OSCR Scottish charity profile

Institute of Conservation

Known as Icon

ActiveCharity number SC039336
Registered23 February 2008
Main locationOutwith Scotland
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC039336
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Cross Border
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
Not supplied
Staff
8
Postcode
EC1R 0NE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

3.1 To advance the education of the public by research into and the promotion of the conservation of items and collections of items of cultural, aesthetic, historic and scientific value. 3.2 To preserve and conserve items and collections of items of cultural, aesthetic, historic and scientific value.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£846,800£866,721822 December 2025
31 March 2024£693,068£748,203818 December 2024
31 March 2023£696,048£741,468811 December 2023
31 March 2022£782,222£738,00582 March 2023
31 March 2021£763,286£730,399829 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
Institute of Conservation, Studio 32, FBC Clerkenwell, 40 Bowling Green Lane, London
Website supplied to OSCR
www.icon.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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