OSCR Scottish charity profile

Iona Community

ActiveCharity number SC003794
Registered18 June 1992
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC003794
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
51-100 volunteers
Staff
37
Postcode
G51 4XS

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Iona Community is an international, ecumenical Christian movement working for justice and peace, the rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship. Our Strategic Goals to achieve this are as follows 1. Community Empowerment - Empower more people to be agents for community transformation . 2: Justice and Peace - Harness and increase the power of communal action in justice and peace advocacy work. 3: Care for Creation - Integrate more environmentally sustainable policies, procedures and practices into all aspects of the life of the Iona Community . 4: Youth at the Heart - Increase the number and quality of spaces where people of all ages are welcomed. 5: Sustainable Resources - Build systems to become a financially sustainable and increasingly resilient organisation

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation
  • the promotion of religious or racial harmony
  • the promotion of equality and diversity
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The objects for which the Community is established are:- (i) To receive and take over the assets and liabilities of the unincorporated body known as The Iona Community and of The Iona Community Fund administered by the Scheme of Administration dated Third, Fourteenth and Fifteenth November Nineteen hundred and thirty nine and referred to in the Declaration of Trust by The Reverend George Fielden Macleod and Others dated the Sixteenth and registered in the Books of Council and Session on the Twenty second both days of March Nineteen hundred and fifty one. (ii) The establishment of new forms of christian worship, witness, prophecy, mission and service particularly but not exclusively for urban situations. (iii) The training of adults, lay and clerical, for the mission of the church today and in particular the organising, staffing and administration of such work on Iona, the remainder of the UK and overseas, in accordance with the religious principles and teachings of the Iona Community. (iv) Work amongst young people on Iona, Mull and the remainder of the U.K. and in particular the organising, staffing and administration of centres under the auspices and in accordance with the religious principles and teachings of the Iona Community.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£2,067,628£2,396,8573717 September 2025
31 December 2023£1,824,474£2,176,078373 September 2024
31 December 2022£2,024,011£1,698,4283714 September 2023
31 December 2021£1,499,632£1,387,372375 October 2022
31 December 2020£1,133,965£1,532,8603729 September 2021

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Suite 9 Fairfield, 1048 Govan Road, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
www.iona.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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