Since its inception in 1990, Stewarts has been actively involved in supporting a variety of charities. The Stewarts Foundation was set up in 2010 to formalise and manage the firm’s charitable giving.
In 2024 the partners of Stewarts donated £854,401 to the Stewarts Foundation to support its chosen causes. To date, the Foundation has donated just under £10m to over 250 charities.
The Stewarts Foundation 2024 donations
Bliss was chosen as our Charity of the Year for 2024, following a firmwide vote by our lawyers and staff. The charity’s aim is to ensure that babies born in neonatal care get the support they need and to develop supportive relationships with their parents and medical professionals.
Other charities provided grants by the Foundation in 2024 include:
- Access to Justice: : In 2019, the Foundation committed to a second five-year programme of support for Access to Justice, which supports the cause of free legal advice for all those who need it.
- BAILII: to maintain and expand BAILII’s freely accessible databases of legal materials, and further its vital work of providing free access to the law for all.
- Back-Up Trust: to support individuals with spinal cord injury and their families.
- Brainbox: to provide a programme of social activities for children and young people and their families.
- Centrepoint Soho: to assist with mental health issues experienced by young people.
- Charlie Waller Trust: to fund a part-time Parent Carer Lived Experience Partner.
- Dads House: to fund the Dads House Family Law Clinic.
- Dr Ateh Jewel Foundation: to financially support and empower Black and Mixed heritage students in higher education. The money will be used for Dr Ateh’s award at Oxford University.
- FEAST: to contribute to the expansion of community meals across the London Borough of Camden and other North and East London boroughs, and the roll-out of healthy eating education for vulnerable people experiencing food poverty.
- Finito Education: to fund a bursary to support an individual annually from an underprivileged background.
- Future Frontiers: to deliver career coaching and guidance for disadvantaged young people in London. As in previous years (and planned again for next year, a group of students from a local school visited our offices in January and February)
- Headway – The Brain Injury Association: providing grants towards the Emergency Fund to help adult brain injury survivors and their families cope with the practical implications in the immediate aftermath of brain injury.
- Just for Kids Law: to support their community care and public law work, to secure the community care rights of children and young people.
- JUSTICE: to support work to ensure that Behavioural Control Orders are issued and enforced in a fair and consistent manner that respects human rights and are effective in achieving their purpose.
- LawCare: to fund a temporary research assistant and a consultant risk and practice analyst, and develop a toolkit for legal workplaces to adopt a risk-based preventative approach to mental health.
- The Neurokinex Charitable Trust: towards providing rehabilitation sessions to children living with paralysis (including staff time for reporting).
- Royal Academy of Arts: to fund a student bursary. Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell has been selected as the most recent recipient.
Maya’s work will be displayed at the 2026 RA Schools Show.
- Sands (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death): to advance research and prevention activity for preventing pregnancy and baby loss, improve maternity care and support bereaved families, including support to men through Sands United FC Solihull.
- Schools Consent Project: to enable the growth of the SCP and the expanded education of young people in the subject of sexual consent and the law.
- School-Home Support: to be used in accordance with SHS’s five year strategy.
- Social Welfare Solicitors Qualification Fund (SWSQF): to provide financial assistance to aspiring solicitors working in social welfare law for organisations serving disadvantaged communities.
- Spinal Injuries Association: to fund mental health services for people with spinal cord injury. Stewarts was proud to serve as the headline sponsor for this year’s SIA Rebuilding Lives Conference.
- St George’s Crypt: towards the Health and Wellbeing services, Growing Rooms men and Growing Rooms ladies.
- St Mungo’s: to fund SM’s Putting Down Roots program, rebuilding lives through access to employment, independent housing and recovery from rough sleeping.
- Talk About Trust: towards TTAT’s essential work of enabling young people across Greater London and the South East to make safer choices around alcohol and other substances.
- Wellbeing of Women: to support Wellbeing of Women’s Campaigns, Advocacy and health inequalities work.
- WheelPower: to provide services for people with spinal cord injuries including advice and support on the benefits of physical activity to recently paralysed people as well as organising activity sessions during their rehabilitation.
- XLP: to the School Exclusion Reduction Programme.
Daniel Turnbull Scholarship Fund
The Foundation continues to support the Daniel Turnbull Scholarship, offered to an individual who is disabled as defined under the Equality Act 2010 to complete the LPC at any of the University of Law’s campuses.
Mia Mulligan is the latest recipient of the Daniel Turnbull Scholarship. Mia is currently studying the LPC and a Master of Laws postgraduate degree (LLM) at University of Law.
The Stewarts Foundation vision
The Foundation’s vision is to:
- Create opportunities for the disadvantaged in our society
- Treat people less fortunate than ourselves with compassion and respect
- Make a substantial social impact
In order to focus the grant giving the Foundation supports a small number of UK charities carefully selected by its Trustees through its grant-giving programme.
The Foundation refocused its grant giving principles in 2016 to include four key areas:
- Alleviating poverty
- Enabling access to justice
- Supporting disability
- Providing educational opportunity
Find out more about The Stewarts Foundation by clicking here