Today our Strengthening Civil Society programme, which supports civil society to use the law to achieve social change, is launching three new funding streams to support our grantholders and broader civil society to tackle the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
This funding will run throughout 2020 and represents a commitment of up to £1,000,000 to supporting civil society at this time.
Our longer-term plans for this Programme remain the same and you can find an outline of our strategy for the next five years here.
Supporting legal action related to Covid-19 – open to all
We already know that the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on individuals and communities who already experience discrimination and disadvantage.
This fund will support legal action in all its forms – empowering, persuading, challenging – that seeks to protect vulnerable individuals and communities from the impact of Covid-19 and the response to the pandemic from public authorities, businesses, and communities.
It is open to all registered charities, including current grantholders.