Justice Together Initiative

Who they support

We are a charity that operates throughout the United Kingdom to ensure that the justice system is fair, accessible and sustainably resourced. We build effective collaborations between funders, legal and community organisations that work together to create access to justice and social change.

  • The average annual spending of grantees has been £2 million
  • The average age of charities supported has been 18 years.

clare.johns@justice-collaborations.org.uk

02030055695

Justice Collaborations
15 Alfred Place
London
WC1E 7EB


Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 1187441
Charity Commission for England and Wales
Analysis of Grants Made
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In this period 42 donations have been made totalling £9,483,164 to 41 organisations

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Growth in Spending
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Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?
By ValueBy Number
The National Lottery Community Fund 77% 68%
A B Charitable Trust 76% 71%
Paul Hamlyn Foundation 65% 63%
Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales 56% 49%
Access to Justice Foundation 51% 39%
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation 43% 39%
Trust for London 42% 44%
The Henry Smith Charity 38% 39%
The Legal Education Foundation 35% 27%
The Tudor Trust 33% 32%
Sole supporter: 10% by number, 4% by value.
Individual Grants Made
When Amount Annual
Spending
Grantee To be used for
23/11/2022 £500,000 £837,686 BRISTOL LAW CENTRE Strengthening access to specialist immigration advice across the SW, by boosting advice capacity, skills development and collaboration among 6 community-based advice providers coordinated by Bristol Law Centre (BLC)
23/11/2022 £150,000 £219,810 NEW EUROPEANS UK Development of immigration advice services in Leicester City for vulnerable EU citizens, with Pre Settled Status who need to reapply and other migrants.
23/11/2022 £450,000 £4,113,217 COMMUNITY ADVICE AND LAW SERVICE To develop a strategic partnership of 10 organisations, coordinated by CALS, that will bring together specialist legal advice agencies and grassroots organisations that seek to tackle race inequality and support migrants and refugees
23/11/2022 £50,000 COVENTRY ASYLUM AND REFUGEE ACTION GROUP (CARAG) Increasing CARAG's capacity by training members to become OISC certified in partnership with CELC which will deliver the training and offer supervision. This will bridge a gap in the rising need for legal advice among CARAG's community
23/11/2022 £250,000 £480,331 ASYLUM AID To deliver in-depth training, supervision and support to three cohorts of up to 4 OISC level 2 advisers over the course of the project. Each cohort will be trained, supervised and supported by an experienced and accredited supervisor to create a sustained pipeline of advisers into the sector.
05/07/2022 £18,500 £836,581 NORFOLK COMMUNITY LAW SERVICE Development grant to fund a consultant to identify the challenges facing the East of England in the provision of specialist immigration advice. Develop a proposal/s for accessible, sustainable, independent, co-ordinated and client focused services. Facilitate coordination to enable stakeholders to meet and communicate view with the consultant and each other.
01/07/2022 £425,000 £2,811,770 THE REFUGEE AND MIGRANT CENTRE: BLACK COUNTRY AND BIRMINGHAM In partnership, the Refugee and Migrant Centre, Brushstrokes, Hope Projects, and Citizens Advice Staffordshire North and Stoke-on-Trent will strengthen immigration services in Birmingham, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Dudley and Staffordshire, thus enabling marginalised migrants to access free, regulated legal advice, to access the support they need to settle in the UK.
01/07/2022 £400,000 £313,014 ASYLUM JUSTICE Asylum Justice, working with the British Red Cross to extend the reach and capacity of free immigration advice across Wales. Undertaking complex family reunion applications which “fall outside of the rules, running remote 1-2-1 advice hubs, and training up British Red Cross staff and volunteers to carry out evidence gathering.
08/06/2022 £200,000 £390,467 MIGRANT ACTION Centring transformational change, Justice for Change articulates the intersectionality of migration and racial justice operationalised by bridging service delivery, grassroots organising and system change.
08/06/2022 £75,000 TULIA A grant to fund a level 2 caseworker, translators fees and contribution to core costs which will enable Tulia to continue providing free or low-cost immigration legal advice and representation at OISC level.
08/06/2022 £100,024 £345,350 THE BEVAN FOUNDATION Utilising robust evidence and through building a coalition of support for change, comprising groups with lived experience of the migration system, lawyers and other bodies. They will seek to shape and inform public policy to improve access to fair, timely and good quality immigration advice of all kinds in Wales.
18/03/2022 £132,000 £641,641 EAST EUROPEAN RESOURCE CENTRE (EERC) Project plans to deliver immigration advice and casework for Eastern and Central Europeans and dependents. Further, engage with local authorities and mainstream providers to influence policy and practice.
18/03/2022 £70,000 £129,890 WORK RIGHTS CENTRE Supporting Eastern Europeans in including refugees and the Ukrainian community in the UK to rebuild their lives. In practice, aiming to provide good information, specialist advice and casework and advocacy, and working together with local authorities and key stakeholders.
17/12/2021 £18,000 £837,686 BRISTOL LAW CENTRE A grant to fund a consultant to identify the challenges currently facing the South West in terms of the provision of specialist immigration advice and to come up with proposals for a more accessible, sustainable, collaborative and co-ordinated sector in the best interest of clients. We will also create a steering group.
30/11/2021 £275,000 £386,310 FOCUS ON LABOUR EXPLOITATION FLEX will conduct outreach and research with temporary migrants, and evidence-based advocacy to improve the fairness and safety of the Tier 5 Seasonal Worker Visa for agriculture and future temporary immigration routes that will likely be introduced to relieve labour shortages affecting industries like care, construction, hospitality, and logistics.
30/11/2021 £250,000 £219,214 MANUEL BRAVO PROJECT A multi agency partnership across Leeds and Hull designed to improve both access to immigration advice in areas lacking provision and collaborative working within the third sector through the innovative use of technology.
30/11/2021 £388,560 £1,067,808 ASYLUM WELCOME Four organisations collaborating to improve the availability and quality of legal advice for EU migrants, asylum seekers, failed asylum seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants. Building on existing advice work, the project will deploy extra level 2 and level 3 advisors; improve training and professional supervision; increase advocacy; and share learning.
30/11/2021 £250,000 £3,100,019 CORAM CHILDREN’S LEGAL CENTRE Outreach and delivery of immigration legal advice at youth groups and services across London, including advice desert boroughs, improving coordination and capacity of the network. This will be combined with youth-led influencing and organising work, to bring youth groups together to win change.
30/11/2021 £200,000 SOUTH TYRONE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME (STEP) Joint working ensuring timely, appropriate and effective remedy for those needing immigration advice and access to justice; strengthening the partnership between network members offering regulated immigration advice (OISC 2 & 3) & self-managed immigrant groups ; building individual group capacity and shared resource and self-agency for immigrants in Northern Ireland.
30/11/2021 £350,000 £889,171 MIGRANTS ORGANISE LTD Work that builds on migrant’s organise longstanding migrant led approach, extensive grassroots network and recent OISC level 3 registration to; Improve advice journeys; Strengthen sector capacity, coordination, and retention; Support grassroots access to both advice and funding; Facilitate platforms for migrants to voice their experience and ideas.
30/11/2021 £250,000 £6,640,000 REFUGEE ACTION A grant to strengthen regional immigration advice delivery to prevent destitution of asylum seekers, increase capacity for complex work and ensure sustainability, and create pathways for people with lived experience to access paid employment in the immigration sector, and support legal providers to shift power and move towards becoming anti-racist employers.
30/11/2021 £111,440 £169,558 SAMPHIRE Increasing the level of OISC capacity to take on more referrals from stakeholders across wider areas around Kent in order to provide immigration advice and secure a sustainable future for the immigration legal project in terms of funding and continuity. This will include a new part-time OISC level 3 post to support the Level 2 adviser.
30/11/2021 £117,555 THE3MILLION Growing the community lawyering of EU citizens in the UK, to champion people’s lived experience of the UK immigration system and organise impactful policy and advocacy programmes, protecting their rights through developing and conducting litigation, with key stakeholders by empowering individuals, organisations to lead legal action.
30/11/2021 £155,412 £142,984 ASYLOS Reviewing and publicly commenting on Country Policy and Information Notes - information the Home Office compiles and uses to inform its asylum and immigration decisions. The review ensures that this information meets the highest quality standards, promoting fairer decision-making and earlier access to protection.
30/11/2021 £270,000 £10,422,388 FREEDOM FROM TORTURE A grant to support survivors of torture who are asylum seekers and refugees in the UK via: (1) Participatory promotion of access to justice (2) improved quality and accessibility of legal advice & representation; (3) Survivor-centred advocacy; and (4) Survivor co-led movement-building.
30/11/2021 £300,000 £662,051 SOUTH LONDON REFUGEE ASSOCIATION Developing established partnership work to improve access to quality immigration advice for the most disadvantaged migrant families, primarily in Lambeth and Southwark. Providing specialist immigration advice with clear referral pathways through local community settings and engage those with lived experience to influence local policy.
30/11/2021 £300,000 LAW CENTRE NORTHERN IRELAND Funding to ensure high quality specialist legal assistance is reliably and equitably available across Northern Ireland, sustaining Law Centre NI’s specialist regional immigration law hub. Transform the availability of basic immigration law advice in NI by establishing an immigration advice apprenticeship scheme for migrant-led organisations at OISC Level 1.
24/08/2021 £250,347 £1,959,326 PUBLIC LAW PROJECT The provision of strategic public law support to JTI partners to support and enhance influencing opportunities arising in the course of partners' work.
05/07/2021 £19,600 £1,014,511 NOTTINGHAM AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE REFUGEE FORUM Developing existing network of asylum organisations in Nottingham to provide a sustainable legal advice service that is accessible and affordable to clients. To this end, developing a collaborative approach based on a hub model.
20/04/2021 £150,000 £1,392,539 HIBISCUS INITIATIVES Funding will enable Hibiscus to set up an influencing department within the organisation designed to leverage data from the grassroots, to advocate for legislation and policy change, and to create platforms for those with lived experience to become agents of change in reducing inequalities in the immigration system.
20/04/2021 £195,000 £694,882 RIGHTS OF WOMEN Influencing work that results in improved access to advice, rights and protections for migrant women who are vulnerable due to VAWG. Rights of Woemn will use a joined-up approach that connects evidence base, learning and provision as a frontline and second tier specialist advice provider to make strategic policy interventions.
20/04/2021 £165,000 £6,435,318 CITIZENS UK To recruit four part-time organisers (2.4 FTE) from diaspora communities with lived-experience of the immigration system and its impact to work with migrant communities across the country on access to justice campaigns and have the support (policy, parliamentary, communications) needed to turn their organising into change.
20/04/2021 £241,731 £2,727,977 INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH (IPPR) This project will learn the lessons of Covid-19 to improve access to justice for people with insecure immigration status and advocate for a fairer, more effective immigration system. Through a partnership between IPPR, Praxis and GMIAU, the project aims to generate change through systematic evidence gathering, political influencing and grassroots campaigning.
20/04/2021 £600,000 £707,663 NORTH EAST LAW CENTRE A grant to create a Specialist Immigration Advice Hub to increase access to advice for clients throughout the North East. The aim of the hub model, is to build a partnership between expert legal organisations and civil society organisations, to provide consistent, quality assured and holistic support to migrants throughout the North East.
20/04/2021 £200,000 £396,237 RAINBOW MIGRATION A grant to support policy work, strategic litigation and strategic communications to make the asylum system fairer for LGBTQI+ people.
20/04/2021 £150,000 £665,654 WOMEN FOR REFUGEE WOMEN Researching how to most effectively persuade key audiences on the need for a fair, timely and accessible immigration system. Together with regional partners, W4RW are developing and implementing an ambitious and creative communications strategy to shift public opinion in this challenging political climate.
20/04/2021 £486,437 £1,051,382 GREATER MANCHESTER IMMIGRATION AID UNIT Building the foundations of a collaborative, strategic approach to transforming access to immigration legal advice in the north west of England. This includes strengthening GMIAU's structure; and providing training to people with lived experience and partner agencies to meet the needs of people most marginalised in the immigration system.
20/04/2021 £200,000 £944,933 JUSTRIGHT SCOTLAND A grant to increase and strengthen capacity to deliver legal advice through existing collaborations and develop new collaborations and referral pathways. It also supports developing models of advice and enabling policy and influencing work id led by front-line data and lived experience.
20/04/2021 £120,000 MIGRANT CENTRE NI Applying a gender justice lens to advocate for women with no recourse to public funds, victims of domestic violence and female frontier workers working between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. Lobbying and advocacy aimed at legislative, movement building, and coalition leadership to advocate for a just immigration system.
20/04/2021 £115,000 REUNITE FAMILIES UK A grant to aid transition into registration as company and creation of an umbrella network of local/national migration groups representing those affected by the UK's restrictive family immigration rules. Increase support for families navigating the system; provide opportunities for localised action; and influence a fairer family migration system through evidence.
20/04/2021 £200,000 £3,705,290 SCOTTISH REFUGEE COUNCIL A grant to improve experiences, understanding of the asylum/welfare systems of 200 families, improving advice sector collaboration in Scotland by piloting an end-to-end case management model. Informing on existing immigration advice systems and testing the concept as a solution to a sustainably resourced immigration advice system in Scotland.
20/04/2021 £333,558 £324,382 SETTLED A grant to increase availability of free, expert and locally accessible legal advice related to the EU Settlement Scheme, by creating two new OISC Level 2 posts in the North West and Scotland and collaborating with local community partners to ensure referrals of vulnerable and isolated EU citizens.
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