INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH

Registered charity 800065 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q16994949 · Wikipedia · also known as I P P R · also registered in Scotland as SC046557 (OSCR)

IPPR produces cutting edge research and innovative policy ideas for a more just, democratic and sustainable world. Through independent research and analysis we define new agendas for change and provide practical solutions to challenges across public policy issues. Our research uses a wide range of methods and draws on the expertise of academics, practitioners, and the general public.

Objects

(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.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £3.2 million at year-end, which exceeds the trustees' policy target of four to five months of operating expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus for the year and confirmed it is prepared on a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future. The auditor issued an unqualified opinion on the financial statements.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) Young Professionals Programme 2026/2027 for young Kenyans opportunitiesforafricans.com · 08/04/2026
• [Withdrawn] Operational compliance case: The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) gov.uk · 16/12/2014
• Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) labourlist.org · 18/01/2010

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Harry Quilter-Pinner — Executive director (source)
• Emma Norris — Deputy director (source)
• David Wastell — Director of news and communications (source)
• Zoë Billingham — Director of IPPR North (source)
• Stephen Boyd — Director of IPPR Scotland (source)
• Kinga Simony — Director of finance and operations (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lord Victor Olufemi Adebowalechair
• Baroness Ayesha Hazarika
• Boaz Moselle
• Jahangir Alom
• Lib Peck · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebecca Bunce
• Simon James Steeden
• William Somerville

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH.

• THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH income £201k
• THE INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH POLICY RESEARCH income £897k
• PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED income £176k
• THE INSTITUTE FOR WAR AND PEACE REPORTING (IWPR) income £6.9m
• CENTRE FOR BRITISH PROGRESS income £1.8m
• INDUSTRY AND PARLIAMENT TRUST income £945k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.