Diversity Data
The Board of Trustees
As of September 2025, our board is comprises 8 trustees. All trustees disclosed their ethnicity and the results can be seen below
CWJ Employees
In February 2025, we had a total of 16 employees. ‘Employees’ includes anyone on the CWJ payroll including fixed-term contracts but does not include individuals employed on a consultancy basis. All 16 employees disclosed their ethnicity and the results are below.
Ethnicity Pay Gap
The ethnicity pay gap shows the disparity in the average wage between Black, Asian and minoritised staff and staff members from a non-minoritised white ethnic background. The pay gap is expressed as a percentage.
As CWJ is a small organisation we use mean (or average) figures which are calculated by dividing the team’s total salary by the number of employees.
‘Employees’ includes anyone on the CWJ payroll including fixed-term contracts but does not include the CEO or individuals employed on a consultancy basis.
The pay gap for staff employed at December 2025 (a total of 16 employees) was 8.3%. This signifies that Black and Asian employees working within CWJ in 2025 were on average paid 8.3% less than White employees.
Recruitment
For roles advertised Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 (12 months), 71 applicants disclosed their ethnicity. Please note that applications for the Internship for Black and Minoritised women are not included here.
Disability
Are you a person living with a disability? Definition of disability under the Equality Act 2010: You’re disabled if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
CWJ Legal Mentors
In the 2025 cohort, 19 solicitors and 11 barristers are on our mentor panel, providing mentoring for Black, Asian and minoritised women seeking pupillages at the bar or solicitor training contracts.
Who Does CWJ Help?
The majority of the women we assist come to us through frontline services for example Women’s Aid, Rape Crisis, Southall Black Sisters and many more.
During 2024 we received 340 enquiries of this type but only received disclosure of ethnicity from 208 of those people we assisted.