The Legal Education Foundation

Who they support

Activities - how the charity spends its moneyWe are an independent grant-making foundation operating across the UK to build a society that fosters the principles of justice and fairness, where people understand and use law to bring about positive change and to prevent harm, and where public systems and structures uphold the rule of law.

The average annual spending of grantees has been £16 million
The average age of charities supported has been 20 years.

http://thelegaleducationfoundation.org

secretary@thelef.org

02030055695

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Alfred Place
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Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 271297

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Analysis of Grants Made

In this period 140 donations have been made totalling £19,609,356 to 103 organisations

Where are the Beneficiaries?

How big are the Recipients? ?

Which activities are being funded?

How old were the charities when supported?

Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)

Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?

	By Value	By Number
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation	52%	35%
A B Charitable Trust	47%	48%
Access to Justice Foundation	46%	47%
The National Lottery Community Fund	45%	42%
The Baring Foundation	45%	27%
Trust for London	44%	37%
Paul Hamlyn Foundation	38%	25%
Comic Relief	32%	17%
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust	26%	17%
Unbound Philanthropy	21%	10%

Sole supporter: 19% by number, 16% by value.

Individual Grants Made

When	Amount	Annual Spending	Grantee	To be used for
25/05/2023	£20,000		CIVIC POWER FUND	Contributing to research to map and analyse grant making by social justice funders in the UK.
23/11/2022	£82,310		HOUSING RIGHTS	A grant to Housing Rights to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9.
23/11/2022	£83,863	£707,663	NORTH EAST LAW CENTRE	A grant to North East Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9.
09/11/2022	£80,000		INDEPENDENT WORKERS' UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN (IWGB)	A grant to the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain to help strengthen workplace rights for people in insecure work.
09/11/2022	£150,000	£265,204	COUNCIL OF SOMALI ORGANISATIONS	To build the capacity of Council of Somali Organisations’ members from across England & Wales to give quality legal advice, through providing training and support on different areas of law including welfare benefits and housing.
09/11/2022	£218,500	£570,613	EQUALLY OURS	Strengthen a pan-equality civil society network on human rights protection in the UK through research and strategic communication, focussing on lived experience and evidence-based policy making.
09/11/2022	£150,000	£398,467	GREATER MANCHESTER LAW CENTRE	Core funding to underpin Greater Manchester Law Centre's role as a specialist regional hub for social welfare advice and a resource for communities seeking justice.
09/11/2022	£150,000		GRWP LLYWIO CANOLFAN GYFRAITH Y GOGLEDD / NORTH WALES LAW CENTRE STEERING GROUP	A grant to the North Wales Law Centre Steering Group to help with the establishment and launch of a new Law Centre
09/11/2022	£150,000	£2,727,977	INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH (IPPR)	Programme of research and influencing that seeks to explore the democratic implications of the UK’s post-Brexit constitutional settlement and provide a reform agenda for law-making in the UK.
09/11/2022	£125,000	£422,598	INSTITUTE OF WELSH AFFAIRS (IWA)	Research and engagement with civil society on key constitutional developments affecting Wales, such as consequences of Brexit and approaches to devolution.
09/11/2022	£30,000	£1,227,117	LAW CENTRES NETWORK	Funding to scope a workforce development framework in Law Centres to help build and sustain a diverse and effective workforce.
09/11/2022	£300,000	£1,811,888	LIBERTY	Building a collation of human rights organisations to protect and strengthen the UK human rights framework.
09/11/2022	£62,000		MIGRANTS AT WORK LTD	To upskill frontline advisers on the intersection of immigration and employment law, in order to better identify victims of immigration status-related labour exploitation, criminal exploitation and discrimination.
19/07/2022	£1,232,000	£4,478,000	JUSTICE COLLABORATIONS	Contribution to a funder collaboration that aims to transform access to justice in the UK immigration system. As well as offering funding, it supports grant partners to build the power and influence of people with lived and learned experience of the immigration system and embed anti-racism strategies.
15/06/2022	£96,000	£668,893	DISABILITY LAW SERVICE	A grant to Disability Law Service to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by Trust for London.
15/06/2022	£111,000	£836,581	NORFOLK COMMUNITY LAW SERVICE	A grant to Norfolk Community Law Service to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
15/06/2022	£92,000	£1,526,548	SOUTH WEST LONDON LAW CENTRES	A grant to South West London Law Centres to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by Trust for London.
15/06/2022	£90,000	£707,344	RELEASE	A grant to Release to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9.
15/06/2022	£104,000	£1,508,937	FAMILY RIGHTS GROUP	A grant to Family Rights Group to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by BBC Children in Need.
15/06/2022	£104,000	£332,920,000	CHILDREN’S LEGAL CENTRE WALES AT UNIVERSITY OF SWANSEA	A grant to the Children's Legal Centre Wales at the University of Swansea to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by BBC Children in Need.
15/06/2022	£110,000	£638,142	MATERNITY ACTION	A grant to Maternity Action to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by Trust for London.
15/06/2022	£92,000	£398,467	GREATER MANCHESTER LAW CENTRE	A grant to Greater Manchester Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9.
15/06/2022	£94,000	£313,118	DUNDEE LAW CENTRE	A grant to Dundee Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by AB Charitable Trust.
15/06/2022	£103,691		LIVERPOOL LAW CLINIC AT UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL	A grant to the Liverpool Law Clinic to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by AB Charitable Trust.
15/06/2022	£88,780	£726,886	HARROW LAW CENTRE	A grant to Harrow Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9.
15/06/2022	£108,000	£1,230,961	MARY WARD LEGAL CENTRE	A grant to Mary Ward Legal Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9.
15/06/2022	£85,000	£719,602	CITIZENS ADVICE BARKING & DAGENHAM	A grant to Citizens Advice Barking & Dagenham to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by Trust for London.
15/06/2022	£100,000	£3,100,019	CORAM CHILDREN’S LEGAL CENTRE	A grant to Coram Children's Legal Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by BBC Children in Need.
15/06/2022	£111,500	£460,261	HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM LAW CENTRE	A grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9.
15/06/2022	£95,000	£480,331	ASYLUM AID	A grant to Asylum Aid to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9.
15/06/2022	£83,678		REFUGEE RIGHTS HUB AT SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY	A grant to the Refugee Rights Hub, Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by AB Charitable Trust.
15/06/2022	£150,000	£531,190	THE IMMIGRATION LAW PRACTITIONERS’ ASSOCIATION (ILPA)	Building connections between lawyers and front-line organisations working with vulnerable migrants and supporting pre-litigation research and third-party interventions that change law, policy and practice for people discriminated against because of their migration status.
15/06/2022	£200,000	£144,936	HUMAN RIGHTS CONSORTIUM SCOTLAND	Creating and disseminating legal education resources, and facilitating civil society collaborations, so that Scottish civil society can scrutinise and influence legal, constitutional and administrative changes in Scotland and across the UK following withdrawal from the EU.
15/06/2022	£104,100	£1,644,157	SOUTHWARK LAW CENTRE	Working in partnership with Social Inclusion Recovery Group to recruit, train and support a team of community advocates to provide advice and information for parents of minoritised children who are at risk of exclusion from school.
15/06/2022	£80,000	£315,305	WILTSHIRE LAW CENTRE	Supporting development of the Law Centre through expanding its advice and representation to expand housing and develop welfare benefits legal services.
15/06/2022	£70,000	£984,453	JUSTICE	Carrying out analysis and advocacy of government proposals for constitutional reform in relation to rule of law principles, access to justice and protection of individual rights.
15/06/2022	£150,000	£836,581	NORFOLK COMMUNITY LAW SERVICE (NCLS)	Supporting development work to create sustainable family and domestic abuse legal services in East Anglia. Working in partnership with Suffolk Law Centre.
15/06/2022	£70,000		THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM	Supporting new, community-centred investigations that strengthen the evidence base, raise public awareness and inform decision makers about the protection of rights in our legal systems.
15/06/2022	£210,000	£596,954	PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTRE	Developing the centre as a hub for community lawyering, expanding public law to the immigration advice sector and building capacity at South West London Law Centres to take a community lawyering approach.
15/06/2022	£221,000	£1,161,236	ACCESS SOCIAL CARE	Establishing a social care legal sector community of practice to support policy and influencing work in relation to sustaining community care legal aid.
15/06/2022	£170,000		ADVICE NI	Developing and piloting online training courses as part of a professional development framework for legal advisors in key areas of law such as employment, housing, community care and mental health law in Northern Ireland.
15/06/2022	£99,000		THE3MILLION	Building a network of civil society allies to support creation of a culture of data and human rights compliance in relation to the collection, use and sharing of data on migrants by the UK state.
15/06/2022	£150,000	£3,363,136	CITIZENS ADVICE LIVERPOOL	Supporting Liverpool Access to Advice Network to enhance coordination, promote inter-agency referrals and improve knowledge among advice providers in the region.
10/06/2022	£250,000	£4,478,000	JUSTICE COLLABORATIONS	Strengthening immigration advice and advocacy capacity in organisations reaching Ukrainians and their families in the UK following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
29/04/2022	£52,180	£232,577	BRITISH AND IRISH LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE (BAILII)	To provide additional capacity to BAILII to support the National Archives at their request to launch and bed in a new service to publish judgments of the superior courts of England & Wales.
05/04/2022	£87,317		CENTRE FOR PUBLIC DATA	A project to identify major current data gaps in the justice system; undertake advocacy work to help close at least one gap; and give justice system stakeholders including parliamentarians and civil society groups better tools to help identify and close data gaps in future.
10/11/2021	£300,000		THE CONSTITUTION UNIT AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON	A grant to the UCL constitution unit to inform public and practitioner debate on constitutional principles and democratic standards in the UK, through working with experts to disseminate information that is informed by high-quality domestic and international evidence
10/11/2021	£118,144	£154,156	ARTICLE 39	Providing legal training and support to independent advocates to improve the quality and effectiveness of advocacy as a mechanism for protecting and upholding children’s rights.
10/11/2021	£70,000	£231,339	JUST FAIR	Directly informing and advising policymakers and decision-makers about the implications of Covid-19 and Brexit on economic, social, and cultural rights in the UK and building the capacity of civil society organisations to do the same.
10/11/2021	£180,000	£944,933	JUSTRIGHT SCOTLAND	Sustaining and developing collaborative and inclusive models and partnerships between legal and non-legal organisations across the justice sector in ongoing and emerging areas of legal need in Scotland.
10/11/2021	£300,000	£3,469,263	CENTRAL ENGLAND LAW CENTRE	Core funding to embed a rights-based approach within wider social action and social justice organisations in the Midlands, using this work to influence wider system change.
10/11/2021	£300,000	£6,640,000	REFUGEE ACTION	Training, support and networks to help advisors and organisations secure registration with the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner to deliver accurate, good quality legal advice.
10/11/2021	£20,000		LAW CENTRES NETWORK (ON BEHALF OF CANOLFAN GYFRAITH Y GOGLEDD)	Supporting the development phase of the proposed North Wales Law Centre.
10/11/2021	£285,000	£1,442,237	DISABILITY RIGHTS UK	Working with Deaf & Disabled People’s Organisations to strengthen the provision of advice and information and enhance referral networks.
07/07/2021	£475,000	£4,847,339	CHILD POVERTY ACTION GROUP (CPAG)	Carrying out research, analysis and advocacy to ensure the Universal Credit system operates lawfully including in its use of automated decision-making.
07/07/2021	£30,000	£1,301,375	THE AIRE CENTRE	Developing training on EU retained law and social welfare entitlements to ensure that local authorities, legal advisers and frontline workers, who engage with vulnerable EEA nationals and their families, understand their current immigration and social welfare rights.
07/07/2021	£189,884	£5,614,175	RAPE CRISIS SCOTLAND	Working with women with experience of gender based violence to develop training for police, judiciary and Crown Prosecutors to implement improvements to how sexual offences are prosecuted in Scotland.
07/07/2021	£380,000	£1,508,937	FAMILY RIGHTS GROUP	Developing and delivering training to implement recommendations from the Care Crisis Review Public Law Working Group, aimed at the judiciary, magistrates, child welfare leaders, practitioners and families.
07/07/2021	£76,500	£917,278	OPEN TRUST	Working with the media, policymakers, and civil society to assess and increase transparency, accountability, and the protection of rights by examining the effectiveness of legal mechanisms that allow scrutiny over government decisions
07/07/2021	£86,460		CHILD RIGHTS AND YOUTH JUSTICE C.I.C.	Establishing child criminal law as a specialism, supporting recommendations to raise the remuneration of child criminal advocacy and developing an evidence base for introducing an accreditation scheme to ensure quality of representation for children.
07/07/2021	£250,000		HUMAN RIGHTS CONSORTIUM	Supporting an alliance of civil society organisations from across the UK to scrutinise and influence constitutional, administrative and legal changes taking place in the UK following withdrawal from the EU.
07/07/2021	£150,000	£1,051,382	GREATER MANCHESTER IMMIGRATION AID UNIT	Strengthening the infrastructure of GMIAU to underpin a collaborative, strategic approach to transforming access to immigration legal advice in the north west of England.
07/07/2021	£350,000		LEGAL AID PRACTITIONERS GROUP (LAPG)	The creation of a training and development hub to underpin a management career path in the advice sector and to provide training, expert assistance and mentoring on management, leadership and governance.
01/07/2021	£17,600	£1,161,236	ACCESS SOCIAL CARE	Leading a scoping exercise to understand the challenges to career pathways in community care law and recommend next steps.
16/06/2021	£214,270	£576,146	ANTI TRAFFICKING AND LABOUR EXPLOITATION UNIT (ATLEU)	Increasing access to justice for survivors of trafficking and slavery through a programme to drive up standards in legal representation. This will include training, mentoring, advice and resources for legal advisers.
16/06/2021	£78,540	£1,211,184	LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST	Maximising legal aid income and improving cash flow for not-for-profit legal advice providers by recruiting specialist billing coordinators and delivering certified billing training in partnership with DG Legal.
16/06/2021	£67,026	£196,151	RIGHT TO REMAIN	Delivering Right to Remain’s programme of legal education and knowledge-sharing on the UK’s asylum and immigration system by producing and maintaining its unique online toolkit.
16/06/2021	£135,655	£588,194	ASYLUM SUPPORT APPEALS PROJECT (ASAP)	Delivering training for advice and women's organisations, to enable them to make high quality applications for asylum support. Sharing learning on asylum support law and practice, to increase access to justice through asylum support appeals and to gather evidence to challenge unlawful Home Office practices.
16/06/2021	£230,000	£573,201,000	WALES GOVERNANCE CENTRE AT CARDIFF UNIVERSITY	A partnership with the Wales Council for Voluntary Action, to establish a forum to increase the voluntary sector's capacity to engage and respond to changes in the constitutional, legal and governance context instigated by Brexit and to develop coordination between organisations within and outside Wales.
16/06/2021	£290,000	£151,053,000	CITIZENS ADVICE	Improving the consistency, quality and sustainability of OISC Level 1 immigration advice across the local Citizens Advice network in England & Wales, via enhanced referral networks, a complete refresh of online resources for advisers and direct consultancy support to advisers.
07/05/2021	£500,000	£3,355,000	JUSTICE COLLABORATIONS	Contribution to a funder collaboration that aims to transform access to justice in the UK immigration system. As well as offering funding, it supports grant partners to build the power and influence of people with lived and learned experience of the immigration system and embed anti-racism strategies.
21/04/2021	£70,024		THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM	This project will give an unprecedented snapshot of the workings of possession courts, charting the impact of Covid-19 on rent arrears and consequent evictions. It will create a new evidence base to understand how people are losing their homes and where and how people are struggling in the tribunal process.
24/03/2021	£79,058	£373,275	SPEAKEASY LAW CENTRE	A grant to Speakeasy Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£80,656		HOUSING RIGHTS	A grant to Housing Rights to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£78,651	£614,262	NORTH EAST LAW CENTRE	A grant to North East Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£85,730		SHELTER SCOTLAND	A grant to Shelter Scotland to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£98,622	£1,028,548	BRISTOL LAW CENTRE	A grant to Bristol Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£122,394	£334,356	APPEAL	A grant to APPEAL to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£100,250	£576,146	ANTI TRAFFICKING AND LABOUR EXPLOITATION UNIT (ATLEU)	A grant to Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit (ATLEU) to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£80,283		LAW CENTRE NORTHERN IRELAND	A grant to Law Centre Northern Ireland (LCNI) to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£84,500	£451,009	SUFFOLK LAW CENTRE	A grant to Suffolk Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£60,092		HOPKIN MURRAY BESKINE	A grant to Hopkin Murray Beskine to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£82,159	£309,933	LUTON LAW CENTRE	A grant to Luton Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£75,567		THE COMMUNITY LAW PARTNERSHIP	A grant to The Community Law Partnership (with Friends, Families & Travellers) to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£100,913	£370,515	CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S JUSTICE	A grant to Centre for Women's Justice to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£104,690	£207,482	VAUXHALL COMMUNITY LAW & INFORMATION CENTRE	A grant to Vauxhall Community Law & Information Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£90,762	£548,623	TOWER HAMLETS LAW CENTRE	A grant to Tower Hamlets Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
24/03/2021	£62,584	£1,368,708	HOWARD LEAGUE FOR PENAL REFORM	A grant to Howard League for Penal Reform to part fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8. Co-funded by BBC Children in Need.
24/03/2021	£86,641		BHATT MURPHY	A grant to Bhatt Murphy to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8. Hosted in partnership with Article 39.
24/03/2021	£87,192	£944,933	JUSTRIGHT SCOTLAND	A grant to JustRight Scotland (JRS) to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8. Co-funded by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
24/03/2021	£99,122	£2,337,689	JUST FOR KIDS LAW	A grant to Just for Kids Law to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8. Co-funded by BBC Children in Need.
15/02/2021	£113,200	£3,319,875	SCOTTISH WOMEN'S AID	To provide two lawyers in Edinburgh Women's Aid to build capacity and support specialist understanding and take on cases from the women and children they support. Longer term to embed this model of legal service provision in reform of legal aid.
19/01/2021	£147,500	£957,833	CLAN CHILDLAW	A grant to Clan Childlaw to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7. Co-funded by BBC Children in Need.
19/01/2021	£82,914	£71,571,000	SHELTER	A grant to Shelter to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
16/12/2020	£500,000	£11,113,651	THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION	Community Justice Fund (CJF) is a collaborative fund aiming to support specialist social welfare legal advice organisations cope with the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and lay the foundations for longer-term renewal. As agencies continue to deal with the ongoing impact of the pandemic, LEF has contributed to making a second wave of grants in early 2021.
11/11/2020	£150,000	£385,994	RIGHTSNET	Sustaining and expanding the RightsNet website to support advice workers.
11/11/2020	£230,000	£7,334,227	SAFELIVES	Developing and delivering a training programme which seeks to bring about a cultural change for legal practitioners working within family law when responding to cases involving domestic abuse.
11/11/2020	£365,000	£4,424,990	LAW CENTRES NETWORK	To upgrade digital infrastructure for 13 Law Centres to enable remote service provision and ensure a minimum standard for digital equipment and robust systems across the network.
11/11/2020	£393,000	£1,390,618	PUBLIC LAW PROJECT	Ensuring that systems for the exercise and control of executive power are fair and effective, in the aftermath of the significant changes brought on by Brexit and the increase in use of automated decision-making.
11/11/2020	£196,000		SHELTER SCOTLAND	Strengthening the capacity of homelessness support organisations to provide homelessness advice and make appropriate referrals, through resources, training and networking; and increasing Shelter Scotland's opportunity to identify trends and potential strategic challenges that enforce the legal rights of homeless people.
11/11/2020	£134,919		ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ESRC)	This project supports the extension of the Ministry of Justice Data First. The funding is requested by Administrative Data Research (ADR) UK. Data First aims to harness the potential of the wealth of data already created by MoJ, by linking administrative datasets from across the justice system and beyond, and enabling researchers within government as well as approved academics – to access the data in an ethical and responsible way. This investment will support the linking and sharing of civil, family and criminal justice administrative data sets held by HM Courts and Tribunals Service with data held by MoJ and other government departments, such as the Department for Education.
11/11/2020	£50,000	£506,302	LEGAL ACTION GROUP (LAG)	Support to develop a new strategy, adapting to new challenges including the impact of COVID-19.
11/11/2020	£181,000		CHILDREN'S LAW CENTRE	Improving the impact of CLC's evidence base and legal analysis and engagement with other civil society organisations to build alliances to inform policymakers and decision-makers.
11/11/2020	£30,000	£334,356	APPEAL	Supporting women facing prosecution in light of the government's decision to decriminalise non-payment of TV licences, whilst campaigning to ensure that the new system is fair and proportionate for women in poverty.
14/09/2020	£110,000	£444,122	EQUALLY OURS	A programme of work to protect and enhance the rule of law through informing and advising policymakers of the equality and human rights implications of Covid-19, Brexit-related legislation and trade negotiations, the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and the constitution, democracy and rights commission.
21/08/2020	£26,000	£3,224,418	ADVICEUK	Providing support to AdviceUK members in dealing with the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis, including business continuity and fundraising.
17/06/2020	£20,000	£1,390,618	PUBLIC LAW PROJECT	Improving public lawyers' knowledge of the laws governing automated government decision-making and how to challenge unlawful automated decisions in practice.
17/06/2020	£106,661		COMMITTEE ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (CAJ)	Carrying out analysis, monitoring, legal intervention, policy development and advocacy to improve policy makers' understanding and implementation of rights protections in Northern Ireland following exit from the EU and the impacts of the Covid pandemic.
17/06/2020	£511,000		LEGAL AID PRACTITIONERS GROUP (LAPG)	Flexible funding to support LAPG's work to sustain publicly-funded legal advice including through training consultancy and engaging with policy-makers.
17/06/2020	£30,000	£3,555,829	RCJ ADVICE	Examining options for developing a sustainable funding model for FLOWS, alongside engaging key policy stakeholders in relation to the service's long-term development and the Domestic Abuse Bill.
17/06/2020	£94,188	£2,337,689	JUST FOR KIDS LAW	Encouraging the wider adoption of integrating criminal and civil legal casework; and developing a business and future delivery model for JfKL's School Exclusions Hub which provides advice and representation on school exclusions across England and Wales.
17/06/2020	£178,380	£957,833	CLAN CHILDLAW	Supporting Clan Childlaw's work on the implementation of the Care Review in Scotland, and developing a strategy for taking forward wider work on promoting child law as a specialism in its own right.
17/06/2020	£195,000	£451,009	SUFFOLK LAW CENTRE	Testing and developing the Grow Your Own model for building capacity and addressing systemic gaps relating to the supervision of legal casework within the social justice legal sector.
17/06/2020	£49,900		LESTER LLP	Developing a new online tool for supporting compliance and effective practice management in law centres and other not-for-profit specialist advice agencies.
17/06/2020	£42,500	£3,336,449	BINGHAM CENTRE FOR THE RULE OF LAW AT THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW	Creating a long-term programme of policy-relevant Rule of Law research that can be used to inform and drive collaboration with other Legal Education Foundation grantees to maximise impact and debate about the issue.
17/06/2020	£33,000		UNLOCK DEMOCRACY	Working with civil society organisations to build capacity and coordinate responses for promoting good governance, transparent law-making, and the upholding of rights and standards during the transition period of leaving the EU.
17/06/2020	£172,800		HUMAN RIGHTS CONSORTIUM	Supporting civil society organisations to navigate the constitutional and legal implications in Northern Ireland of withdrawal from the EU, with a particular focus on human rights considerations under future EU/UK trade arrangements, the Northern Ireland Protocol, the Future Relationship Agreement and any related legislative or policy changes.
26/05/2020	£298,000	£11,113,651	THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION	Contributing to the Community Justice Fund supporting specialist social welfare advice agencies to deal with the immediate impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and lay the foundations for future renewal.
09/04/2020	£20,000	£4,424,990	LAW CENTRES NETWORK	Providing support to Law Centres in dealing with the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis including business continuity and accessing government support.
08/04/2020	£20,000		LEGAL AID PRACTITIONERS GROUP (LAPG)	Providing support to LAPG members in dealing with the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis, including business continuity and legal aid contracting.
07/04/2020	£20,000	£3,224,418	ADVICEUK	Providing support to AdviceUK members in dealing with the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis, including business continuity and fundraising.
13/03/2020	£78,079	£957,833	CLAN CHILDLAW	A grant to Clan Childlaw to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7. Co-funded by BBC Children in Need.
13/03/2020	£52,464		BHATT MURPHY	A grant to Bhatt Murphy to part-fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
13/03/2020	£81,182	£2,459,810	CENTRAL ENGLAND LAW CENTRE	A grant to Central England Law Centre Ltd to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
13/03/2020	£98,953	£1,658,982	FAMILY RIGHTS GROUP	A grant to Family Rights Group to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7. Co-funded by BBC Children in Need.
13/03/2020	£101,510	£285,089,000	CHILDREN’S LEGAL CENTRE WALES AT UNIVERSITY OF SWANSEA	A grant to Children's Legal Centre Wales to fund one Just First Fellowship as part of cohort 7. Co-funded by BBC Children in Need.
13/03/2020	£73,434		DEIGHTON PIERCE GLYNN	A grant to Deighton Pierce Glynn to part-fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7. Hosted in partnership with Inclusion London.
13/03/2020	£77,407	£883,127	DERBYSHIRE LAW CENTRE	A grant to Derbyshire Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
13/03/2020	£91,789	£552,524	DISABILITY LAW SERVICE	A grant to Disability Law Service to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7. Co-funded by AB Charitable Trust.
13/03/2020	£98,587	£3,028,693	RCJ ADVICE	A grant to RCJ Advice to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7. Co-funded by City Bridge Trust.
13/03/2020	£84,413	£72,560,000	SHELTER	A grant to Shelter to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
13/03/2020	£82,914	£72,560,000	SHELTER	A grant to Shelter to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
13/03/2020	£103,719	£375,925	EALING LAW CENTRE	A grant to Ealing Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
13/03/2020	£88,920	£914,871	GREATER MANCHESTER IMMIGRATION AID UNIT	A grant to Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
13/03/2020	£102,635	£369,955	GREENWICH HOUSING RIGHTS	A grant to Greenwich Housing Rights to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7. Co-funded by City Bridge Trust.
13/03/2020	£118,441	£1,158,294	JOINT COUNCIL FOR THE WELFARE OF IMMIGRANTS	A grant to the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
13/03/2020	£82,770	£3,002,203	CITIZENS ADVICE PLYMOUTH	A grant to Citizens Advice Plymouth to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7. Co-funded by AB Charitable Trust.
13/03/2020	£95,974	£1,198,319	MARY WARD LEGAL CENTRE	A grant to Mary Ward Legal Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7. Co-funded by Linklaters.
13/03/2020	£87,523		MERSEYSIDE LAW CENTRE	A grant to Merseyside Law Centre to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7.
13/03/2020	£117,792	£1,349,940	PUBLIC LAW PROJECT	A grant to The Public Law Project to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7. Co-funded by Allen & Overy LLP.

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Cumulative Grants

Amount	Grantee
£1,982,000	JUSTICE COLLABORATIONS
£881,000	LEGAL AID PRACTITIONERS GROUP (LAPG)
£798,000	THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION
£582,953	FAMILY RIGHTS GROUP
£530,792	PUBLIC LAW PROJECT
£475,000	CHILD POVERTY ACTION GROUP (CPAG)
£422,800	HUMAN RIGHTS CONSORTIUM
£415,000	LAW CENTRES NETWORK
£403,959	CLAN CHILDLAW
£381,182	CENTRAL ENGLAND LAW CENTRE
£328,500	EQUALLY OURS
£314,520	ANTI TRAFFICKING AND LABOUR EXPLOITATION UNIT (ATLEU)
£300,000	THE CONSTITUTION UNIT AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
£300,000	REFUGEE ACTION
£300,000	LIBERTY
£290,000	CITIZENS ADVICE
£285,000	DISABILITY RIGHTS UK
£281,730	SHELTER SCOTLAND
£279,500	SUFFOLK LAW CENTRE
£267,192	JUSTRIGHT SCOTLAND
£261,000	NORFOLK COMMUNITY LAW SERVICE
£250,241	SHELTER
£242,000	GREATER MANCHESTER LAW CENTRE
£238,920	GREATER MANCHESTER IMMIGRATION AID UNIT
£238,600	ACCESS SOCIAL CARE
£230,000	WALES GOVERNANCE CENTRE AT CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
£230,000	SAFELIVES
£210,000	PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTRE
£205,510	CHILDREN’S LEGAL CENTRE WALES AT UNIVERSITY OF SWANSEA
£203,974	MARY WARD LEGAL CENTRE
£200,000	HUMAN RIGHTS CONSORTIUM SCOTLAND
£193,310	JUST FOR KIDS LAW
£189,884	RAPE CRISIS SCOTLAND
£187,789	DISABILITY LAW SERVICE
£181,000	CHILDREN'S LAW CENTRE
£170,000	ADVICE NI
£162,966	HOUSING RIGHTS
£162,514	NORTH EAST LAW CENTRE
£152,394	APPEAL
£150,000	THE IMMIGRATION LAW PRACTITIONERS’ ASSOCIATION (ILPA)
£150,000	RIGHTSNET
£150,000	INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH (IPPR)
£150,000	GRWP LLYWIO CANOLFAN GYFRAITH Y GOGLEDD / NORTH WALES LAW CENTRE STEERING GROUP
£150,000	COUNCIL OF SOMALI ORGANISATIONS
£150,000	CITIZENS ADVICE LIVERPOOL
£140,024	THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
£139,105	BHATT MURPHY
£135,655	ASYLUM SUPPORT APPEALS PROJECT (ASAP)
£134,919	ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ESRC)
£128,587	RCJ ADVICE
£125,000	INSTITUTE OF WELSH AFFAIRS (IWA)
£118,441	JOINT COUNCIL FOR THE WELFARE OF IMMIGRANTS
£118,144	ARTICLE 39
£113,200	SCOTTISH WOMEN'S AID
£111,500	HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM LAW CENTRE
£110,000	MATERNITY ACTION
£106,661	COMMITTEE ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (CAJ)
£104,690	VAUXHALL COMMUNITY LAW & INFORMATION CENTRE
£104,100	SOUTHWARK LAW CENTRE
£103,719	EALING LAW CENTRE
£103,691	LIVERPOOL LAW CLINIC AT UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
£102,635	GREENWICH HOUSING RIGHTS
£100,913	CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S JUSTICE
£100,000	CORAM CHILDREN’S LEGAL CENTRE
£99,000	THE3MILLION
£98,622	BRISTOL LAW CENTRE
£95,000	ASYLUM AID
£94,000	DUNDEE LAW CENTRE
£92,000	SOUTH WEST LONDON LAW CENTRES
£90,762	TOWER HAMLETS LAW CENTRE
£90,000	RELEASE
£88,780	HARROW LAW CENTRE
£87,523	MERSEYSIDE LAW CENTRE
£87,317	CENTRE FOR PUBLIC DATA
£86,460	CHILD RIGHTS AND YOUTH JUSTICE C.I.C.
£85,000	CITIZENS ADVICE BARKING & DAGENHAM
£83,678	REFUGEE RIGHTS HUB AT SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
£82,770	CITIZENS ADVICE PLYMOUTH
£82,159	LUTON LAW CENTRE
£80,283	LAW CENTRE NORTHERN IRELAND
£80,000	WILTSHIRE LAW CENTRE
£80,000	INDEPENDENT WORKERS' UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN (IWGB)
£79,058	SPEAKEASY LAW CENTRE
£78,540	LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST
£77,407	DERBYSHIRE LAW CENTRE
£76,500	OPEN TRUST
£75,567	THE COMMUNITY LAW PARTNERSHIP
£73,434	DEIGHTON PIERCE GLYNN
£70,000	JUST FAIR
£70,000	JUSTICE
£67,026	RIGHT TO REMAIN
£62,584	HOWARD LEAGUE FOR PENAL REFORM
£62,000	MIGRANTS AT WORK LTD
£60,092	HOPKIN MURRAY BESKINE
£52,180	BRITISH AND IRISH LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE (BAILII)
£50,000	LEGAL ACTION GROUP (LAG)
£49,900	LESTER LLP
£46,000	ADVICEUK
£42,500	BINGHAM CENTRE FOR THE RULE OF LAW AT THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW
£33,000	UNLOCK DEMOCRACY
£30,000	THE AIRE CENTRE
£20,000	LAW CENTRES NETWORK (ON BEHALF OF CANOLFAN GYFRAITH Y GOGLEDD)
£20,000	CIVIC POWER FUND