Student legal enterprise

I woke up early after another good night's sleep and after breakfast busied myself with recording and sound editing in preparation for uploads on the two Thursdays I'm on holiday. I was interrupted twice, once by Brian the organist at St German's, who came by to drop off some magazines about the steam railway line that runs through Watchet where we'll be holidaying. How kind of him to do this! Then a young man called on a fundraising mission, promoting an initiative called the Community Law Project.

This is a Law student driven initiative which originated in Cardiff, eighteen months ago. It was going to start locally with a physical office in Canton. Then came the pandemic, and immediately an on-line help service run by student volunteers was devised, and went viral in Law faculties around the UK. From two dozen Law students at the outset it has now risen to 250+ giving them practical experience of advocacy, litigation and negotiation, working and learning together using on-line tools and contact by telephone. It's currently is dealing with fifty five cases, and needs funding for its infrastructure and management costs.

It wounds like the kind of thing I'd like to support, but my first thought was how to introduce this project to the parish social network, not simply as a beneficiary of donations, but to advertise the website and the free legal advice it offers. There may be parishioners who would benefit from this.

I cooked lunch in time for Clare's return from her study group, then completed the sound editing begun in the morning. I walked to the bank to deposit several cheques, and then walked on into Bute Park and up the river bank to Blackweir Bridge before turning for home. The carpet of golden brown leaves under the trees is still fairly thin, the tree canopy is still mostly olive green and thick, thanks to mild weather and not much wind.

With nothing of interest worth watching on telly after supper, I want back to preparing the rest of the prayer material I needed, then recorded it. Editing can wait until tomorrow. Time for early bed.