Community Justice Fund was a joint initiative between the advice sector and a group of independent funders. It was hosted by The Access to Justice Foundation.
In addition to providing vital funding to support people, places, and communities most in need, the Community Justice Fund also produced a range of learning pieces on the impact of the cost of living crisis on both the organisations, and the people they were supporting.
This can be through:
The Cost of Living Survey (August 2022) demonstrated that:
The funding provided by CJF enabled advice organisations to address wider societal issues:
The analysis of grant applications in October 2022 highlighted the common barriers people, places, and communities experience when trying to access justice:
We found that there is a need for multi-year, flexible funding to:
Funding enables organisations to address barriers to access to justice by:
Funding advice makes savings to the public purse:
Correspondence Address: The Access to Justice Foundation, 7 Bell Yard, London, WC2A 2JR
Email: enquiries@atjf.org.uk
The Access to Justice Foundation is a company limited by guarantee (No. 6714178) and a Registered Charity in England and Wales (No. 1126147) and Scotland (No. SC048584). Registered office: The Access to Justice Foundation, 7 Bell Yard, London WC2A 2JR