Recipient organisation
Description
Programme
Priority area
Award date
Amount awarded
Access to Justice Foundation
http://www.atjf.org.uk
A restricted grant of £100,000 towards wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
28-04-2020
£100,000
A restricted grant of £20,000 to Country-of-Origin Information research training for front line case workers in the UK. Asylos carries out case-specific research for asylum cases, and gathers data about the use and impact of evidence in asylum courts. This...(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Migrants and refugees
09-01-2020
£20,000
Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID
http://www.biduk.org
£25,000 towards core costs. Bail for Immigration Detainees challenges immigration detention in the UK. It provides legal advice and representation to migrants detained in removal centres and prisons, and prepares research and policy briefs to influence policy.
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
03-07-2018
£25,000
Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID
http://www.biduk.org
An unrestricted grant of £25,000. Bail for Immigration Detainees challenges immigration detention in the UK. It provides legal advice and representation to migrants detained in removal centres and prisons, and prepares research and policy briefs to influence policy.
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
02-07-2019
£25,000
Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID
http://www.biduk.org
A restricted grant of £17,000 towards management salaries and associated core costs. Bail for Immigration Detainees challenges immigration detention in the UK. It provides legal advice and representation to migrants detained in removal centres and prisons, and prepares research and...(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
15-10-2019
£17,000
£15,000 towards polls to support Liberty campaign on indefinite detention. This research by Britain Thinks is intended to generate insights on public opinion on immigration detention and test messages through polling.
Special Initiatives
Migrants and refugees
01-03-2018
£15,000
A restricted grant of £30,000 towards Kids in Need of Defense UK (this grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). The Kids project is a collaboration led by Central England Law Centre. It aims to help...(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
02-07-2019
£30,000
£45,000 over 3 years (£15,000 pa) towards a Solicitor post. Fylde Coast Advice & Legal Centre in Blackpool seeks to provide social welfare legal advice for people on low incomes and to disadvantaged groups.
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
24-04-2018
£45,000
A restricted grant of £20,000 to Migration Exchange, towards the leadership development programme for the migration sector (this grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 2 years). The programme seeks to address the gap in leadership by migrants...(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Migrants and refugees
02-07-2019
£20,000
Greater Manchester Law Centre
http://www.gmlaw.org.uk
An unrestricted grant of £45,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Greater Manchester Law Centre provides face-to-face legal advice and representation in housing and welfare benefits, and campaigns for free access to justice.
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
02-07-2019
£45,000
A restricted grant of £30,000 towards the Data Hub Project. This project will work to improve data tools to enable better use of polling and using data to influence messaging strategies, and sharing these tools and expertise within the migration sector....(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Migrants and refugees
28-04-2020
£30,000
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. The IMiX project works to strengthen communication capacity in the refugee and migration sector to inform the public narrative, by providing 1-1 support and delivering training courses and media work.
Special Initiatives
Migrants and refugees
30-04-2019
£20,000
£15,000 towards advice and policy work in relation to Grenfell Tower fire. Inquest provides expertise on state related deaths and their investigation to bereaved people, lawyers, advice and support agencies, the media and parliamentarians. It provides specialist advice and support...(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
04-07-2017
£15,000
Justice Collaboration
£125k towards the justice initiative (this grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). This pooled fund aims to create more capacity for delivery of free immigraton advice through casework/ service delivery and support a coordinated approach...(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
02-07-2019
£125,000
A restricted grant of £30,000 towards the Law Centre in a Box project. This project will develop a package of resources and training to support and strengthen Law Centres across the country.
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
23-04-2020
£30,000
A restricted grant of £250,000 over 2 years (£125,000, £125,000) towards the costs of six Justice First Fellows (based at Just for Kids Law, Howard League for Penal Reform, Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre, Harrow Law Centre, Norfolk Community Law...(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
30-04-2019
£250,000
A restricted grant of £250,000 over 2 years (£125,000; £125,000) towards the costs of four Justice First Fellows (based at Merseyside Law Centre, Plymouth Citizens Advice, Central England Law Centre and Disability Law Service) and associated costs of the support...(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
28-04-2020
£125,000
£50,000 over 2 years (£25,000; £25,000) towards core costs. Merseyside Law Centre provides legal advice and assistance to welfare benefits and housing for migrants and those excluded as a result of unemployment. They also provide representation in tribunals.
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
03-07-2018
£50,000
North Kensington Law Centre
http://www.nklc.co.uk
£50,000 towards legal advice for communities affected by Grenfell Tower fire. North Kensington Law Centre provides information, advice, casework and representation on employment, housing, immigration & asylum and welfare benefits.
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
04-07-2017
£50,000
A restricted grant of £25,000 towards the costs of two posts (a Director and an Administrator) and related core costs to establish a legal advice clinic (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 2 years). This new...(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
02-07-2019
£25,000
A restricted grant of £25,000 towards the Independent Commission on how prison sentences work for the most serious crimes. This Independent Commission will look at how prison sentences work for the most serious of crimes, and at the experiences of...(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Criminal justice and penal reform
28-04-2020
£25,000
A restricted grant of £30,000 towards a Research and Policy Fellow (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 2 years, subject to annual trustee approval). The Research and Policy Fellow post will support PLP's work to promote...(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
23-04-2020
£30,000
A restricted grant of £100,000 towards the COVID-19 Respond and Adapt programme. A pooled fund to support the immigration sector in its response to COVID19
Special Initiatives
Migrants and refugees
28-04-2020
£100,000
A restricted grant of £30,000 towards the Frontline Immigration Advice Project (this grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). The project provides service delivery organisations with immigration advice training to be OISC (Office of Immigration Services Commissioner) registered....(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Migrants and refugees
29-01-2019
£30,000
£50,000 towards the costs of establishing a capacity building organisation to support UK community sponsorship of refugees. This grant is to enable Social Finance and Good Faith Partnership to establish a new organisation and advisory group to take forward the...(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Migrants and refugees
05-09-2017
£50,000
An unrestricted grant of £30,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Southwark Law Centre provides free legal advice, casework & representation in housing, employment and asylum/immigration for people in Southwark, and is developing legal services in Lewisham....(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
29-01-2019
£30,000
An unrestricted grant of £30,000 (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years, subject to annual trustee approval). Southwark Law Centre provides free high quality specialist immigration advice, and training to protect the Human Rights of...(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
14-01-2020
£30,000
An unrestricted grant of £30,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Southwark Law Centre provides free legal advice, casework & representation in housing, employment and asylum/immigration for people in Southwark, and is developing legal services in Lewisham....(hover for more)
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
29-01-2019
£30,000
The Bingham Centre for the Rule of law
http://www.binghamcentre.biicl.org
A restricted grant of £20,000 towards the Bingham Centre's Rule of Law Monitoring Project. This project intends to provide independent monitoring and scrutiny of new bills and legislation against internationally agreed Rule of Law standards.
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
28-04-2020
£20,000
£10,000 towards a report into the current costs of immigration detention and the financial impact of a 28 day time limit.
Special Initiatives
Human rights, particularly access to justice
03-12-2018
£10,000
