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The Access To Justice Foundation

We increase the support available to vulnerable people requiring access to the legal system through strategic grant making and supporting the advice sector.

About The Access To Justice Foundation


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The Access to Justice Foundation was set up by the legal profession. We are the only national charity solely focused on funding and supporting access to justice. The Foundation give grants to advice agencies across the country that provide legal advice on a range of issues.

We raise funds and distribute them strategically to those advice agencies who can make the most difference to the lives of vulnerable people.

We fund Law Centres, local citizens’ advice, independent advice agencies, pro bono projects and national charities, which help to facilitate access to justice.

To ensure help reaches those most in need we work in partnership with committees across the regions of England, in Wales and in Scotland. We also work to support the sector in other ways, consulting with sector organisations around what we can most usefully do to support them. This includes exploring new and better ways for the sector to collaborate and to increase the effectiveness of the sector, working closely with other advice funders and working closely with other partners.

In 2018, the Access to Justice Foundation distributed a total of £2,080,182 in grants to support free legal help for those in need. The organisations we support work tirelessly to help the most vulnerable in society. Some examples of the work we fund are:

- Keeping family breadwinners in employment through challenging unlawful discrimination.
- Preventing young families from being made homeless.
- Supporting disabled people to avoid poverty by achieving a basic level of income.
- Helping victims of sexual violence and torture to rebuild their lives.

Over the past ten years we have made over 300 grants worth over £7m, providing advice to tens of thousands of people.

The Foundation’s most recent grants round had 100 applications, out of which we will only be able to support around 10% due to the funds that are available.

Your Impact

The Access for Justice Foundation works across the country to increase support to vulnerable people through strategic grant making and supporting the valuable work of the advice sector.