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Description
BBC Media Action uses media and communication to reduce poverty and promote human rights, thereby enabling people to build better lives. We work in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Central Asia. We have three main thematic areas: health, governance and humanitarian, and two subsidiary areas: education/livelihoods and climate.
Also known as
- BBC Media Action
- BBC Media Action
- The BBC World Service Training Trust
- The BBC World Service Trust
- BBC WST
- BBC World Service Trust
CCEW Charity number
Company number
Registered
Postcode
W1A 1AA
Website
Domain
bbc.co.uk
Latest income
£34,969,000 (on )
This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.
More about this organisation
Find that Charity is not responsible for the content of external websites
- bbcmediaaction.org
- Charity Commission England and Wales
- CharityBase
- Giving is Great
- Companies House
- Opencorporates
- Wikipedia: BBC Media Action
Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia links from Wikidata
Depending on the data source, location may describe the headquarters of the organisation rather than the area it operates in.
Area of operation outside the UK
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- China
- Algeria
- Estonia
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Indonesia
- India
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Cambodia
- Liberia
- Libya
- North Macedonia
- Myanmar
- Nigeria
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Sudan
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- Ukraine
- Viet Nam
- Zambia
Registered Office in the UK
This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 2 active records and 0 inactive records, from 2 data sources.
What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.
Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.
Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.
GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 1076235 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.
BBC Media Action (this record)
This organisation has been classified using different categories:
International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)
ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.
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Performing and visual arts
A11
UK Charity Activity Tags
These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.
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Education
ED -
Health
HE -
Society
SO» Human rightsSO105 -
Social welfare
SW» Individual povertySW105
Theme (CCEW)
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Education/training
102 -
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
103 -
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
105 -
Overseas Aid/famine Relief
106
Beneficiaries (CCEW)
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The General Public/mankind
207
Activities (CCEW)
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Provides Human Resources
304 -
Provides Services
306 -
Provides Advocacy/advice/information
307 -
Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
308
Scale of operation
- Overseas
| Year ending | Income (£) | Spending (£) |
|---|---|---|
| 1999-06-23 |
Registered as a charity |
|
| 2004-03-31 | 10,303,548 | 10,049,350 |
| 2005-03-31 | 13,396,080 | 13,148,417 |
| 2006-03-31 | 16,758,014 | 16,397,729 |
| 2007-03-31 | 17,624,452 | 18,008,200 |
| 2008-03-31 | 17,945,733 | 18,336,163 |
| 2009-03-31 | 20,871,000 | 20,279,000 |
| 2010-03-31 | 28,204,000 | 27,058,000 |
| 2011-03-31 | 24,768,000 | 24,466,000 |
| 2012-03-31 | 29,483,000 | 28,679,000 |
| 2013-03-31 | 39,977,000 | 38,788,000 |
| 2014-03-31 | 40,381,000 | 40,094,000 |
| 2015-03-31 | 47,435,000 | 46,907,000 |
| 2016-03-31 | 45,278,000 | 43,953,000 |
| 2017-03-31 | 44,151,000 | 43,763,000 |
| 2018-03-31 | 35,389,699 | 35,928,170 |
| 2019-03-31 | 37,682,000 | 38,648,000 |
| 2020-03-31 | 40,809,000 | 41,714,000 |
| 2021-03-31 | 39,949,000 | 40,028,000 |
| 2022-03-31 | 34,229,000 | 34,514,000 |
| 2023-03-31 | 34,969,000 | 35,823,000 |
Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Employees | 531 | 561 |
| Employees paid more than £60,000 | 28 | 26 |
| Volunteers | - | - |
| Trustees | 12 |
Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
Statement of financial activities for year ended .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £m |
2022
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Incoming resources | ||
| Donations and other voluntary income | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| Legacies | - | - |
| Endowments | - | - |
| Donations and legacies | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| Income from charitable activities | 33.9 | 33.4 |
| Income from other trading activities | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Income from investments | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Other income | - | - |
| Total | 35.0 | 34.2 |
| Expenditure | ||
| Investment management | - | - |
| Other spending on raising funds | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Spending on raising funds | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Grants to institutions | - | - |
| Other charitable activities | 35.6 | 34.3 |
| Charitable activities | 35.6 | 34.3 |
| Other spending | - | - |
| Total | 35.8 | 34.5 |
| Net income / (expenditure) | (0.9) | (0.3) |
Balance sheet at .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £m |
2022
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Fixed assets | ||
| Tangible and intangible assets | - | - |
| Investment assets | - | - |
| - | - | |
| Current assets | ||
| Current investment assets | - | - |
| Cash | 4.3 | 7.6 |
| Other current assets | 6.0 | 6.2 |
| 10.3 | 13.8 | |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due within one year | (6.7) | (9.0) |
| Net current assets | 3.6 | 4.7 |
| Total assets less current liabilities | 3.6 | 4.7 |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due after one year | (0.3) | (0.6) |
| Net assets | 3.3 | 4.2 |
| Funds | ||
| Endowment funds | - | - |
| Restricted funds | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Unrestricted funds | 3.3 | 4.1 |
| 3.3 | 4.2 | |
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Contracts with government | ||
| Income from government contracts | 1,723,000 | 4,532,000 |
| Government contracts as % of total income | 4.9% | 13.2% |
| Number of government contracts | 3 | 9 |
| Government grants | ||
| Income from government grants | 6,149,000 | 6,840,000 |
| Government grants as % of total income | 17.6% | 20.0% |
| Number of government grants | 17 | 27 |
View this organisation's grants on GrantNav.
| Date | Funder | Amount awarded | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Delivering ambition of the United Nations Secretary General?s Climate Summit 2019 to build resilience to climate change |
£8,212 | COP26 Glasgow - Building a Climate Resilient Future Event | ||
|
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Somalia Forward, Stable Settlements & Fair Power |
£223,817 | BBC Media Action in support for Covid -19 response in Somalia | ||
|
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Protecting Media Freedom |
£2,812,215 | Independent media development - PRIMED consortium | ||
|
Comic Relief
Fighting Malaria, Improving Health |
£1,086,241
2 years |
Communication for Healthy Behaviour, Achieving Reduced Malaria (CHARM)
Oct 2017 to Apr 2021 |
||
|
Nesta
Digital Innovation Fund for the Arts in Wales |
£10,500
3 months |
AC00588
Dec 2016 to Mar 2017 |
||
|
Comic Relief
Queen's Young Leaders |
£255,834
11 months |
Mi Stori
Nov 2016 to Mar 2018 |
||
|
The National Lottery Community Fund
International Grants |
£364,758
3 years |
In Touch for China
Dec 2005 to Dec 2008 |
Data source
Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.
- Cabinet Office (3 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Comic Relief (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Nesta (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Community Fund (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
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