July 2016

Phase 1 Replacing Basic IT Systems

Grant: £29,680
July 29, 2016

Phase 1 - Replacement of basic IT infrastructure which includes implementation of new accounts package and CRM.

Future Advice - Encouraging Innovation Through Effective Management

Grant: £33,000
July 6, 2016

This project is to:

1. facilitate the involvement of NfP advice providers in the LAPG Certificate in Practice Management (CPM) course, including the Future Advice modules, by subsidising or covering the full costs of attending the course
2. commission an independent exercise to capture lessons on how participants put their training into action in the period up to 12 months after the course

Future Advice - Making the Merger Work - Diversifying Income

Grant: £20,000
July 6, 2016

This project is to support the merger of Asylum Aid and the Migrants Resource Centre. The merger will enable the organisations to meet the needs of migrants & refugees and help to ensure organisational sustainability by allowing for the diversification of the organisation’s income beyond the existing sources of Legal Aid and Trust grants.

Future Advice - Increasing access to immigration and asylum advice

Grant: £50,000
July 6, 2016

This Project will significantly improve access to quality, publicly-available OISC-accredited immigration advice for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants with immigration issues.

Future Advice - Public Law Project

Grant: £70,000
July 6, 2016

To support investment in the organisation's infrastructure and to continue work towards long-term sustainability.

Future Advice - Refugee Family Reunion

Grant: £30,000
July 6, 2016

This project is to work more effectively with other agencies, who work in the area of family reunion, to bring about change and improvements in the reception and treatment of refugees.

Future Advice - Practice Management, Leadership and Innovation Development: Phase One

Grant: £22,000
July 6, 2016

The existing LAPG Certificate in Practice Management will be utilized as a platform for ongoing hosting and dissemination of resources and learning arising out of the projects funded by the Future Advice Fund.

All Party Parliamentary Groups

Grant: £33,810
July 6, 2016

A project to provide a Secretariat and support service for the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Public Legal Education (PLE) and the group on Pro Bono, operate a shared resource with the APPG on Pro Bono, and work in tandem with the Civil Justice Council’s Task Group on PLE.

Management of Mediation Online (MoMo) Implementation

Grant: £195,500
July 6, 2016

This project is to upgrade the organisation’s family mediation case-management systems, increasing capacity and efficiency, empowering clients with the online management of paperwork outside office hours or pre-arranged meetings; streamlining processes for admin staff and mediators.

Raising Awareness of Legal Aid (APPG Plus)

Grant: £53,596
July 6, 2016

This grant will fund the secretariat of The APPG on Legal Aid which is a cross‐party group that aims to promote parliamentary and public discussion of legal aid.

The project will have two primary purposes:

1. To maintain the work of the APPG in providing a forum for the discussion and scrutiny of legal aid issues in Parliament. This will raise the profile of legal aid within Parliament by:
   • Maintaining the current cycle of regular APPG meetings and producing and disseminating minutes, briefings and reports from those meetings.
   • Maintaining and improving the APPG website.
2. To extend the reach of the APPG by providing LAPG with the capacity to improve understanding of the legal aid system and the availability of legal aid to MPs and Councillors across England and Wales. This will improve public understanding of and access to legal aid by:
   1. Engaging directly with MPs and Councillors and, crucially, their support and casework staff, to ensure they understand
      • what types of legal problems are covered by legal aid,
      • who qualifies for legal aid and
      • how members of the public access the system including e.g. financial evidence needed at the first interview.
   2. Keeping MPs, Councillors and their support staff aware of important developments in legal aid where those developments affect the issues outlined in (a) above.