Finance Score: 7

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 13

Strong growth: +2
Future income +5

Overall weighted support: +13

Overall GiG Score: 20

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 £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£636	£628	£8	£0	£498	£236	4.5	13	100
31/03/22	£739	£517	£221	£0	£490	£236	5.5	10	150
31/03/21	£429	£371	£58	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20	£309	£344	£-34	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19	£184	£158	£26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18	£189	£36	£153	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17	£24	£13	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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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

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Balance Sheet History

Established: 8 years

centreforwomensjustice.org.uk

info@centreforwomensjustice.org.uk

020 7092 1807

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity

GiG Classification

Social advocacy & research

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years

The Legal Education Foundation	£369,665
Esmee Fairbairn	£355,000
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation	£90,000
Access to Justice Foundation	£42,196
AB Charitable Trust	£40,000
Indigo Trust	£30,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Centre for Women's Justice
£90,000	20/11/2023 24	Towards core funding
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
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Centre for Women's Justice
£20,000	04/07/2023	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 violence against women and girls.
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2023
£118,752	25/05/2023	A grant to Centre for Women's Justice to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 10
The Legal Education Foundation - A grant to Centre for Women's Justice
£150,000	25/05/2023	A grant to Centre for Women's Justice under the LEF's Fairer Systems programme
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 36	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 challenges and ensure access to justice for victims ....more 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 challenges and ensure access to justice for victims of ma
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 and Wales) to bring strategic law
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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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

DAVINA JAMES-HANMAN Appointed: 2022

ESOHE AGHATISE Appointed: 2018

FIONA MACKENZIE Appointed: 2019

HEATHER HARVEY Appointed: 2018

KARON MONAGHAN Appointed: 2024

SARAH CAROLINE RICCA Appointed: 2016

SASHA HELEN DEEPWELL (Chair) Appointed: 2016

SAMIRA AHMED Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Journalist

SANCHITA HOSALI Appointed: 2018

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

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from EMMA HUMPHREYS MEMORIAL PRIZE on 24/10/2024

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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