Iranian Association

The Iranian Association (IA) was established as a registered charity in 1985 and was initially known as West London Iranian Association. The IA has been a resilient organisation and has always embraced organisational development; for example, the service delivery was transformed to benefit all the ethnic groups over a decade ago. The IA has been a pioneer in service development and delivery, offering online courses in the early 21st century, delivering embedded learning a long time before the implementation of the idea by the mainstream colleges, operating one of the first Life in the UK test centres and ESOL for Citizenship courses in Britain, delivering the NHS Health Trainer service for the first time in Hammersmith and Fulham and initiating the community oral history projects.

Over the last three decades the IA has been supported by a wide range of agencies, including the government departments, local authorities, NHS, EU, Colleges and Grant making trusts.