ANNUAL REVIEW 2016 Contents 2016 Chief Executive’s Objectives Objective 1 Objective 2 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 Geographical Financial People in numbers introduction overview spread of grants summary
3 2016 in numbers 15 OBJECTIVE 2 29 OBJECTIVE 4 4 Chief Executive’s 17 Grants 2016 31 OBJECTIVE 5 introduction 20 Case study 33 Geographical 5 TLEF Just for Kids spread of grants Co-funders Law/Youth Justice Legal Centre 34 Financial 6 Objectives summary overview 24 OBJECTIVE 3 35 People 7 OBJECTIVE 1 26 Grants 2016 9 Grants 2016 27 Case study Justice First 13 Case study Fellowship Maternity Action
CONTENTS Te Legal Education Foundation Annual Review 2016 2 Contents 2016 Chief Executive’s Objectives Objective 1 Objective 2 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 Geographical Financial People in numbers introduction overview spread of grants summary
JUSTICE FIRST 2016 FELLOWS APPOINTED 9 GRANTS GRANTS WITH FUNDING A TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS FOCUS 15 26 APPLICATIONS 79 184
TOTAL AMOUNT AWARDED
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Tis year, the In 2016, we made a total of 79 grants to the Te Foundation has already selected hosts and value of £4,250,000. Tis annual review secured co-funding for a further 13 Fellows in Foundation passed a gives information on all these grants, as well 2016-17 including, for the frst time, two pupil signifcant milestone, as case studies that set out in more depth barrister Fellows, who will focus on family law. how the Foundation has been supporting Pathways to Law, delivered by the Sutton distributing our frst the feld. We also began a strategy review to Trust, is our longest standing programme, refect on areas of need, on what is working, £10m since making the dating back to 2007 under the Foundation’s and on how we can best promote the role of previous incarnation as Te College of Law. transition from College legal education in achieving our vision and Tis year, the Governors have continued to mission. In many cases, this means as well as of Law to Te Legal Education underpin the programme, and we will be awarding grants, we fnd ways to harness our looking carefully over the coming year at the Foundation in 2012. Tis represents wider resources and networks to help funded impact of the scheme in widening access to new and timely support for organisations achieve their objectives. Te the legal profession. organisations helping people to strategy review will report to our Governors in February 2017, the mid-point of the We have continued to work with other funders understand and use the law. It has fve-year plan, and will likely make around our strategic objectives. As a specialist been achieved through 185 grants recommendations for honing our funder, collaboration is an important part of programmes and approach further. our ethos, and last year saw us attract £1m across three programmes and two from other grant-making organisations to One of our proudest initiatives is the Justice distribute via partnership programmes. Te crosscutting objectives adopted by First Fellowship, which supports the next Governors see this as important recognition generation of social justice lawyers. Since its our Governors at the end of 2014. of the Foundation’s expertise, and we will launch in 2014, the scheme has gone from continue to work with other funding bodies in strength to strength, building the number of open and constructive ways in future years. Fellows and attracting new co-funders. Nine Fellows began work in January 2015, taking to 18, the total number now in place in specialist legal advice agencies and law frms across all four countries of the UK. 2016: A LANDMARK YEAR FOR THE
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We also continue to underpin our work with Te Foundation also welcomed Jake Lee to our We also turned our attention to how our good evidence. Tis year, we commissioned team as Director of Legal Strategy, boosting work will be afected by the referendum research aimed at creating new tools for capacity to develop thoughtful programmes vote to leave the European Union. Te large TLEF objectively assessing the efectiveness of and partnerships. number of UK laws with a basis in EU law work done by the social welfare sector. We means major areas of legislation addressed In 2015, the Foundation partnered with the CO-FUNDERS will use these tools to underpin our decision- by the Foundation’s grantees, including Baring Foundation and its Strengthening making and to ensure we are funding projects equalities, human rights, employment, the Voluntary Sector grants programme and organisations which make a provable public services, children, immigration, Allen & Overy LLP in a collaboration that will support non- diference to people’s lives. asylum and care, will be afected. Our legal voluntary organisations to use the law Baring Foundation response will be evidence-led as we seek to We have also expanded our work looking at and human rights-based approaches. Tis support civil society organisations to engage Barrow Cadbury Trust the role and value of technology in addressing refects a sharp focus for the Foundation in constructively with the legislative processes legal needs, publishing our annual review of expanding the role of the law as a tool to solve Burgess Salmon LLP to ensure individuals and organisations with key technical developments in legal services problems, acknowledging that legal need is legal needs remain protected. for people on low incomes, and launching a often enmeshed in a range of other issues that City Bridge Trust new website looking at law, technology and people face and that addressing this is vital if Te momentous change heralded by leaving Comic Relief access to justice www.law-tech-a2j.org they are to make progress. the EU comes against the backdrop of reductions in public spending, increased Council of the Inns of Court We have also continued to collaborate need, and continued pressure on public with our partners Unbound Philanthropy DAC Beachcroft LLP services. Recession, wider austerity and Comic Relief on the Future Advice and welfare reform have all led to an grants programme. Tis supports advice Esmée Fairbairn Foundation intensifcation of problems and crisis among organisations to fnd ways of putting their vulnerable groups. Tis brings into ever Eversheds LLP organisations on a more sustainable footing. starker relief the importance of building Over the past four years, the programme has Herbert Smith Freehills LLP knowledge and legal capability among the funded a range of experiments, including UK population, and of ensuring that those Hogan Lovells LLP supporting the frst eforts of law centres to delivering legal services are equipped to do explore fee-charging, the development of so efectively. Osborne Clarke LLP systems-thinking approaches, embedding legal advice in non-legal settings, and If a reminder were needed, events Shakespeare Martineau LLP expanding public legal education. In 2015, this year reinforce the importance of Unbound Philanthropy the partners commissioned an independent constant engagement by the public and review of the programme that will draw out by organisations working in the public lessons and inform a next phase. A strong interest to use the law to its fullest extent theme will be to promote the role of legal to protect the most vulnerable and hold advice in delivering positive health outcomes. the most powerful to account. Our eforts will continue, with huge thanks to the organisations, to the Governors, and to the staf at the Foundation for their energy and hard work.
Left Under the Future Advice programme, the Foundation supports the annual Legal Voice conference, which attracts lawyers and other MATTHEW SMERDON leading fgures from the access to justice sector CHIEF EXECUTIVE Te Legal Education Foundation Annual Review 2016 5 Contents 2016 Chief Executive’s Objectives Objective 1 Objective 2 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 Geographical Financial People in numbers introduction overview spread of grants summary
Te scale of the Foundation’s work across all of its objectives has increased, since it frst reported in 2014. Integral to our three key aims of increasing public legal understanding (Objective 1), improving legal education and training (Objective 2), and increasing access to employment within the legal profession (Objective 3), are two additional crosscutting objectives, developing strong research evidence (Objective 4), and maximising the use of technology (Objective 5).
£2m OBJECTIVE 1 OBJECTIVE 2 OBJECTIVE 3 To increase public To advance high quality thinking, To increase access to employment understanding of the training and practice in legal in the legal profession and, in law and the capability education and legal services so as particular, to advance social to use it to ensure legal needs are met mobility and diversity £1.5m
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OBJECTIVE 4 To develop a robust evidence base of needs in each of the areas above and evidence of efective ways of meeting these needs OBJECTIVE 5 To understand the role that information technology can play in achieving each of the other objectives
OBJECTIVES OVERVIEW
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TO INCREASE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW AND THE CAPABILITY TO USE IT 1 Te Legal Education Foundation Annual Review 2016 7 Contents 2016 Chief Executive’s Objectives Objective 1 Objective 2 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 Geographical Financial People in numbers introduction overview spread of grants summary
We recognise that having the capability to use In 2015-16, TLEF continued to support projects Our aim is to support people Grants by cluster of all ages to build broader legal knowledge inevitably involves tackling that aim to improve the legal understanding of how people interact with the legal system and litigants-in-person, a group that may be Legal understanding legal knowledge and capability. how the system can, in turn, become more considered particularly vulnerable in the of young people Helping people recognise accessible, efcient and efective. context of being able to secure just outcomes. £581,000 Te Foundation is committed to a vision of the A signifcant development this year has been when a problem has a law and legal education as a tool for securing a Legal understanding of users the emergence of clusters of related grants range of positive outcomes for individuals and of advice organisations/vulnerable law-related solution and have around particular themes and population groups. As such, in 2015-16 TLEF has awarded groups sub-groups, as our portfolio of funded the confdence to seek legal a number of grants to projects that aim to £700,000 projects expands. help, means that chances to improve the legal capability of voluntary Legal understanding of staf in use the law for their beneft One such cluster is around improving the legal organisations, in order that they might better voluntary sector/community are not missed. capability of children and young people. As a understand and use the law to deliver their groups/local government Foundation, we are committed to bringing charitable objectives and further the interests £496,000 about a generational shift in the way people of their clients. understand and use the law. To this end, we Legal understanding have funded a range of projects working with of general public young people, both in and outside of formal £11,000 education. We are keen to develop this work, Related research with a focus on gathering evidence of best £125,000 practice and scaling models that work.
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BINGHAM CITIZENSHIP Foundation’s PLE quality CORAM INDEPENDENT YOUTH ACCESS CENTRE FOR THE FOUNDATION mark to assess the content of CHILDREN’S LEGAL PARENTAL SPECIAL RULE OF LAW their materials against a set of CENTRE EDUCATION ADVICE criteria approved by the Law £195,485 £46,461 Society and the Bar Council. Make Our Rights Reality £7,000 Public legal education in £120,000 £35,000 programme schools in Northern Ireland School curriculum training Legal rights of migrant Post-16 pilot project Pioneering a major national £68,440 children and young people Producing 500 school training Generating a measurable Public legal education in Increasing public programme to inspire packs for the law and justice improvement in young schools in Wales Developing innovative understanding of how special disadvantaged young people component of the citizenship people in Northern Ireland’s training and capacity-building education needs (SEN) law to participate in public legal Giving a better understanding curriculum. understanding of the law interventions aimed at applies to young people and education and related social of the current levels of PLE and their capability to use professionals, carers and enabling young people (and activities to increase legal in schools; increasing the it by increasing the number young people, to improve the those who support them) to capability. number of young people from of them from economically implementation of children use the law to get the right economically disadvantaged disadvantaged areas and and young people’s rights. educational support. Integrated Colleges taking part areas taking part in the in the Citizenship Foundation’s Magistrates’ Court and Bar FULLY FOCUSED Bar Mock Trial, and its Lawyers Mock Trial Competitions, PRODUCTIONS £33,000 in Schools programme. and Lawyers in Schools Evaluation and scoping programmes; promoting the project Citizenship Foundation’s Law £51,250 £21,150 in Schools website to schools Researching and developing Young people, housing, IT solutions that will expand Quality public legal and legal professionals; homelessness and the law education resources ensuring all resources and flm project access to public legal programmes provided are education in order to increase Encouraging public legal tailored to Welsh schools and Producing two short flms understanding of SEN law, education (PLE) providers to life in Wales. promoting an understanding increase public capability to apply for the Citizenship of legal rights to young use it, and facilitate children people, including accessing and young people with SEN to advice, having confdence obtain their legal entitlements. to challenge, knowing and using their rights efectively in order to tackle issues afecting homelessness and problems GRANTS with the private/social 2016 housing sector.
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ADVISING LONDON COVENTRY LAW JUST LEGAL AID NATIONAL FAMILY PRISONERS’ CENTRE PRACTITIONERS MEDIATION ADVICE SERVICE £18,194 £20,000 GROUP Digital community legal £69,544 Just: Transcriptions £10,000 £52,000 advice triage platform for Rights in Practice Public £10,000 Management of Mediation Legal education for prisoners Londoners Using technology to improve Legal Education Project Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Online (MoMO) access to justice by making awards 2016 Delivering legal education Creating a digital solution Providing community care- transcriptions free/cheap and Establishing concept and sessions in prisons, training for resolving straightforward related public legal education, quick to access. Sponsoring the creation of implementing plan for peer advisers on the client queries more quickly, rooted in and informed an award for Access to Justice upgrades to the family framework and application to free up resources for more by casework practice; and LEGAL ACTION through IT, to encourage mediation case-management of prison law, so they can complex cases. maximising opportunities to GROUP and recognise innovation in systems. take on simple legal issues identify and address systemic the delivery of legal advice to themselves and provide BRIGHTON issues which have potential to people on low incomes. PERSONAL accurate information and HOUSING TRUST beneft a whole community or £36,500 SUPPORT UNIT signposting. interest group. Low Commission MATERNITY ACTION REFUGEE ACTION £10,000 CYNGOR AR Funding the third and £50,000 BHT pro bono BOPETH CYLCH fnal phase of the Low Litigants in person support Commission, to enable £57,300 £148,638 Supporting a collaborative CONWY DISTRICT the secretariat to continue Investing in legal education clinical law project between CITIZENS ADVICE Legal capability of pregnant Asylum Guides Project infuencing work and produce women at work support and knowledge Brighton Housing Trust and BUREAU an evaluation report. management systems, Empowering people claiming University of Sussex law Producing four short videos and fully establishing IT asylum in north-west England department. guiding pregnant women and systems to support PSU’s to engage meaningfully with £7,363 new mothers through the rapidly expanding service. the asylum process, via highly- Immigration and Asylum processes they need to follow Equipping volunteers to skilled volunteer asylum Partnership Project to resolve disputes about provide help to litigants in guides, based in organisations Providing immigration and management of sickness at person, by improving their trusted by the client group, asylum law advice across work and scoping use of apps understanding of the law and who provide asylum- North Wales, via video to deliver maternity rights the capability to use it. seekers with a legal literacy conferencing at Citizens information. programme. Advice ofces, delivered by Jackson Canter lawyers based in its ofces in Liverpool and Manchester.
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RELATE RELEASE THE ADVOCATES FOR AIRE CENTRE BARING TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION £78,038 £82,684 PROJECT DEVELOPMENT £62,021 Digital justice: guided online Guide for people European rights education £200,000 pathways to afordable representing themselves £49,500 £21,250 project Use of law by voluntary family dispute resolution in court organisations Family Court Reporting Training for advocacy Raising awareness of the Working to design a Creating a guide for people Watch and Guidance NGOs in defamation law Note Series principles, mechanisms, and Providing funds for re-granting measurement framework who have to represent Providing advocacy and operation of the European by the Baring Foundation and the data collection themselves at court Monitoring ofcial campaigning NGOs with justice system and how this under the frst round of its methods appropriate to the especially in relation to publication/dissemination, free online training in English interacts with domestic law. Strengthening the Voluntary new online Family Dispute drug possession ofences. professional reporting defamation law, so they can Developing understanding Sector programme. Te focus Resolution programme. Te guide will be supported and media coverage of check their publications for for, and appreciation of, the chosen for the new fve-year by an app and short family courts (Family Court defamation risks, allowing importance of free movement programme is building on a flms, which will improve Reporting Watch); and them to save paid-for and of people and citizenship belief that better use of the and enhance people’s producing guidance for pro bono legal services for rights in Europe. law presents opportunities for legal capability. parents and professionals. specifc, more technical voluntary sector organisations points. to enhance their ability to pursue their charitable purpose and will help to £19,600 amplify the law’s everyday Free online legal health relevance by situating it check self-assessment for within a wider framework of NGOs advocacy and social change. Providing NGOs with a free, easy-to-use online tool to BATES WELLS assess their legal needs, BRAITHWAITE resulting in a report that they can work through with lawyers over time, whether £71,500 on a fee-paying or pro bono BWB Get Legal basis. Helping NGOs to use Developing the BWB Get lawyers more efectively and Legal service, using legal efciently, being clear about knowledge management exactly what they need. software to provide bespoke legal and policy documents.
GRANTS 2016 GRANTS 2016 LEGAL UNDERSTANDING OF USERS OF ADVICE LEGAL UNDERSTANDING OF STAFF IN VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS/VULNERABLE GROUPS SECTOR/COMMUNITY GROUPS/LOCAL GOVERNMENT 11 Contents 2016 Chief Executive’s Objectives Objective 1 Objective 2 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 Geographical Financial People in numbers introduction overview spread of grants summary
PASCOE CENTRE ON NATIONAL SMALL CHARITIES GLOBAL DIALOGUE PLEASENCE MIGRATION, COUNCIL FOR COALITION LIMITED POLICY AND VOLUNTARY SOCIETY (COMPAS), ORGANISATIONS £10,890 UNIVERSITY OF (NCVO) £50,460 £124,505 Community portal Rightsinfo OXFORD Standardised inventory of £12,950 Providing a scalable and Creating an innovative legal capability sustainable digital solution to series of online resources Tree grants (of £64,505, £58,000 Voluntary sector legal the problem of small charities which will make human information audit £45,000 and £15,000) Online tool to assess accessing legal support. rights law more accessible eligibility of destitute families for developing valid and Creating a record of areas Providing a way for the legal to the public. reliable standardised Developing an interactive and topics where voluntary support sector to better instruments to measure online tool, which will allow sector organisations require connect with small charities attitudinal and confdence- advisors and service-providers legal information and auditing in a cost-efective and related aspects of legal in the voluntary and public where such information collaborative way. capability. Te measures sectors to assess the eligibility currently exists and where developed will provide of destitute migrant children the gaps fall, covering the quantitative assessment of and families for local authority full lifecycle of a voluntary legal capability, which can support under section 17 of organisation, from set up, to be repeated over time and the Children Act, where they running the organisation, to replicated in future research. lack expert knowledge of that winding up. area of law.
GRANTS 2016 GRANTS 2016 GRANTS 2016 LEGAL UNDERSTANDING OF STAFF IN VOLUNTARY LEGAL UNDERSTANDING RELATED SECTOR/COMMUNITY GROUPS/LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF GENERAL PUBLIC RESEARCH 12 Contents 2016 Chief Executive’s Objectives Objective 1 Objective 2 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 Geographical Financial People in numbers introduction overview spread of grants summary
In October 2015, the Foundation awarded a grant of £57,300 over 10 months to the charity Maternity Action to develop four short videos aimed at providing pregnant women and new mothers on low incomes with the knowledge they need to secure their rights. Tis is an example of the kind of innovative work we are funding under Objective 1, and also illustrates how we seek to work collaboratively with grantees. Te problem In July 2015, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills released the frst fndings of their research into pregnancy and maternity-related discrimination at work. Researchers conducted interviews with 3,254 mothers and 3,034 employers. Te research found that in 2015, 54,000 women lost their job as a result of pregnancy discrimination; 100,000 women experienced harassment; and 53,000 were discouraged from attending antenatal appointments by their employer. CASE STUDY MATERNITY
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Te Foundation was keen to address the legal How the problem is Tis questionnaire is based on the type of capability of pregnant women, with the aim screening tools used in public health to of helping them to gain the procedural and being addressed measure complex concepts like ‘wellbeing’. substantive knowledge they need to identify Maternity Action already produces Professor Pleasence has agreed to act as an and challenge discrimination in the workplace. information sheets and runs an advice line for advisor on the evaluation, and is being paid by Te Foundation’s chief executive approached pregnant women experiencing discrimination. the Foundation to provide this support. Maternity Action, which cited additional However, the charity was concerned that the Maternity Action has approached the charity research from the Equal Opportunities most vulnerable pregnant women, low paid that owns the most popular maternity app Commission in 2005, demonstrating that workers and those with low levels of literacy in the UK - Baby Buddy. Te Baby Buddy at least 45 per cent of all women and new and/or English as a foreign language, were app sends notifcations to women, with mothers at work experience some form of excluded from accessing this advice. information tailored to the stage of pregnancy discrimination. Pregnancy discrimination that they have reached. Maternity Action has has been found to generate severe negative Maternity Action proposed developing videos secured interest from Baby Buddy in hosting consequences, including poor health specifcally addressing the needs of pregnant its videos and other content about maternity outcomes for mothers and babies, reduced women on low incomes, targeting those who rights, which will be disseminated to women income, loss of job, and damage to career were particularly at risk of discrimination. at the relevant stage of their pregnancy. progression. Te EOC research found that few Tese videos would be hosted on its website. Maternity Action hopes to use the evidence women take any action to assert their rights: Te evidence of need and potential beneft from the evaluation it is conducting with 80 per cent of those losing their jobs due to was clear, and Governors awarded Maternity Professor Pleasence’s guidance to convince pregnancy discrimination take no action at all; Action funding for the project. other websites to host the resources. and only 8 per cent take formal action (such One of the requirements of receiving a grant as invoking grievance procedures, seeking was that Maternity Action should rigorously advice, or taking employers to tribunal). evaluate the impact of these resources on women’s knowledge, skills and psychological readiness to act. After working with Maternity Action on the design of its evaluation, the Foundation paired Maternity Action with another grantee, Professor Pascoe Pleasence, who is developing a standardised tool to measure legal capability.
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OBJECTIVE
TO ADVANCE HIGH QUALITY THINKING, TRAINING AND PRACTICE IN LEGAL EDUCATION AND LEGAL SERVICES SO AS TO ENSURE LEGAL NEEDS ARE MET 2 Te Legal Education Foundation Annual Review 2016 15 Contents 2016 Chief Executive’s Objectives Objective 1 Objective 2 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 Geographical Financial People in numbers introduction overview spread of grants summary
We have discussed with grantees the challenge Future Advice has funded a range of Our aim is to support work Grants by cluster that results in legal service of measuring the efcacy of this training and experiments looking at how organisations can have begun work to commission research on develop sustainable sources of income for legal Legal knowledge and skills providers being better able to methods and approaches for tracking the services, deliver services in new ways, and of people working in the law meet legal needs in efective, impact of training on legal services staf and on generally carve out the time and space needed £585,000 clients and benefciaries. Alongside the delivery to develop responses to the hugely challenging sustainable ways and at scale. of practical training, grants have helped to bring environment for services, characterised by the Efective and sustainable Tis year, we have supported service providers together to share experience rise in need and the reduction in resources to legal services – Future Advice and good practice which the Foundation sees meet this need. £247,000 professional, academic and as hugely important and valuable. clinical legal education covering Tis year, the Foundation has commissioned an Legal knowledge and As well as developing legal skills and knowledge, independent researcher to capture lessons from skills of law students a range of areas of law. work under this objective also looks at the wider the programme and refect on its operation. £57,000 organisational development resources that Findings will be published next year. Related research social welfare legal organisations need in order £31,000 to be sustainable and efective. Tis work largely takes place under the banner of the Future Advice programme (see page 18). Te Foundation coordinates this programme in collaboration with the Baring Foundation, Comic Relief, and Unbound Philanthropy.
AVERAGE GRANT 24GRANTS £38,300 TOTAL VALUE
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ACCESS TO JUSTICE ASYLUM AID ASYLUM SUPPORT INQUEST LAW CENTRES LAWYERS IN FOUNDATION APPEALS PROJECT NETWORK CHARITIES (LINC) £96,898 (ASAP) £45,760 £47,199 Statelessness training and Article 2 and inquests £21,000 £40,000 Litigants in person website awareness project £70,040 National Law Centres’ IT LINC knowledge bank Educating lawyers on the Upgrade Project - Stage 1 and website Raising awareness of the Quality advice and Developing an online representation applicability of Article 2 (Right community of individual statelessness determination to Life) to a much broader Auditing Law Centres’ ICT Developing and improving and organisations providing procedure for legal Using technology to range of cases which will equipment and software, as the LINC website as a digital services to litigants in person, in representatives, community disseminate expertise and result in: more cases achieving a frst stage to preparing a resource for in-house charity order to capture and promote organisations, and members knowledge of education of far-reaching inquests, national plan for standard lawyers, so that subject best practice and foster links of the public, through asylum support law, while including in front of a jury; compatible software to experts can share practical between providers. Te website training, thereby developing also ensuring the quality of increased access to legal aid improve efciency. guidance and information on will be operated by Litigants in the capacity of agencies and free legal representation at funding; more likelihood of key areas of law for charities. Person Support Strategy. of legal representatives to the Asylum Support Tribunal. policy recommendations to ensure the right types of prevent further deaths. £30,210 LEGAL ACTION cases, with the right evidence, Law Centre training CENTRE FOR programme 2016 GROUP £2,300 apply under the procedure. CRIMINAL APPEALS JUST FOR KIDS LAW Self-Representation Funding the second year of a Network Conference £16,760 £48,570 three-year project to establish Funding to enable the CEO £5,600 a self-fnancing and ongoing Business planning Social Finance and Youth of the Litigants in Person Problem solving advocacy in training programme for Law the criminal justice system Justice Legal Centre Reviewing LAG’s working Support Strategy to attend the Centres and other specialist practices and formulating Self-Representation Litigation Scoping the use of criminal Supporting Social Finance to legal organisations. a digital strategy, as stage Network conference in appeals as a tool for moving work with YJLC to develop the one in a project to secure its Chicago, USA. UK criminal practitioners operating and fnancial model future as a social enterprise. towards problem-solving for growth, identify the funding advocacy, to achieve requirement and scope out a progressive social change for plan to raise the grant funding individuals, communities and or investment needed. society at large. £29,221 GRANTS Funding for additional support through the period of 2016 preparing the business plan.
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LASA CHARITY UK NATIONAL PRO ACCESS TO JUSTICE Key areas covered are NORTHERN UNIVERSITY BONO CENTRE FOUNDATION family, employment and REFUGEE CENTRE COLLEGE LONDON immigration law, where CENTRE FOR £85,780 experience indicates demand ACCESS TO JUSTICE Rightsnet online peer £25,000 £35,195 for private work. £10,000 support project Legal charity incubator Pro bono costs orders in the Migration Legal Advice advice sector LEGAL ADVICE Training £46,479 Supporting UK legal Providing fve free desks at the practitioners and advice Increasing the amount of pro CENTRE Developing a two-year Guttmann Health-Justice centre for one year to early- Partnership project providers to access casework stage legal organisations. bono costs orders awarded (UNIVERSITY project establishing a support available through within the advice sector. Up HOUSE) targeted recruitment, Funding the recruitment of the Rightsnet online adviser to fve agencies will join a pilot training and professional a researcher to measure the discussion forums, thereby scheme whereby they will be £83,746 development programme health outcomes of advice enabling them to work more funded to take on additional to support migrants and delivered via the new health- efectively in responding to case work which would be Legal expenses insurance people from minority ethnic project justice partnership between client need. suitable for requesting pro backgrounds into the legal UCL Centre for Access to bono costs. Increasing knowledge of advice profession. MLAT Justice and the Guttmann LEGAL GEEK legal expenses insurance will test a new approach: a Health and Wellbeing Centre AVON AND among advice organisations programme which provides in Stratford, east London, BRISTOL LAW and engaging with key the skills, individual support which provides onsite free £20,000 CENTRE stakeholders and the and professional expertise legal advice by supervised law Law for Good platform insurance industry to increase required to work in the feld students to patients through of OISC-accredited migrant Connecting expert legal expenses insurance GP social prescription advice. technologists who want to £71,454 coverage, and public referrals or as drop-in clients. donate their time to charities South West Law Centres awareness. Community Interest ofering legal advice who are Company - Ethical Law in need of technical support and advice. Tere is a lack of Generating a sustainable technology and IT resource source of income for Avon in legal advice charities, and Bristol Law Centre, meaning fewer people have Gloucester Law Centre and access to legal support. Wiltshire Law Centre, by earning private fees which are split between the solicitor and Ethical Law, with the company’s profts donated to the law centres.
GRANTS 2016 GRANTS 2016 LEGAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE LEGAL OF PEOPLE WORKING IN THE LAW SERVICE – FUTURE ADVICE Te Legal Education Foundation Annual Review 2016 18 Contents 2016 Chief Executive’s Objectives Objective 1 Objective 2 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 Geographical Financial People in numbers introduction overview spread of grants summary
CITY UNIVERSITY JUSTICE PUBLIC LAW PROJECT £25,000 £20,000 StartEd project Justice Student Network £30,470 Models for public law Providing law students with Developing the Justice specialist support with new skills and increased Student Human Rights university law clinics commercial awareness, to Network microsite to increase equip them for employment. engagement with the student Applying PLP’s expertise Te project brings together community. It is multi-faceted and experience in project leading law frms, fast-growth in its objectives, and equips development, practical small business and LPC law students with a practical training, specialist support students, so that students understanding of how lawyers and the conduct of casework can learn about issues faced can work to strengthen the to the development of by new businesses and justice system and the rights potential joint working entrepreneurs. of individuals. approaches with clinics
FREE REPRESENTATION UNIT £12,000 E-learning and digital resources Funding for the appointment of a consultant to work with FRU to design and cost an IT strategy.
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In May 2014, the Foundation awarded a grant of £86,400 over two years to Just for Kids Law to establish the Youth Justice Legal Centre. However, our support did not stop there. In line with our philosophy of working collaboratively with organisations as their projects evolve, this was followed in 2016 by further grants of £48,570 and £29,221. Tese additional sums were to help develop the centre further and, in particular, to provide expert consultancy to support its eforts to become self- fnancing in future.
Left Youth Justice Legal Centre director Kate Aubrey-Johnson with Baroness Hale of Richmond at the centre’s ofcial launch
CASE STUDY JUST FOR KIDS LAW/ YOUTH JUSTICE
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Aims of YJLC How TLEF provided YJLC has attracted additional funding from Tis identifed opportunities for YJLC to the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Mark develop a market for its services, and Social Children who end up in criminal courts are fexible support Leonard Trust, and has engaged in wider Finance has been funded further to work with among the most vulnerable in society, with a Te initial TLEF grant enabled Just for Kids eforts to shape the environment for its work, the centre to produce a fnancial model, and range of communication and other problems. Law to create the Youth Justice Legal Centre. building support at the Bar Standards Board operating and fundraising plans. On any objective basis, children should (BSB), Te Law Society and the Ministry of Te centre now provides comprehensive Te centre is led by Kate Aubrey-Johnson, only be represented by the most expert and Justice. YJLC was among the organisations information online and through a telephone a barrister on sabbatical from Garden Court experienced lawyers, yet the opposite is consulted by the BSB before it published advice service for those working with children Chambers. As part of the Foundation’s wider what happens. Just for Kids Law argued in research at the end of 2015 documenting in the criminal justice system, intervenes support for her work, Kate was invited to its application to the Foundation that youth the varied quality of provision in the youth directly in key cases, pushes for improvements join the Foundation on a week-long learning court work is low status and low paid. It is courts, the lack of specialist knowledge and in youth justice law, and provides expert exchange to the US, organised by our seen in some quarters as a training ground skills among some advocates, and a lack of legal advice and training for professionals partners Unbound Philanthropy and the for junior barristers to learn their craft, before specialist training for advocates undertaking working in the feld. Te formal launch of Social Change Initiative. During this trip, moving on to more prestigious Crown Court the work. the centre was held at a well-attended event Kate was introduced to leading US work. YJLC points out that there would be in November 2015 at the House of Lords, an outcry if pediatric medicine was seen as a Te early development of the centre went organisations in the youth justice feld. where the key speaker was Baroness Hale well, and it was clear that more work would training ground for inexperienced surgeons, We have developed strong relationships with of Richmond, deputy president of the UK be useful to further its aim of becoming yet children in the criminal justice system all the organisations involved in this work and Supreme Court. fnancially sustainable. As a result, the are regularly represented by the most junior seen their impressive progress at frst hand. Foundation funded Social Finance, a well barristers, who have had no special training. We have sought to provide fexible support known and highly regarded corporate fnance and to respond to YJLC’s needs as the project advisor for charities and social enterprises, to has progressed. carry out a short consultancy with YJLC to explore diferent business models. As YJLC points out, there would be an outcry if pediatric medicine was seen as a training ground for inexperienced surgeons, yet children in the criminal justice system are regularly represented by the most junior barristers, who have had no special training.
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Jacob was 12 when, the Te next morning, at 7 o’clock, Jacob was arrested at home by two police ofcers, and A SECOND morning after a prank on a taken in the van, and put in the holding cell at school trip, police turned up the police station for three hours. He was told at his house to arrest him. His he was going to be charged with arson and CHANCE, intent to endanger life. mother, Natalie, explains why THANKS At that point, I began searching online and she believes expert advice I came across various organisations which and support from the Youth seemed to be in support of children when they TO YJLC Justice Legal Centre stopped made mistakes. And one of them was the Youth Justice Legal Centre, and if it wasn’t for YJLC, her son’s future being my son would not be able to look forward to a blighted as a result. future where he can do anything he wants to do. My son would love to go to America. He is interested in fnance and accountancy. With a caution, which is what we were being told to accept, he would not even be able to go on holiday to America, let alone to get a visa to study or work there. I want to tell you about my son, Jacob. Between age 7-11, he wanted to be a ballet dancer. Ten he got interested in drama. He had an audition at the local youth theatre and he got the audition. When he was 12, he went on a school trip. Tere was a single moment on that trip which, without YJLC’s help, could have had an impact on the rest of his life. He was in a public convenience with a friend. Two bored 12 year old boys. One of them with a lighter - not my son, but he was there, too. Tere was some toilet tissue that was dangling, and they proceeded to light the dangling tissue, which set fre to the tissue holder. Tat’s all that caught fre.
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For three weeks, we were bombarded by the I am a pretty assertive mum, but I know from Natalie called the With Natalie’s agreement, I liaised directly police, who wanted Jacob to come in and where I live that there are many kids that Youth Justice Legal with the police and youth ofending team. sign the caution. For those three weeks, I was don’t have parents like that. YJLC helps you to Centre because she Tis involved making detailed written under immense pressure because I was also bridge that gap because there are too many felt this incident had representations, where I cited a raft of working. YJLC’s lawyer kept me on track. diamonds in the rough that, with a bit of been blown out of all diferent guidance - including from the Yes, Jacob had lit tissue - but there was no friction, can be polished, Wonderful things proportion and Jacob CPS, Youth Justice Board, Ministry of Justice, malice involved in what he did, yet the Youth can come from it, if children are given a should be allowed to and even the Association of Chief Police Ofending Team was so insistent. Tey wanted second chance, rather than made to sufer make a childish mistake. Ofcers - all of which showed that the most to take what I call a ‘ just is’ approach: ‘Tat for what was only a momentary mistake. Jacob had already appropriate outcome to Jacob’s case was just is the way it is.’ But what YJLC gave me written a letter of apology and ofered to help triage or no further action. I cannot thank YJLC enough because Jacob was a justice approach. Tey told me not to the caretaker re-paint or repair any damage. now has the chance to make any path I also gathered character references for Jacob accept the caution, and eventually persuaded He had never been in trouble with the police that he wants. to support the written representations. the police to drop the charges. before and was upset about the prospect of getting a criminal record and being excluded After almost daily contact with the police for I work for the health service. I would like from school. nearly three weeks, they fnally agreed to take Jacob to be bare foot in the jungle working no further action against Jacob. with animals, but he wants to work in Canary Unfortunately, the solicitor acting for Jacob Wharf. I work with children all day and I am at the time, who did not specialise in youth Since then, Jacob has taken part in a London a public servant, but he wants to own a work, had told Natalie there was no point Fire Brigade education awareness programme Lamborghini. Tanks to YJLC, maybe he making written representations to the police, and voluntarily switched to a new school, will one day. as Jacob’s behaviour amounted to arson. He where he has made a fantastic start. said the seriousness of the ofence meant the LAURA COOPER (pictured) police decision was difcult to challenge and YOUTH JUSTICE LAWYER there was nothing more he could do. When I spoke to Natalie, I was able to explain the processes that Jacob had gone through at the police station and the legal protections in place for children in the criminal justice system. Te police wanted Jacob to accept a youth conditional caution, and I explained about criminal records and the implications this would have on future job prospects, because of enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
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TO INCREASE ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION AND, IN PARTICULAR, TO ADVANCE SOCIAL MOBILITY AND DIVERSITY 3 Te Legal Education Foundation Annual Review 2016 24 Contents 2016 Chief Executive’s Objectives Objective 1 Objective 2 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 Geographical Financial People in numbers introduction overview spread of grants summary
We believe that it is vital to support the next • funding the frst year of the next three- We want to ensure that Grants by cluster people are attracted to, and generation of skilled and committed lawyers year programme of Pathways students, who will ensure that the law plays the role set which annually gives over 400 young Supporting the next generation are able to, pursue careers out in our vision. people from less advantaged backgrounds of social justice lawyers (Justice the opportunity to decide whether to go in legal services at all levels, In 2015/16 the Foundation took a number of First Fellowship) to university and join the legal service steps to further this Objective by: £996,000 particularly to refect the professions; • funding and assisting with the recruitment Increasing access to diversity of the population. • funding the establishment of the City of the third cohort of Justice First Fellows. employment for those from Solicitors’ Horizons programme, which will Tis will result in the strengthening of the less advantaged backgrounds give support to 50 young people each year advice sector; £457,000 while they are at university, and encourage them to consider a career in law.
AVERAGE GRANT 19GRANTS £76,400 TOTAL VALUE
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CITY SOLICITORS’ LORD EDMUND- SUTTON TRUST JUSTICE FIRST EDUCATIONAL DAVIES LEGAL FELLOWSHIP TRUST EDUCATION TRUST £300,000 Pathways to Law £996,000 £150,000 £6,500 Two-year training and Supporting the Pathways to City Solicitors Horizons LEDLET Summer Scheme development programme in 2016 Law Phase 4 programme, specialist advice agencies Piloting a social mobility which works to inspire and and law frms initiative to improve access Funding a summer school support academically-able 16 grants meeting the to the legal profession for Welsh students from less students from non-privileged costs of training Fellows for young people from privileged backgrounds to backgrounds who are based in 15 leading social disadvantaged backgrounds. spend a week in legal London, interested in a career in law, welfare law organisations: Over the next three years, undertaking work experience starting in year 10. Anti Trafcking and Labour 50 undergraduates annually and receiving careers advice. Exploitation Unit, Bar Pro will be selected to take part Bono Unit (two barrister in a three-year programme, placements), Central alongside their undergraduate England Law Centre (trading degrees. as Birmingham Community Law Centre), Children’s Law Centre, Community Law Advice Network, Govan Law Centre, Islington Law Centre, Just for Kids Law, Norfolk Community Law Service, Pump Court Chambers, RCJ Advice, Release, South West London Law Centres, St John’s Chambers, Ty Arian Solicitors (trading GRANTS as TA Law). 2016 INCREASING ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT SUPPORTING THE NEXT FOR THOSE FROM LESS ADVANTAGED GENERATION OF SOCIAL BACKGROUNDS JUSTICE LAWYERS Te Legal Education Foundation Annual Review 2016 26 Contents 2016 Chief Executive’s Objectives Objective 1 Objective 2 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 Geographical Financial People in numbers introduction overview spread of grants summary
Te Foundation launched the Justice First Fellowship in 2013. Tis groundbreaking scheme aims to support the next generation of social welfare lawyers to deliver justice in their communities. Te scheme was a response to the huge stresses on the ability of specialist social welfare law agencies to meet legal needs across the country.
As well as afecting services, these difculties had undermined the ability of the sector to ofer opportunities for aspiring social justice lawyers to complete the compulsory period of professional training. Tis, in turn, reduces the long-term ability of citizens to access specialist legal help. Tere are now 18 Fellows in place in host organisations in all four countries of the UK. Te 2016 recruitment round will place another 13 Fellows, taking the total to 31, with planning for 2017 already underway. Signifcant developments this year include a partnership with London Legal Support Trust and City Bridge Trust (which is contributing £320,000 over three years) to create a cohort of six Fellows in key London advice organisations. Te Foundation is also creating a cohort of specialist Fellows working in child law, through CASE STUDY support for Fellows at Just for Kids Law in England, Clan Childlaw in Scotland, and the Children’s Law Centre in Northern Ireland. Tis approach of developing specialist cohorts within the overall group will be explored in JUSTICE FIRST future rounds.
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Tis year, law frms in Birmingham are co- All Fellows take responsibility for a project funding a Fellow, joining the four frms already during the course of their Fellowship. Tis supporting a Fellow in Bristol. Herbert Smith helps to foster project development skills and Freehills, Allen & Overy, and Hogan Lovells are gives the host organisation an opportunity to also co-funding Fellows at three long-standing develop a new area of work that could go on partner organisations, Child Poverty Action to contribute to the Fellows’ salary after the Group, Central England Law Centre, and the Foundation’s support comes to an end. Te Anti Trafcking and Labour Exploitation Unit, projects have proved a remarkable additional respectively. A partnership with Unbound beneft to the scheme, involving exciting new Philanthropy has been key to the early ideas, services, and infuencing. Projects have incubation and subsequent development of the ranged from a partnership to provide advice Fellowship through its invaluable intellectual to women experiencing domestic violence; to and fnancial support. giving evidence in Geneva to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights about Working with the Family Law Bar Association housing issues in Glasgow. Noticeable in the and the Councils of the Inns of Court, this year second round of Fellows was a growing focus the Foundation has delivered on its aim to on the role of technology. expand the scheme to pupil barristers. Fellows are being recruited at St John’s Chambers in Networking and mutual support are key aspects Bristol and Pump Court in London. of the Fellowship scheme, and we bring all the Fellows together at the two annual events. Tey will spend the frst year of the two-year Tese events are an opportunity for Fellows to Fellowship as case workers at the Bar Pro share experiences and lessons with each other Bono Unit, gaining valuable experience and and with their host organisations, and to hear building networks that will stand them in good from experts in the feld. Tis all contributes to stead as they go on to complete their pupillage the focus of the scheme from day one, on what and build their practice once the Fellowship happens to the Fellows in year three, to ensure comes to an end. that they are well placed to take their work to the next step. Tis year, the Foundation has funded an independent review of the scheme, being carried out by consultant and author Vicky Ling, to help inform the next phase of the scheme’s development.
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TO DEVELOP A ROBUST EVIDENCE BASE OF NEEDS IN EACH OF THE AREAS ABOVE AND EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVE WAYS OF MEETING THESE NEEDS 4 Te Legal Education Foundation Annual Review 2016 29 Contents 2016 Chief Executive’s Objectives Objective 1 Objective 2 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 Geographical Financial People in numbers introduction overview spread of grants summary
We want to build robust Te Foundation continues to invest in A further focus has been on research to supporting our grantees to measure the explore the role of university law schools in evidence of needs and of impact of their projects. To date, the type delivering thought leadership and research in ‘Legal capability’ efective legal education of activity most commonly funded by the relation to access to justice. Foundation- is a relatively new and legal services that meet Foundation has related to developing, funded research, produced by academics at disseminating or delivering training in the University of Ulster, mapped existing these needs. particular areas of law. We have practice in university law clinics across the concept, used to Tis will include understanding more about commissioned research exploring best UK, identifying areas of good practice and denote the knowledge, the nature of needs among individuals and practice in the design, delivery and evaluation opportunities for improvement. Further organisations and the environment in which of training, which will be summarised in an research, ‘Exploring the role of University skills and attitudes that these needs exist; fnding existing good accessible best practice guide. We hope that Law Clinics in identifying and progressing practice and examining how it works; the outputs of this project will equip grantees public law issues’, led by lawyers at the Public people need to be rigorously examining the outcomes of our with the tools to measure and capture the Law Project in conjunction with four own work, and capturing and sharing impact of their training while developing our university law clinic partners, is exploring able to deal with legal evidence so that it is widely acted on. understanding of best practice in delivering diferent models for involving university law training about the law to diferent clinics in supporting specialists to pursue In 2015/16 the Foundation invested in the stakeholders. cases relating to public law. Tis report has problems efectively. development of tools to enable the feld to been used to assist in assessing grant capture robust data on legal capability. ‘Legal Te Foundation has funded projects under applications relating to clinical legal capability’ is a relatively new concept that is our open programme that have contributed education and will inform our work in this increasingly used to denote the knowledge, or are predicted to contribute to building the area going forward. skills and attitudes that people need to be able evidence base under each of our strategic to deal with legal problems efectively. We objectives. Tese include the funding of have awarded grants to sector experts secondary analysis of data from the 2012 Civil Professor Pascoe Pleasence and Dr Nigel and Social Justice Panel Survey. Tis research Balmer to produce a standardised measure of revealed the vulnerability of individuals in legal capability. Tis will enable actors in the rented housing in the context of experiencing feld to measure changes in legal capability civil law problems. In addition, the outputs of over time and compare the efcacy of this research were used by Foundation diferent approaches to developing legal grantees Youth Access and Law for Life to capability. Learning from methodological explore the relationship between mental approaches utilised in public health research, health morbidity and the experience of civil we hope to support the feld to underpin their law problems, and to identify implications for work with robust research. public legal education, respectively.
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TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE THAT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CAN PLAY IN ACHIEVING EACH OF THE OTHER OBJECTIVES 5 Te Legal Education Foundation Annual Review 2016 31 Contents 2016 Chief Executive’s Objectives Objective 1 Objective 2 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 Geographical Financial People in numbers introduction overview spread of grants summary
We recognise that information We have created a section on our website With a growing number of people and devoted to IT. Tis has four elements: organisations interested in the possibilities that technology is not a magic might fow from each new development, we It is essential that bullet for achieving our vision • Resources, which include best have launched a Law, Technology and Access practice guides. organisations helping and mission, but that it has a to Justice blog (www.law-tech-a2j.org), linked to the @lawtech_a2j Twitter account. major role to play. • Our response to the Interim Report people exercise of Lord Justice Briggs on the Civil We hope that lessons from online initiatives We strongly believe that information Courts Structure Review. in other jurisdictions will be taken fully into their legal rights technology will have a role to play in • Grant Funded Projects. account in the introduction of the new civil ensuring that everyone in the UK has the courts structure. are themselves ability to gain access to justice. With the • Digital Delivery Reports. impending digitisation of the courts, indeed able to use IT to most government services, it is essential that Te site gives details of the types of projects organisations helping people exercise their we have supported, and we are happy to greatest efect legal rights are themselves able to use IT to facilitate introductions for potential grant the greatest efect. applicants to these organisations, so that best practice can be shared. Tere are various facets to using IT to further our objectives. Te Digital Delivery Reports section is produced by Roger Smith, who produces We have made 26 grants to projects that will regular updates on initiatives from around the use IT to deliver their aims. A number of world, mostly from the Anglosphere nations, these are information websites of various in bringing access to justice to those on low degrees of sophistication. Others are for incomes. Te pace of new developments apps; a few are for equipment. appearing is moving ever faster, just as it is in other sectors. Ideas and initiatives can be In September 2015, we held a digital seminar rapidly shared, which helps stimulate further in London to bring together people with an development. interest in exchanging ideas on using IT for access to justice, particularly for those on low incomes. Some of the participants were abroad and, of course, they attended via video conferencing.
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SCOTLAND UNITED ENGLAND KINGDOM AND WALES 2 grants £77,296 31 grants 20 grants Grants to organisations £1,897,271 £737,614 whose work centres Grants to organisations Grants to organisations on Scotland. whose work reaches whose work relates to across the four countries the legal jurisdiction of in the UK. England and Wales.
NORTHERN ENGLAND (3) West Midlands IRELAND 2 grants 4 grants £136,438 2 grants £312,055 (4) East of England £106,914 Grants to organisations 1 grant whose work is England Grants to organisations 1 £62,863 whose work centres on wide, rather than being Northern Ireland. focused on a particular (5) London 2 region (see below). 9 grants £547,678 ENGLAND REGIONS (6) South East WALES 1 grant Grants to organisations £10,000 2 grants whose work has a £74,490 3 regional focus. (7) South West 4 2 grants Grants to organisations (1) North West £121,454 whose work centres 2 grants on Wales. 5 £156,001 6 7 (2) Yorkshire and Te Humber 1 grant £10,000 GEOGRAPHICAL SPREAD OF GRANTS Te Legal Education Foundation Annual Review 2016 33 Contents 2016 Chief Executive’s Objectives Objective 1 Objective 2 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 Geographical Financial People in numbers introduction overview spread of grants summary
Te fnancial information set out here is Te investment fund was created from the £m 2016 £m 2015 taken from the full audited annual report net proceeds, after meeting all costs of and accounts of the Foundation for the year commitments, of the sale of the College of Investment Fund 222.3 214.1 to 30 June 2016. Te fgures are unaudited Law training operations at the end of Income and show the main areas of income November 2012. Te intention is to reach a Investments 3.4 2.9 and expenditure. position of taking 3.5 per cent of the fund each Grants and donations received 0.4 0.8 year for grant, research and other ongoing Te full audited annual report and accounts expenditure. 3.8 3.7 for the year to 30 June 2016 can be seen by entering the Foundation’s charity number, Expenditure 271297, on the Charity Commission Grants 4.2 3.8 website here. Research 0.1 0.1 Grant making 0.6 0.4 Other direct costs 0.4 0.4 Governance 0.1 0.1 Investment management 0.1 0.1 Other 0.2 0.2 5.7 5.1
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BOARD OF GOVERNORS COMMITTEES STAFF Guy Beringer QC (Hon) Grants Matthew Smerdon Chairman Chief Executive Guy Beringer QC (Hon) Ailsa Beaton Chairman Belinda Berry Senior Administration Ofcer Timothy Dutton QC Timothy Dutton QC Natalie Byrom Roger Finbow Edward Nally Director of Research & Mark Harding Jane Reeves Learning Sally James Carol Coe Accounts Manager Edward Nally Audit (part-time) Jane Reeves Mark Harding Jill Gale Chairman Deputy Secretary Ailsa Beaton Alan Harlow IT/Digital Manager Roger Finbow Alan Humphreys Kirsty Garrison Deputy Chief Executive & External Secretary Clare Johns Investment Foundation Accountant Jake Lee Sally James Director of Legal Strategy Chairman (part-time) Rupert Baron Nikki Letley External Administration Ofcer Lord Hemphill (part-time) External Wendy Tompsett Administration Ofcer
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