01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC046557
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Cross Border
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- UK and overseas
- Volunteers
- Not supplied
- Staff
- 53
- Postcode
- SW1P 3AY
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of health
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- 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
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
(1) The Company's objects are: (a) to promote research into (and the publication of the useful results thereof) and the education of the public in the economic, social and political sciences and in science and technology, the voluntary sector and social enterprise, public services, and industry and commerce. (b) to advance the voluntary sector and the efficiency of public services which serve (or further) a charitable purpose. (c) to advance physical and mental health. (d) to relieve poverty, unemployment, or those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. (e) to advance environmental protection or improvement and sustainable development. (f) to advance the arts, culture, heritage or science. and (g) to advance such other exclusively charitable purposes as the Trustees in their absolute discretion determine.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 December 2024 | £4,682,349 | £4,454,065 | 53 | 25 September 2025 |
| 31 December 2023 | £4,257,469 | £4,239,690 | 53 | 30 September 2024 |
| 31 December 2022 | £3,429,972 | £3,425,774 | 53 | 6 October 2023 |
| 31 December 2021 | £2,741,065 | £2,727,977 | 53 | 30 September 2022 |
| 31 December 2020 | £2,537,933 | £2,502,572 | 53 | 29 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
- 8 Storey's Gate, London, London
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.ippr.org
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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