Pro bono projects in Manchester

BPP Legal Advice Clinic (BLAC)

BLAC aims to offer free legal advice to the community and to provide you with the opportunity to gain practical legal experience. With the assistance of BLAC’s staff and Supervisors (volunteer lecturers and practitioners), you will interview and advise clients on their legal problems.

Greater Manchester Cares

Greater Manchester Cares is an initiative of Business in the Community. It provides opportunities for businesses to volunteer in the local community addressing local social and economic needs. Many of the large firms of solicitors and accountants, financial institutions and other major businesses in the local area support the work of Greater Manchester Cares by providing teams of volunteers. You will organise, manage and participate in both individual and team challenges ranging from helping children with their reading or maths skills, to assisting local community groups with gardening or decorating their facilities.

Human Rights Unit

The Human Rights Unit includes a variety of student human rights initiatives, through which you will provide supporting legal research to organisations such as Amicus, Amnesty International, Interights, the Solicitors International Human Rights Group, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, Reprieve, and the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute. Through our Liberty Letters Clinic, you will draft replies to human rights queries from the public.

Intellectual Property Pro Bono Group

The Group’s aims are to promote your understanding of the field of intellectual property law whilst facilitating IP lawyers’ provision of pro bono services to the community. The Group has three main branches of activity - providing interviews and letters of legal advice to a small number of individuals and charities; designing and delivering presentations on IP law to music, film and art students; and replying to IP queries submitted to the online advice service of our partner organisation Own It, a non-profit group providing free intellectual property advice to London's creative industries.

Pro Bono Initiative with Arts & Business

Arts & Business is a national non-profit organisation, managed on a regional basis, which helps businesses support the arts. The support is not limited to legal advice and assistance. It enables arts organisations to access the wealth of expertise within the business community on legal, financial, marketing, and technical issues. You will assist this initiative by providing short presentations for arts organisations on topics such as business and employment law, duties of trustees and obtaining registered charity status. You will also give advice and assistance to individual art organisations.

Streetlaw

The Streetlaw project is based on the philosophies of the US-based Street Law Program and Streetlaw UK to promote education about the law, democracy and human rights to citizens who would not otherwise have access to legal knowledge or education. You will provide interactive learning presentations on the law to various groups, including primary and secondary school pupils, prison inmates, community groups and the homeless.