CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S JUSTICE

Registered charity 1169213 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CWJ

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

Objects

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.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £188,598 for the year ended 31 March 2025, increasing its total reserves to £680,353. The trustees confirm that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, although they note that the lack of regular, secured income makes long-term planning difficult.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ellis Lloyd Jones Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Centre for Women's Justice (matched by registered charity number).

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (78% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SASHA HELEN DEEPWELLchair
• Davina James-Hanman
• Esohe Aghatise
• Karon Monaghan
• Samira Ahmed · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sanchita Fay Hosali
• Sarah Ricca
• Sonia Sodha · trustee of 1 other charity
• Yasmin Rehman

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RIGHTS OF WOMEN INCORPORATED.

• RIGHTS OF WOMEN INCORPORATED income £1.2m
• TOGETHER WOMEN PROJECTS (YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE) income £3.7m
• WOMEN IN PRISON LIMITED income £4.0m
• WEST END WOMEN AND GIRLS CENTRE CIO income £441k
• THE WOMEN & FAMILIES RESOURCE CENTRE income £85k
• FAIR TREATMENT FOR THE WOMEN OF WALES income £211k

Side by side with its peers

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