''It gave me great confidence to be able to use the weight of ELF’ '.

Action Group, Cornwall

• In 2001, the Environmental Law Foundation responded to over 700 inquiries and referred over 200 of these to our network of environmental lawyers
• Developed our unique outreach programmes supported by the Community Fund and Bridge House Estates Trust Fund providing environmental workshops, seminars and lectures across the UK and helping community groups to help themselves
• Extended the skills training programme for caseworker volunteers and interns
• Responded to consultation papers on Group Representative Claims, The London Plans on Spatial Development, Air Quality, Noise and Biodiversity, EU funding for environmental NGOs
• Held a number of events throughout the UK including environmental workshops in Belfast, Chester, Glasgow and Llandudno and London
• Organised and held a series of practitioner environmental law training seminars qualifying for CPD accreditation.
• Held the first Professor David Hall Lecture: given by Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice
• Held the second: Environmental Question Time with a key note speech by Rt Hon Michael Meacher MP
  

ELF was established in 1992 by a broad group of environmentalists, lawyers and scientists. It secured charitable status in 1995. It is based on a national network of expert environmental solicitors, barristers, consultants and academics, all committed to the Foundation’s purpose and aims and may provide free initial advice and assistance and then, if required, further support on either a free, at cost or reduced-fee rate. Since its formation, ELF has been contacted by many thousands of people experiencing a wide variety of concerns relating to their environment. It has referred over 1,300 cases to practitioner members on behalf of local communities faced with environmental problems that might not otherwise have been argued adequately or even voiced at all.

The Foundation relies on an impressive group of individuals and organisations including the Trustees, Project Team, Advisory Council, the many funding partners and all its members and friends, who together support and inform the various projects operated by the Foundation.