THE CENTRE FOR CRIME AND JUSTICE STUDIES (ISTD)

Registered charity 251588 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5062390 · Wikipedia · also known as CCJS, THE CENTRE FOR CRIME AND JUSTICE STUDIES

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is an independent educational charity that advances public understanding of crime and criminal justice. Through partnership and coalition-building, advocacy and research, we work to inspire social justice solutions to the problems society faces, so that many responses that criminalise and punish are no longer required.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, AND IN PARTICULAR OF THOSE ENGAGED IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND THE TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS, IN THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF DELINQUENCY AND CRIME, THE TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS AND THE PRINCIPLES AND OPERATION OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROCESS BOTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £23,559 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income increasing to £530,879. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £123,941, which is slightly below the stated policy target of £126,800 equivalent to three months' overhead expenditure. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern and noted no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

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 Crime and Justice Studies (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

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: Charitable activities (54% 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: 7.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PROFESSOR ELAINE PLAYERchair
• Antonia Delgado
• Bronwen Frow-Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Richards
• Paul Henry Weatherstone
• Ruth Bloomfield

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT STUDIES.

• INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT STUDIES income £4.1m
• THE CENTRE FOR JUSTICE INNOVATION UK income £1.6m
• USER VOICE income £784k
• JUSTICE income £1.7m
• THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH income £3.3m
• BRITISH SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY income £92k

Side by side with its peers

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