OSCR Scottish charity profile

Institute for Public Policy Research

ActiveCharity number SC046557
Registered13 May 2016
Main locationOutwith Scotland
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
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

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£4,682,349£4,454,0655325 September 2025
31 December 2023£4,257,469£4,239,6905330 September 2024
31 December 2022£3,429,972£3,425,774536 October 2023
31 December 2021£2,741,065£2,727,9775330 September 2022
31 December 2020£2,537,933£2,502,5725329 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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