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The COIC Pupillage Matched Funding Scheme helps to provide additional pupillages in chambers, and other approved training organisations (AETOs), predominantly engaged in legally aided work.
Encouragingly, a growing number of chambers are applying for COIC match-funded grants. COIC is set to support 34 pupillages in 2022. This is an impressive improvement on the scheme’s first year of operation in 2014, when it supported 14 pupillages.
It is a prerequisite of the scheme that chambers understand that match-funded pupillages are in addition to those they would have offered in any event. COIC matches pupillage funding already provided by chambers with a total grant of £9,650 for 2023-2024 London pupillages and £8,250 for 2023-2024 out-of-London pupillages, and £10,000 for 2024-25 London pupillages and £8,550 for 2024-25 out-of-London pupillages, to fund the first six months of a second pupillage.
Chambers are responsible for ensuring that the total pupillage award meets the BSB’s minimum award for the year in question.
Applications to match fund 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 pupillages are invited between 5 September and 21 October 2022.
Decisions will be communicated during the week commencing 7 November 2022.
Online applications can be made at www.coic.org.uk/pupillage-matched-funding. To find out more please email Hayley Dawes at COIC at: hdawes@coic.org.uk
Testimonial: Devon Chambers
The COIC Pupillage Matched Funding Scheme helps to provide additional pupillages in chambers, and other approved training organisations (AETOs), predominantly engaged in legally aided work.
Encouragingly, a growing number of chambers are applying for COIC match-funded grants. COIC is set to support 34 pupillages in 2022. This is an impressive improvement on the scheme’s first year of operation in 2014, when it supported 14 pupillages.
It is a prerequisite of the scheme that chambers understand that match-funded pupillages are in addition to those they would have offered in any event. COIC matches pupillage funding already provided by chambers with a total grant of £9,650 for 2023-2024 London pupillages and £8,250 for 2023-2024 out-of-London pupillages, and £10,000 for 2024-25 London pupillages and £8,550 for 2024-25 out-of-London pupillages, to fund the first six months of a second pupillage.
Chambers are responsible for ensuring that the total pupillage award meets the BSB’s minimum award for the year in question.
Applications to match fund 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 pupillages are invited between 5 September and 21 October 2022.
Decisions will be communicated during the week commencing 7 November 2022.
Online applications can be made at www.coic.org.uk/pupillage-matched-funding. To find out more please email Hayley Dawes at COIC at: hdawes@coic.org.uk
Testimonial: Devon Chambers
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