November 2013

Public legal education materials on welfare rights

Grant: £29,000
November 27, 2013

Public legal education materials on welfare rights. Aims to increase the skills and knowledge of people affected by welfare benefit changes and to equip them with the necessary tools to advocate on their own behalves and run their own cases. Materials will be made available online.

Public and Civil Legal Education Gateway

Grant: £136,000
November 27, 2013

Focus on young people from disadvantaged communities; the ultimate goal is to use technology to create a network which links every school and college in the UK with the legal profession (The Law Society, Regional Law Societies, The Bar Council etc).

Programme for Welsh Less Advantaged Young People

Grant: £10,000
November 27, 2013

The purpose of the project is to bring eight young Welsh people from less advantaged backgrounds who are about to undertake their GCSE examinations and those who are in the first year of sixth form to London for a week to learn about the legal profession to stimulate their interest in becoming lawyers. Students are provided with three days’ work-shadowing experience in barristers’ chambers, solicitors’ practices and courts, respectively. There also visit Parliament, to view a moot at Gray’s Inn, and meet with current law students. A soft skills training session from an admissions officer from one of the London universities will speak to the students about university applications, and there will be a mock university interview.

Online Portal for the London Libraries Consortium

Grant: £25,000
November 27, 2013

Cans delivers up-to-date legal information on British and European law. Relevant and updated daily, this is a complete legal resource for anyone with a question about the rights and responsibilities associated with living, working or engaging in life in Britain. This project will create a central and single online portal for the London Libraries Consortium to jointly access this information and will help with training delivered to library authorities to ensure that reference libraries are available to the public in a useful and informative way.

Manchester Schools Programme - Phase 2

Grant: £43,000
November 27, 2013

Phase One was successful and the Foundation has also provided a grant for Phase Two to roll the programme out to more schools and students.

Interactive game for Social Security Tribunal

Grant: £30,000
November 27, 2013

Many vulnerable individuals find themselves needing to make appeals against Social Security decisions, but don’t know how. Most have long-term health problems and will have mental and/or physical illnesses. The appeals process can be daunting – often they’re expected to sit in front of a panel of professionals.

This project will develop an online game to ensure claimants can learn exactly how the tribunal process works in an engaging and interesting way. The project will also offer followup face-to-face informational group workshops. The game will be shared for free through the CAB network and could be shared with other voluntary organisations for free and on subscription to not for-profit companies. The project funding will also cover training packs for volunteers and staff delivering the workshops effectively.

Free Talks

Grant: £70,000
November 27, 2013

Providing practical training to charities and community groups on areas of interest to them. It is also meant to inspire charities and community groups to feel confident with the law and use it in practice. Free Talks are provided in either live recorded and a pre-recorded format. The event includes a presentation to delegates, a practical application of the information either through case studies or case law and a question and answer session. Pre-recorded talks are on the LawWorks website and other agencies are contacted and informed that the videos can be downloaded by their network.

Family law Pro Bono Assistance

Grant: £25,000
November 27, 2013

Provide more straightforward advice on procedural elements of family law. The various stages of an uncontested divorce have been identified as a suitable starting point for this work. It is aimed at individuals, either claimant or respondent, who are engaging with a family law problem that falls within the service’s scope. They will not be eligible for legal aid or any other kind of financial assistance and are therefore expecting to represent themselves, or looking to inform themselves about their options before taking further steps.

E-Training Courses

Grant: £20,000
November 27, 2013

Design and disseminate three innovative e-training courses for UK lawyers. The courses will fulfil two objectives:

• to educate UK lawyers on using new EU Directives which protect basic fair trial rights; and
• to empower UK lawyers to use the expanded remit of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“EU Court”) to interpret EU laws in a way that ensures suspects’ fundamental rights (including in cases involving existing judicial cooperate measures like the European Arrest Warrant extradition system (“EAW”).

E-learning Modules

Grant: £25,000
November 27, 2013

Focussed on women, young people and BAME learners , the project will create an integrated series of e-learning modules for communities on common social welfare law with e-learning tools that are easy and intuitive to use with video and images, on- screen coaches/ narrators, simulations and case- studies. The content will be trialled with community groups.