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Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 15
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
    • Grant maker support: +15
    Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

    CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S JUSTICE 

    The Centre for Women's Justice aims to advance the human rights of women and girls in England and Wales by- holding the state to account for failures in the prevention of violence against women and girls and - challenging discrimination against women within the criminal justice system
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    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
    • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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    Income & Spending ?
    Sources of Income ?
    Y/E Income
    £k    		 Spending
    £k    		 Surplus/
    Deficit    		 Fundraising
    Cost £k    		 Total
    Funds £k    		 Unrestricted
    Funds £k    		 Mths
    Rsrvs    		 Staff Volun-
    teers
    31/03/23£636£628£8£0£498£2364.513100
    31/03/22£739£517£221£0£490£2365.510150
    31/03/21£429£371£58n/an/an/an/an/a150
    31/03/20£309£344£-34n/an/an/an/an/a100
    31/03/19£184£158£26n/an/an/an/an/a16
    31/03/18£189£36£153£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£24£13£11£0£0£0n/a00
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    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
    Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 7%
    Liabilities/Income: 6%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 47%
    Reserves/Spending: 4.5 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
    Quick Ratio: 9.4
    Asset Split ?
    Established: 8 years

    centreforwomensjustice.org.uk

    info@centreforwomensjustice.org.uk

    020 7092 1807

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    UN SDGs
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    Listed activities
    • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
    GiG Classification
    • Services for females
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    Where it operates
    • Throughout England And Wales,
    Who it helps
    • Other Defined Groups
    Who works here?
    • 13 employees
    • 100 volunteers

    Who's supporting them? ?

    Donations from Grant Makers ?

    We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    Esmee Fairbairn£355,000
    The Legal Education Foundation£100,913
    Access to Justice Foundation£42,196
    Indigo Trust£30,000
    AB Charitable Trust£20,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months    		 To be used for
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Centre for Women's Justice
    £200,000 01/11/2023
    Towards unrestricted core costs to challenge discrimination in the criminal justice system around male violence against women and girls
    Indigo Trust - Unrestricted funding for CWJ's work
    £30,000 24/08/2023
    Centre for Women's Justice unrestricted funding
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Centre for Women's Justice
    £5,000 30/01/2023
    Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
    Access to Justice Foundation - Community Justice Fund Wave Three
    £12,196 22/11/2022
    Wave three of the Community Justice Fund aims to support organisations delivering social welfare advice services to people most impacted by the cost-of-living crisis.
    AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Centre for Women's Justice
    £20,000 21/04/2022
    An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Centre for Women’s Justice works to hold the state to account and challenge discrimination in the justice system around male violence against women and girls.
    The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2021
    £100,913 24/03/2021
    A grant to Centre for Women's Justice to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 8.
    Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
    £30,000 16/07/2020
    A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Centre for Women's Justice
    £150,000 17/06/2020
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    Towards work to hold the state to account and challenge discrimination in the criminal justice system around violence towards women and girls.
    The Baring Foundation - Grant to Centre for Women's Justice
    £100,000 11/12/2018
    To bring together specialist lawyers, academics and other experts with those working on the frontline as activists, survivors and service providers (across England and Wales) to bring strategic law ....more
    The Baring Foundation - Grant to Centre for Women's Justice
    £50,000 16/05/2017
    The Centre for Women's Justice aims to bring together specialist lawyers, academics and other experts with those working on the frontline as activists, survivors and service providers (across England ....more
    The Baring Foundation - Grant to Centre for Women's Justice
    £30,000 10/02/2016
    A new project designed to develop initiatives in the use of human rights orientated law to challenge violence against women.
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (9)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/09/2016, number: 1169213
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Complaints handling
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • Conflicting interests
    • Financial reserves policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Internal risk management policy and procedures
    • Paying staff
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
    • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
    • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    7 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Centre for Women's Justice
    Oxford House
    Derbyshire Street
    LONDON
    E2 6HG

    Objectives

    TO ADVANCE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN ENGLAND AND WALES (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) BY: SEEKING TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS AND PROTECT THOSE RIGHTS WHICH ARE ADVERSELY IMPACTED BY VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS; AND THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

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