Environmental Law Foundation

The Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) is a UK charity that helps communities and individuals use the law to protect the environment and ensure their voices are heard in environmental decision-making. 

ELF provide free information and guidance in-house on environmental issues, and also through their university-based law clinics, and via a network of specialist environmental lawyers and technical experts. They exist primarily to help socially and economically disadvantaged communities which want to address their environmental concerns but lack the resources or information to do so. 

ERF’s grant supports ELF’s core work while also advancing the growing movement for Rights of Nature in the UK. This approach seeks to grant legal personhood to natural entities, such as rivers or ecosystems, to ensure stronger, enforceable protections that recognise nature’s intrinsic value. ELF supports local communities and champion legal reforms to embed this principle into UK environmental law.