How we help

The Kalisher Trust is a legal charity which helps, encourages and inspires young people to achieve their potential through the development of positive advocacy skills; and supports those who aspire to become criminal barristers.  We run an extensive programme, which includes a dedicated education arm.

We seek young people of exceptional talent and modest means, no matter what their social or ethnic background. Since our inception in 1996 we have helped hundreds of youngsters, from those taking GCSEs to young barristers, as they work toward success in this most demanding profession.

We help in numerous ways; by offering University scholarships at Masters level; the opportunity to become the Old Bailey apprentice; legal internships at some of the legal world’s most prestigious organisations; an essay prize; and an intensive advocacy course which pushes and polishes to world class standards.

Our education outreach team provides bespoke educational experiences to schools; teaching and mentoring teenagers as they make the leap from school to university and beyond.  The education team works to demystify the world and work of barristers; helps, encourages and inspires young people to achieve their potential through the development of positive advocacy skills; and supports learning in schools about Citizenship and the Law from Y9 to Y13.  The Trust encourages and supports young people who would not otherwise be able to afford to pursue a career at the criminal bar; helps broaden the social and ethnic representation of the criminal bar by supporting able young people from disadvantaged backgrounds; and encourages and supports young barristers to help them develop sustainable and successful careers at the criminal bar.