The core of Our Strategy 2020-2025 is delivered through three programmes, two of which are delivered primarily through grants. Alongside grants, we offer additional advice and support to grantees where they need it, as well as undertaking direct charitable work ourselves. You can find out more about our three programmes in this section.

We are also in the process of developing our new strategy for 2025-2030, which will launch in summer 2025. This means that the autumn 2024 open grants round, for which applications have now closed, was our last round open to new applications until autumn 2025. In 2025, our Spring grant round will only be open for renewals for organisations currently funded under LEF’s open programmes, whose grants are due to end during 2025. It will be closed to all other applications as we prepare to announce our new strategy. Our Autumn 2025 grant round will then be open to everyone for new applications under our new strategy.

Justice First Fellowship grants

Through the Justice First Fellowship, we fund social welfare legal organisations to employ a trainee solicitor for a two year fully funded training period. We are continuing to run the Fellowship throughout this period of strategic review, with host organisation applications opening in January 2025.