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BBC Children in Need

Also known as: Children in Need

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC039557
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed March 2, 2026. Filing history
Registered
May 8, 2008
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Address
BBC Children In Need
4th Floor
Dock House
Media City UK
Salford
M50 2LH

Contact

Activities

'It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations','It carries out activities or services itself'

'the prevention or relief of poverty','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people','Other charities or voluntary bodies'

Objectives: The Charity's objects are to further such exclusively charitable objects and purposes in any part of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man as the Trustees think fit and in particular to advance life and help children and young people, in particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) through the relief of need, hardship, ill-health, disability and distress.

Geography

Main operating location
Outwith Scotland
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure Employees
June 30, 2025 March 2, 2026On time £61,012,000 £53,623,000 156
June 30, 2024 Feb. 7, 2025On time £54,912,249 £49,240,729 152
June 30, 2023 Jan. 24, 2024On time £50,078,000 £39,823,000 153
June 30, 2022 Feb. 15, 2023On time £69,928,962 £74,523,835 150
June 30, 2021 Dec. 17, 2021On time £65,569,253 £59,548,901 142

Due dates are 9 months after the year end, OSCR's deadline, so they don't allow for any extension OSCR has granted.