Shoosmiths Foundation

The Shoosmiths Foundation is a grant making body working to help address societal issues, to empower sustainable change and to improve the lives of the people and the environment in the UK.

The Shoosmiths Foundation has announced support for End Youth Homelessness and Street League charities with a total of £90,000 awarded.

Funding to End Youth Homelessness will provide circa 2,174 hours of employability support from Employability Coaches and help circa 41 young people back into Employment, Education or Training (EET).

Funding to Street League will support 53 unemployed young people, living in some of the most deprived communities across Leeds and Sheffield, to gain qualifications they need to secure meaningful job opportunities.

The next call for grant applications and the funding theme will be announced in mid-2022.

Key criteria

£5,000 to £50,000 grants are available for UK registered charities undertaking work in the UK.

Funding is at the discretion of the Shoosmiths Foundation Grants Committee.

The Foundation builds on Shoosmiths’ existing community investment programme which continues to support local charity partners through staff fundraising and firm donations, staff volunteering and provision of legal advice pro bono.

UK registered charities may apply.

Eligible expenditure

The Shoosmiths Foundation offers grants in the following categories to:

advance social mobility in the legal sector, and across the UK, in line with the Shoosmiths social mobility action plan. Particular focus on charitable organisations which share our belief that ‘talent can come from anywhere’, and which align their interventions with local socio-economic analysis and need;
advance a carbon net zero UK; and
advance access to justice in the UK.

N.B. Applications for this round must relate to the social mobility aim which is the Shoosmiths Foundation’s grant giving priority for 2021.