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Registered charity · Croydon

Justice Defenders

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £2.1m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief and 1 more
Where
Kenya, Uganda, The Gambia, United States
Website
www.justice-defenders.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Justice Defenders
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.1m£2.3m
  • 2023£2.9m£2.6m
  • 2022£5.1m£2.5m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.5m£1.8m
  • 2020£1.6m£1.5m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, AS FOLLOWS:THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN DEFENCELESS COMMUNITIES; ANDTHE PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY) OF:(A) LEGAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; AND(B) LEGAL SERVICESTO ENSURE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR THOSE IN DEFENCELESS COMMUNITIES."HUMAN RIGHTS" MEANS HUMAN RIGHTS AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS; AND"DEFENCELESS COMMUNITIES" MEANS A COMMUNITY AND/OR POPULATION OR CLASS OF PERSONS WHOSE ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES OR JUSTICE IS SIGNIFICANTLY IMPAIRED BY ITS LACK OF POWER, OR OF FINANCE, OR OF EDUCATION, OR ANY OTHER CONDITION WHICH DISADVANTAGES IT.

Grants received

1 grant · £2,000 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

4 trustees on the board

1.5y median 2y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 4The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 4The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 4

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 5Arts and leisure 3Business services 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.1m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.4 in 2020

32 from 36 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1121764
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 25 MAY 2007 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 22 NOVEMBER 2007 AS AMENDED ON 31 JAN 2020 AS AMENDED ON 23 DEC 2019AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 04 NOV 2021 as amended on 09 Dec 2022 as amended on 12 May 2023
Companies House
Company number 06260329 · Active
Contact on the register
02084081548 · info@justice-defenders.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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