About
The Centre for Social Justice is an independent think tank established by Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP in 2004 to seek effective solutions to the poverty that blight parts of Britain.
Our Mission
To put social justice at the heart of British politics and to build an alliance of poverty fighting organisations in order to see a reversal of social breakdown in the UK.
What we do
The CSJ highlights the work of profoundly differing and unique small voluntary organisations and charities. These groups provide welfare in the most broken parts of British society.
We champion their local, voluntary and effective work through:
- an Alliance of poverty fighting organisations,
- a national annual Awards programme, and
- seminars for the voluntary sector, media and politicians.
In addition, we conduct policy research that combines data, anecdotal evidence and polling. Through this we seek to gain an accurate picture of poverty in Britain, its causes and consequences, and to define the role the state and other players can and can’t play in its reduction.
You can get involved by:
- Signing up to our regular email newsletter
- Donating to the work of the Centre for Social Justice
"It has been said that there is hardly a social problem in Britain that isn’t being solved by someone, somewhere. Hope is being restored in some of our country’s most disadvantaged communities by people unwilling to tolerate the failed methods of the past.
Community entrepreneurs are overcoming the social challenges that are defeating the agencies of the state. The war on poverty can be won if government gets off the back of the armies of compassion and helps them to succeed."
Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Founder and Patron of the CSJ
