Somerset

North Somerset

Bath And North East Somerset

South Gloucestershire

Bristol City

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

The General Public/mankind

Education/training

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity

refurbishment of offices for a charity which works with disadvantaged minority communities in Bristol

The Clothworkers Foundation

Grant to Avon and Bristol Law Centre

This project will provide legal support to young people who need representation to regularise their legal status. This will increase their access to support services they need, reduce financial hardship and homelessness and improve wellbeing.

BBC Children in Need

Grant to Bristol Law Centre

Supporting a day a week of communication and outreach to emerging community groups and excluded communities to inform them of services and how to secure their legal rights.

Quartet Community Foundation

As requested by the donor towards legal representation for people on low/no incomes.

Grant to Avon & Bristol Law Centre

As requested by the donor towards providing free information and legal advice to people in need.

As requested by the donor towards free legal advice services in Bristol

As requested by the donor to support free legal advice services in Bristol

To support the extension and development of 2 phone advice lines. An extension of the current weekly Employment phone line and the development of a new weekly immigration helpline.

Towards a financial sustainability project for Avon Law Centre.

Legal Expenses Insurance ('LEI'): Access to Justice and Alternative Income Streams

An award from Royal London to Bristol Law Centre for providing free specialist legal advice and representation for people experience significant disadvantage.

As requested by the donor towards legal representation for people on low or no incomes.

As requested by the donor towards appointing a pro bono co-ordinator.

Three Guineas Trust

Salary of a development officer

Student-led disability benefits advice and representation service

student-led welfare benefits legal advice and representation project, and help for other agencies develop similar schemes

Benefits legal advice and representation project

To test the feasibility of extending the successful student volunteer legal advice service for disability benefits to become a fully remote service with North Bristol Advice Centre and Greater Manchester Law Centre.

Extension of student volunteer legal advice service

Towards its legal representation project for benefit appeals.

Legal representation project

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Coronavirus Community Support Fund

A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID86

Access to Justice Foundation

Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant

£15,000 towards legal casework costs for victims of domestic violence and trafficking

A B Charitable Trust

Access to justice through legal representation

A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19

£20,000 towards the running costs of the asylum and immigration team. Avon and Bristol Law Centre provides free legal advice, casework and representation for social welfare.

A grant to Avon and Bristol Law Centre

An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Bristol Law Centre delivers specialist legal advice and representation across housing, employment, community care, discrimination, welfare benefits, immigration and mental health.

A grant to Bristol Law Centre

An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Bristol Law Centre provides specialist legal advice, casework and representation to people living in the city and surrounding counties of Somerset and Gloucestershire

A comprehensive training package will be offered to people from Black and Minority Ethnic communities in a range of areas including, benefits, disability rights, housing advice and other legal advice.

The National Lottery Community Fund

The Bright Project

This is a project by a charity in Bristol. The group will use the funding to recruit and train law student as volunteers to provide legal help and representation for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. This will improve the capacity of the group and meet the increase in demand for its services.

Employment Support Allowance Appeals Pilot

The aim of this new project is to develop a range of initiatives engaging smaller advice providers and linking to neighbouring ASTF partnership applicants, which will improve effectiveness and support for clients within Bristol.

Bristol Advice Network

This project will improve access to advice and legal services for people in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. There are 19 partners. By working collaboratively with advice providers and funders the project will ensure the development of sustainable advice services that meet the needs of the most vulnerable communities, increasing early access to advice and providing a seamless quality service.

Avon and Bristol Law Centre

This project will provide specialist advice on social and welfare rights to migrant women, aiming to improve the their integration into local and mainstream life with improved access to employment, housing, education, welfare, social and health services as well as increasing the confidence and the self-esteem of participants.

Migrant Women's Support Project

A project to support young people aged 16-24 in hardship crisis, the project will include access to a range of specialist and general advice, legal advice, training and support. The scheme will also train peer mentors, including youth advice navigators to help beneficiaries access vital support to reduce poverty, improve health and wellbeing, increase financial capability and improve resilience and self empowerment.