The Victorian Bar Foundation was established to progress the interests of justice in Victoria and further legal education and training in our community. The Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation which enables the Bar and Bench to contribute to the community and causes outside the Bar itself.
The Foundation acts as a trustee of charitable trusts. Working through the Board of Directors, the Foundation seeks donations, administers funds, and evaluates and makes grants.
Grant recipients may include law students, lawyers continuing their legal education and organisations promoting training to lawyers and legal institutions in Australia and overseas. The Foundation fosters and promotes an understanding of the legal system and the role of law in our society and promotes the Victorian Bar’s benevolent involvement in the community.
Chairman | The Honourable John Digby KC |
Treasurer | The Honourable Justice Stewart Anderson KC |
Director | John Karkar KC |
Director | Neil Young KC |
Director | Philip Crutchfield KC |
Director | Kateena Anna O'Gorman SC |
Director | Angela Lee |
Director | Nawaar Hassan |
Director | Georgie Coleman |
Director | Justin Hooper |
Director | Elizabeth Brumby |
Honorary Secretary | David Colman |
Company Secretary | Amanda Utt |
Patron | The Honourable Justice Michelle Gordon AC |
The aims and activities of the Victorian Bar Foundation are:
Investing in our future
Promoting legal education and opportunities and ultimately the administration of justice through grants for lawyers and aspiring lawyers, and related initiatives.
A unified justice system
Bringing together the different arms of the legal profession to promote the interests of justice in Victoria through seminars and fundraising activities.
Increasing public awareness of the Justice System in Victoria
Through media contact, educational, and promotional activities.
Raising funds for grant making purposes
Through fundraising activities.
The current grant making policy is:
“The Directors of Victorian Bar Foundation Limited, as Trustee, have resolved, with agreement from the members, as of 2 February 2011, when making grants to item 1 DGRs in accordance with the trust deed, to seek donations, applications for grants and to provide the grants for one or more of the following purposes:
The Directors, with agreement of the members, may replace, add to, remove or otherwise vary this grant making policy.”
Applications, which meet the Victorian Bar Foundation requirements, should be in the form of a written submission, outlining:
Applications should be forwarded to:
Amanda Utt
The Victorian Bar Foundation Limited
ACN 143 603 927
Level 5, 205 William Street, Melbourne 3000
T 03 9225 7111
Donations are sought from all members of the Victorian Bar.
Click here to make a donation to The Victorian Bar Foundation by credit card. Alternatively, please complete and return the donation form below:
All donations are tax deductible.