• Raise the profile of a case: Share it online.
• Campaign: Write to your local representative to request action on protecting fair trial rights.
• Donate to our work: Fair Trials does not charge for its services and relies on your support to help hundreds of people each year. You may also wish to consider organising your own fundraising events. We are always happy to hear what people are doing to raise funds, and help out however we can. 
• Inform others: Tell colleagues, friends and family about how we work for a world where every person’s right to a fair trial is respected.

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• Sign up for our newsletters - you'll see on campaign pages opportunities to sign up for updates on specific issues to stay up to date on our latest cases and campaign work
• You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Volunteering

Like many other charities, Fair Trials draws on key support from volunteers to increase its impact. This takes many forms, from our LEAP network, to students who are able arrange internships through their institutions for academic credit. We also work closely with a number of city law firms whose staff work on different campaign areas with us. 

Please contact us if you are interested in volunteering for Fair Trials and contributing to our work, or visit the vacancies page.

Fundraising

Organising a sponsored event is a great way to help us raise money, whilst raising awareness of fair trial issues in your local community.

Fair Trials is grateful to those supporters who help us meet our fundraising challenge – it could be anything, from climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, to holding a bake sale. The sort of event you host is only limited by your imagination – so make sure it is something you will enjoy!

If you'd like to know more, then drop us an email. Here is our advice for successful fundraising:

• Set yourself a target: Come up with a figure you would like to reach and let potential sponsors know.
• Spread the word: The more people who know about what you are doing, the more sponsors you will get. Let everyone know – after all, you are doing it for a good cause.
• Be prepared: Have more information on the work of Fair Trials to give to people and also how they can get involved.
• Gift aid: If you're in the UK, make sure that your UK donors sign a gift aid declaration. This allows us to claim an extra 25p on each £1 you raise.
• Use Justgiving: The site allows people to easily and securely donate online, removing the inconvenience of collecting cash from individual sponsors. The site also automatically calculates and includes Giftaid for UK donors. Visit Fair Trials' section on Justgiving to create your own page.

We are always happy to hear what people are doing to raise funds.

Legacies

Leave a gift in your will

Since it was first established in 1992, Fair Trials has helped thousands of people imprisoned in countries across the world. We have prevented many high-profile miscarriages of justice and helped people return home to their families and loved ones.

One way to help us continue this important work for years to come is to consider leaving a gift in your will. Every legacy we receive can have a significant impact on our work, offering a lifeline to many more people.

If you are interested in leaving a lasting gift and would like to speak to someone from Fair Trials about it, please do not hesitate to be in touch. 

Our Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn channels will keep you up to date on our work and let you know how you can get involved.

You can connect with us on our social media channels to keep up to date with our latest news, advice and case studies.

Have you seen a story that you think we should care about? Then get in touch and let us know. Increasingly, as we’ve seen through movements like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter – using your voice on social media can really make a difference.

Throughout our site you’ll find links to share our stories or information to make it as easy as possible.

We don’t use our social media for any kind of direct assistance, so if you’re looking for help in your own case its better to first look through the information in our Need Help section, and if you can’t find the answers you’re looking for, then follow the prompts to get in touch with us over email.

Follow us on Twitter here.

You can also find individual staff members’ twitter accounts on their own staff pages.

Like us on Facebook here.

Connect with us on LinkedIn here.

While you’re at it, you can also subscribe to our YouTube channel here.

That’s it for now, but we’ll let you know if and when we set up a Pinterest, or go back to our MySpace.

External Evaluator to review the impact of the Legal Experts Advisory Panel Network

Fair Trials is seeking an external evaluator to review the impact of the Legal Experts Advisory Panel Network (“LEAP”) from 2014 to 2019 to help inform the future direction of LEAP.

An external consultant is sought to assess the extent to which LEAP is meeting its overall objectives (further information below) and, in particular, the extent to which LEAP has contributed towards achievement of its recommendations for the period 2014-2019, set out in its reports, Stockholm Sunset and Towards an EU Defence Rights Movement.

The aim of the evaluation is to inform LEAP strategy in the period to 2024 (i.e. the term of the new European Parliament and Commission) by better understanding where LEAP has been most and least effective over the past five years. In particular, as the Coordinator of LEAP, Fair Trials is eager to understand how we can best support and make the most of LEAP’s amazing membership.

The evaluator will be expected to draw their conclusions based on:

• Document review: Selected published LEAP materials from over the period 2014-2019 will be provide, along with working documents, project newsletters, etc;
• Survey: a questionnaire should be developed and disseminated to LEAP members;
• Interviews with key stakeholders: Interviews should be held with a select number of LEAP members, relevant Fair Trials staff, and EU stakeholders;
• Participation and Observation at the LEAP Annual Conference: The event will take place in early March 2020 and involve 2 days of meetings and discussions on key issues of EU Criminal Justice.

The evaluator will be expected to meet with Fair Trials staff members to discuss the emerging findings, to produce a short written report (up to 20 pages) and to provide comments on a draft strategy document for LEAP in the 2019-2024 period.

These activities must be completed within by 31^st March 2020. 

Download the full call for an external evaluator here.

Interested consultants are invited to submit an application, in English, to [email protected] by no later than 17.00 CET on Sunday 22 September 2019.

The application should include details of the consultant’s relevant experience (e.g. C.V.’s and details of relevant projects carried out), a proposal and timeline for how the consultant intends to carry out the research, and a proposed budget to carry out the research within the specified timeframe.