Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 1

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: 5

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE COUNCIL LIMITED

RJC promotes restorative justice as a means of resolving conflict and promoting reconciliation in the criminal justice system, schools and workplace and elsewhere in the community in situations here conflict may arise. RJC develops and promotes agreed standards and principles for evaluating and guiding restorative practice and advances and publicises education and research on restorative justice.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 21 years
(23 years as a company)

www.restorativejustice.org.uk

enquiries@restorativejustice.org.uk

0203 5815717

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Financial Data ?

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		£111	£218	£-107	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/22		£111	£127	£-15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/21		£162	£80	£82	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/20		£78	£113	£-35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/19		£146	£178	£-32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/18		£225	£257	£-32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£650	£589	£61	£0	£254	£236	4.8	13	0
31/03/16		£1,181	£1,148	£33	£0	£193	£175	1.8	17	0
31/03/15		£1,096	£1,168	£-71	£19	£160	£118	1.2	13	0
31/03/14		£669	£896	£-227	£18	£231	£148	2	9	0
31/03/13		£638	£272	£366	£10	£458	£57	2.5	5	0
31/03/12		£235	£224	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£182	£145	£37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£147	£109	£39	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£198	£199	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08?	*	£134	£145	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06		£65	£111	£-45	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£166	£119	£47	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04		£74	£97	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Other Charitable Purposes

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
1 volunteer

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Ministry of Justice - Restorative Justice
£32,500	01/04/2018	To support work on the Restorative Service Quality Mark and Training Provider Quality Mark
Ministry of Justice - Restorative Justice
£100,000	01/04/2017	To support and improve the delivery of quality restorative justice services.
Ministry of Justice - Restorative justice
£479,000	01/04/2016 12	To develop provision of capacity and capability building of restorative justice across the criminal justice system and to raise awareness of restorative justice
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Restorative justice for BAME young offenders
£44,000	23/01/2016 8	To examine and improve the use of restorative justice for BAME young people who have committed crime
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Making restorative justice work for female offenders
£40,000	25/03/2015 11	To research the current use of restorative justice with women offenders, and to make practical recommendations to increase its use with a gender-specific approach
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Developing Restorative Justice with Young Adults
£29,670	14/05/2012	Developing Restorative Justice with Young Adults
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Restorative Justice Council
£120,000	09/05/2012	Towards core costs to support the organisation to bring restorative justice practice into the mainstream of the criminal justice system and provide training and resources to its membership.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Restorative Justice Council
£50,000	11/11/2009 24	Towards Unrestricted core costs Towards the core costs of an organisation that lobbies for and supports alternatives to custody in the criminal justice system

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How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 9/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 36-68

DEBBIE WATTERS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Executive

DR ANAMIKA TWYMAN-GHOSHAL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Senior Lecturer In Criminalogy

DR JONATHAN PAUL HOBSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: University Academic

GIFFORD SUTHERLAND Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chief Executive

HARDYAL DHINDSA Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Pcc

JANET CLARK Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Training Consultant

KIRA LE-BOTOS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Restorative Justice Worker

PHILIP ANTHONY CAWLEY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Restorative Justice Promoter

REBECCA BEARD Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Manager

REBECCA RUSHTON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Restorative Justice Coordinator

SARAH LOUISE CAIRNS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Practice Development Coordinator

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/06/2003, number: 1097969
Registered at Companies House on 12/04/2001, number: 04199237

Gift Aid

NOT 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
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR08: 1 days late,

Main office

Restorative Justice Council
Rouen House
Rouen Road
Norwich
Norfolk
NR1 1RB

Objectives

TO PROMOTE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS A MEANS OF RESOLVING CONFLICT AND PROMOTING RECONCILIATION BY(1) PROMOTING THE USE OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, IN SCHOOLS, IN THE WORKPLACE AND ELSEWHERE IN THE COMMUNITY IN SITUATIONS WHERE CONFLICT MAY ARISE (2) DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING AGREED STANDARDS AND PRINCIPLES FOR EVALUATING AND GUIDING RESTORATIVE PRACTICE(3) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ON RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

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