The independence movement includes many groups doing excellent work, but which are often unaware of work being carried out by others. This can lead to overlapping effort, uncertainty and, in the worst cases, conflict.

IFS seeks to help to bring together every organisation and group which aspires to independence. Our aim is to encourage collaboration, to minimise duplication, to celebrate successes and – above all – to put a focus on positive action for meaningful change.

IFS is predominantly an online group, with few fixed costs.
The small amount of funding required to date has been obtained by application to the Scottish Independence Foundation (SIF) which, like ourselves, is party politically neutral. We have never sought funding from political parties and we never will.