How we work

We provide and resource accessible and responsive legal support to minoritised communities to organise, build and scale, so they can take action on the issues that matter to them. Our work is framed through a collaborative lens, where lawyers play a supportive and enabling role in movements for social change.

RESOURCE

We resource & provide affordable, accessible legal support that centres the needs of Black, Asian, migrant, immigrant, refugee, indigenous and other minoritised communities in the UK

RETHINK

We rethink the role of lawyers to play an enabling role to catalyse social change; and the delivery of legal support by building tools to overcome barriers to accessing that support

REDISTRIBUTE

We redistribute legal power and knowledge into the hands of community leaders, changemakers & activists and situate legal support in the heart of community spaces

Set-up & Governance

We’re working closely with early-stage organisations to help them choose legal structures and governance models that align with their ethos and develop their work in community-centric ways

Legal Toolkits

We’re responding to community requests for knowledge by developing legal resources to support those needs, including toolkits and translated legal resources

Community Legal Workshops

We’re partnering with community organisations to run or resource legal workshops supporting community leaders to set up, build and scale their work

Open-Sourced Legal Support

Where possible, we agree with our collaborators to open-source our legal support on an anonymised basis, so the wider community can benefit from the questions asked and answers provided

Board Allyship

We’re trialling alternative forms of governance support, where lawyers play the role of allies to co-create supportive spaces on boards

Funded Legal Support

We’ve secured a small pot of funding to provide legal support to 2-5 early-stage organisations working on grassroots organising, migration and social change

Collaborators

Testimonals

“Thank you for supporting us through to this stage and through this dimension of our evolution. It has meant so much to us to have you by our sides on this, and to be able to be in community with you both. Thank you for ‘getting’ us. Thank you for dreaming with us. Thank you for honouring the work that we are trying to do. Thank you for being Sistren!”

I cannot stress enough how amazing these workshops were and what an important piece of the puzzle this is for all Social Entrepreneurs in our community. You have really helped to simplify and demystify something which is often a big barrier.

“We work a lot with corporate pro bono. I know they’re not used to being in a communities or speaking to hijabi women – I did find them to be a bit patronising. When we work with community lawyers they are like me and you, they come from an immigrant background…. so having your project is a breath of fresh air.”