Centre for Social Justice

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) was established as an independent think-tank in 2004 to put social justice at the heart of British politics and make policy recommendations to tackle the root causes of poverty.

In 2020 funding from the Randal Charitable Foundation to the CSJ helped secure an extra £80 million for drug treatment services in England. The extra funding was used as part of the Government’s efforts to cut crime and led to more places for people released from prison and convicted criminals handed community sentences. Read more here. 

A further significant grant was provided in 2022 towards the formation of a detailed policy report at the CSJ’s Criminal Justice Policy Unit. This aims to deliver case studies, significant insights into the experience of prisoners, expert evidence from partners at roundtables, and concrete and practical policy recommendations for meaningful employment for prisoners across the UK. In the same year the Foundation also joined the CSJ's Founders Club, which is providing support to grassroots charities across the UK. 

The Foundation's work with the CSJ particularly focusses on addiction, which the CSJ says remains a shocking feature of life in many disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The organisation acknowledges that it can shred the fabric of society, lead to family breakdown, ruin childhoods and can lead to welfare dependency, and interaction with the criminal justice system.

The CSJ’s ambition is to tackle the root causes of this problem by undertaking research and developing policies that help to prevent addiction and support those suffering from addictions into recovery.

The Randal Charitable Foundation is passionate about the relief of sickness and preservation and protection of good health, in particular the treatment of addiction linked to alcohol, drugs and gambling in the UK.