City Bridge Foundation Accepting Applications for Access to Justice Fund

City Bridge Foundation is offering grants of up to £450,000 to support ‘led by and for’ not-for-profit groups across London providing social welfare advice, social action, and systems change, to ensure that Londoners can access their rights and find solutions to problems in the areas of housing, welfare benefits, debt, employment, and immigration.

Through the Access to Justice Fund, a total of £6.5 million is available across the following funding streams:

A total of £6.5 million is available across two funding streams:

• Three-year Development Grants of £75,000.
• Five-year Transformation Grants of £200,000, £300,000, or £450,000.

Funding is for groups that provide good-quality, free social welfare advice to Londoners, and use their frontline experience to drive social action and systems change (or have the ambition to do so.

Grants can be used flexibly over the grant period to support core costs, long-term strategic objectives, and to develop a group’s social action work to bring about systems change.

Eligible costs can include core costs, programme activity, organisational development, collaboration and movement building, and community organising, advocacy, and campaigning.

The Foundation is expecting to award 20 to 25 grants in this funding round.