Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Independent Academic Research Studies |
| Acronym: |
IARS
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| Legal status: |
Charity
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| Website address: |
http://www.iars.org.uk
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Sections
| Section: |
IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions |
| and more precisely: |
Think tanks and research institutions |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Theo Gavrielides
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| Position: |
Executive Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Atinuke Olanrewaju
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| Position: |
Finance and Grant Manager |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
159 Clapham Road
London SW9 0PU
UNITED KINGDOM
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| Telephone number: |
(+0044) 020 7820 0945 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
contact@iars.org.uk
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
IARS is an independent, youth-led, social policy think-tank that was set up in 2001 by young people to empower their peers, especially those who are marginalised, so that they acquire a voice in society and engage with decision making structures and services as equal citizens.
Through the provision of high quality volunteering opportunities, youth-led work placements, training, skills-development programmes, accreditation, peer mentoring and research, IARS young people learn to inform and indeed influence practices that affect them at local, regional, national and international levels. Through a youth-led structure, young people from all walks of life learn to influence decision making, policies and the law and as role models participate in society and support their peers and youth-led organisations and groups in creating a tolerant and equal society where young people are respected and valued. IARS is unique in its structure and the only youth-led social policy think-tank in the UK.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
10
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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IARS is an independent, youth-led, social policy think-tank that was set up in 2001 by young people to empower their peers, especially those who are marginalised, so that they acquire a voice in society and engage with decision making structures and services as equal citizens.
Through the provision of high quality volunteering opportunities, youth-led work placements, training, skills-development programmes, accreditation, peer mentoring and research, IARS young people learn to inform and indeed influence practices that affect them at local, regional, national and international levels. Through a youth-led structure, young people from all walks of life learn to influence decision making, policies and the law and as role models participate in society and support their peers and youth-led organisations and groups in creating a tolerant and equal society where young people are respected and valued. IARS is unique in its structure and the only youth-led social policy think-tank in the UK.
We believe in the value of the youth-led sector, and provide representation of the issues affecting it. For further information you can view our Vision & Strategic Aims as well as our Mission & Values
IARS' objectives state that the charity "is set up to promote the development of young people as individuals and members of society by:
* providing training guidance and support to enable those young people to undertake research, study or other activities to investigate the issues which affect them and;
* encouraging young people to use the useful results of that research and learning to increase awareness and understanding of the issues which affect them amongst child and young people welfare professionals, service providers and the public" (IARS Memorandum of Association).
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Culture
- Education
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Home Affairs
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
- Regional Policy
- Youth
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
400 |
| Number of member organisations: |
0 |
| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- AUSTRIA
- BELGIUM
- CYPRUS
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- ESTONIA
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- GERMANY
- GREECE
- HUNGARY
- IRELAND
- ITALY
- LITUANIA
- NETHERLANDS
- PORTUGAL
- SPAIN
- SWEDEN
- UNITED KINGDOM
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Complementary information:
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
03/2011
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03/2012
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Total budget:
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341,831
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€
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of which public financing:
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341,831
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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€
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- Grants:
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70,273
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€
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- from national sources:
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271,558
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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€
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from other sources: |
0
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€
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- donations:
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0
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€
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- contributions from members:
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0
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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300000
€ - 350000
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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