01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC022504
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- More than one local authority area in Scotland
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 36
- Postcode
- IV17 0XS
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
ILM Highland was founded in 1994 to provide support and advice to vulnerable people in our community, enabling them to maintain a higher level of independence and a better quality of life. We support our community through our home improvement services, providing free access to specialist tradespeople and advisers to the elderly and those living with a disability – giving them a greater sense of freedom to make homecare decisions that will have a positive impact on their day-to-day lives. Since our beginnings in Easter Ross, we now boast 30 full time staff and a team of volunteers delivering our services throughout the North of Scotland, across the Highlands, Ross-shire, Sutherland, Lochaber, Caithness, Skye and Lochalsh, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Moray. In addition, we provide an electrical waste recycling and reuse service for the Highland area, collecting household and business electrical and electronic equipment to be disposed of responsibly..
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- Older People
- People with disabilities or health problems
- Other defined groups
Activities
- It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
The company’s objects are: (1) To relieve poverty, and in particular (but without limitation) to provide relief from (a) the problems of poverty associated with dilapidated and dirty common areas and facilities and (b) the problems of poverty caused by the effects of cold, badly insulated and draughty housing and shortage of money to meet fuel costs. (2) To relieve the needs of persons suffering from mental or physical disability, illness or impairment or old age and, in particular (but without limitation) to assist elderly, disabled and infirm householders to care for, repair, maintain, adapt, modify and improve their homes and ancillary garden and common areas. (3) To advance the education and to promote and/or provide training in skills of all kinds. (4) To promote and preserve the environment, and in particular to assist in the adoption of practices which are directed towards reducing unnecessary depletion of natural resources and/or reducing the volume of non-recycled waste. (5) To preserve, conserve, restore and improve the environment, in particular (but without limitation) through the planting of trees and the execution of other landscaping works in the interests of public amenity on waste grounds and on areas which are in need of improvement and through the construction, repair and/or maintenance of footpaths, dykes, cycleways, seashore, and riverside areas and recreational play areas. (6) To promote, establish operate and/or support other projects and programmes of a charitable nature.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £1,870,135 | £1,769,556 | 36 | 11 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £1,810,082 | £1,669,320 | 36 | 10 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £1,605,871 | £1,525,637 | 36 | 22 November 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £1,531,742 | £1,333,386 | 36 | 22 November 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £1,369,776 | £1,262,091 | 36 | 14 December 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
- Unit 1G, Teaninich Industrial Estate, Alness, Ross-Shire
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.ilmhighland.co.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
No direct external links on this profile. The official OSCR record and source documentation are available through BritDB’s dedicated source page.
05 Provenance
Source for this profile
© Crown Copyright and database right 2026. Contains information from the Scottish Charity Register supplied by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. BritDB is an independent service and does not claim to be the Scottish Charity Register.