FREE REPRESENTATION UNIT

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - Free Representation Unit
£5,000	19/10/2023	for continuation funding towards the salary of a legal officer helping supervise trainees who provide free legal representation for disadvantaged individuals across the county
Trust for London - Free Representation Unit
£145,000	08/02/2023	The funding is for increasing the number of people who are properly represented in social security tribunals to support decent living standards and employment tribunals to support better work. Work to understand and remove barriers to referral and ....more The funding is for increasing the number of people who are properly represented in social security tribunals to support decent living standards and employment tribunals to support better work. Work to understand and remove barriers to referral and represent 450 more clients, protecting income and securing rights.
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Free Representation Unit
£7,000	12/05/2022	to support the salary of a legal officer helping supervise trainees who provide free legal representation for disadvantaged individuals across the county
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£75,000	05/08/2020	A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Free Representation Unit
£9,625	09/04/2020	A one-off, unrestricted grant of £9,625, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisations current grant.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Free Representation Unit
£142,500	21/03/2019 60	£142,500 core funding over five years (£38,500, £33,500, £28,500, £23,500, £18,500) to provide free legal advice and representation in tribunals to vulnerable clients and those on low incomes in London.
Trust for London - Free Representation Unit
£120,000	04/10/2017 36	The funding is to support and continue the Employment Self-Referral project employing a Legal Officer and Self-Referral Manager supporting our work over three years. We will build on previous success from funding from TFL, developing the work to ....more The funding is to support and continue the Employment Self-Referral project employing a Legal Officer and Self-Referral Manager supporting our work over three years. We will build on previous success from funding from TFL, developing the work to provide capacity to assist additional claimants following the declaration that tribunal fees were unlawful.

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Trustees (3)

Legal constitution

• Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/01/1987, number: 295952

Gift Aid

• Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Filing Record

Main office

1st Floor
10/11 Gray's Inn Square
Gray's Inn
London
WC1R 5JD

Objectives

(1) TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY PROVIDING LEGAL ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION BEFORE TRIBUNALS AND COURTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD SUCH ADVICE OR REPRESENTATION; AND(2) TO ASSIST IN THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OR LAW STUDENTS, PUPILS, TRAINEES, JUNIOR BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS THROUGH THE DELIVERY OF (1) ABOVE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ENGLAND AND WALES