Thank you for your support over the past financial year
As we head into 2025-26, we’re pleased to share some good news: LawRight has secure funding for the next five years.
With our existing core funding ending on 30 June, we’ve worked closely with the sector, government and supporters like you to ensure we can keep delivering vital legal services.
But while secure funding is welcome, it doesn’t allow for the increasing legal need that comes with dual cos-of-living and housing crises. As demand has grown, at times we have had to pause new client intake so we can properly help our existing clients.
The challenge ahead of us is to address this increasing justice gap, and to work collaboratively to tackle to root causes of disadvantage. We are grateful to have our amazing partners at our side – dedicated pro bono firms and barristers, volunteers, law schools, courts, tribunals and colleagues in the community sector.
Our quarterly newsletter below shares more about the impact of your work with LawRight, how you can support us, and reports on recent work including Everday Legal Training for Frontline Workers and a wrap-up of the Queensland Legal Walk.
We’re grateful for your support as we continue our work towards greater access to justice.
Karen Dyhrberg, LawRight CEO
Your impact
We recently conducted a client survey, and here’s a few words that our clients had to say about LawRight’s impact:
How you can support LawRight
Make a tax-deductible donation
It’s that time of year. Your donation to LawRight increases access to justice by helping people who can’t afford a lawyer to address their legal challenges.
Become a Friend of LawRight
Friends of LawRight pledge to donate $1,000 a year for three years. Since 2018, these generous donors have provided a secure income stream to help LawRight build new services that address the legal needs of highly vulnerable communities.
Everyday Legal Training for Frontline Workers
In April and May, LawRight provided targeted and practical training to over 120 community workers in Brisbane and Cairns.
Across both trainings, LawRight’s Homelessness Law partnered with ATSILS, Basic Rights Queensland, Tenants Queensland, the Salvation Amy, the Mater Hospital’s Young Adult Support Unit, Cairns Community Legal Centre, ICAN, the MARA Project, Victim Assist Queensland, Legal Aid Queensland, and NQ Women’s Legal Service to deliver 18 sessions on various everyday legal issues connected to an experience of disadvantage.
Interest in the training was extremely high: without significant promotion, the 130 registrations across both training days were filled within the first week, with a further 30 people requesting to be placed on a waitlist.
In reflecting on the training, one frontline worker shared: “The LawRight training session for frontline workers was absolutely fantastic. The content covered from passionate speakers made the whole day easy to absorb, very interactive and always open to delving further into specific topics. Highly recommend.”
We thank Barry Nilsson and James Cook University for their support.
Wrapping up the Queensland Legal Walk
Thank you to everyone who supported the Walk on 20 May. A record 1,157 walkers across Queensland got up early to show their dedication to justice!
Your donations support:
- LawRight’s Disbursement Fund, helping out the clients of pro bono and community legal centres with the out-of-pocket costs that come with legal proceedings
- LawRight services, helping to meet demand where government funding isn’t enough
- a $10,000 contribution to Townsville Community Law, to enable them to continue outreach work after the devastating floods
Our final fundraising tally was $125,000 – a little less than originally reported after we discovered a glitch doing some duplicating in the background! If you didn’t make it this year, it’s not too late to donate and help us climb back to $130,000.
Many thanks to our sponsors ActionStep, Queensland Law Society and the Bar Association of Queensland.
LawRight acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land and waters throughout Australia and pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We benefit from the gifts of First Nations peoples; acknowledge the historical and ongoing injustices they bear and support their call for power over their destiny.
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