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BBC Media Action

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £33m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Where
Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Cambodia and more
Website
www.bbcmediaaction.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
BBC Media Action
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£33m£33m
  • 2024£32m£34m
  • 2023£35m£36m
Earlier years
  • 2022£34m£35m
  • 2021£40m£40m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 11% · Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF JOURNALISTS AND ALL OTHERS ENGAGED IN THE BROADCAST MEDIA IN THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF JOURNALISM, PROGRAMME PRODUCTION, BROADCASTING AND RELATED MEDIA SKILLS INCLUDING ETHICS AND CODES OF CONDUCT, TECHNICAL PRESENTATION AND WRITING SKILLS, INCLUDING ETHICS AND CODES OF CONDUCT, TECHNICAL PRESENTATION AND WRITING SKILLS, INTERVIEWING TECHNIQUES, PRESS AND NEWS CONFERENCES, RELEVANT LAW AND NEWSROOM ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES SO AS TO PROMOTE HIGH STANDARDS OF BALANCE, FAIRNESS, INTEGRITY AND PROFESSIONALISM; AND 2. THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES INCLUDING HEALTH, LAW, SOCIAL POLICY, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, HISTORY, POLITICS, ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, LANGUAGES, AND IN THE AVAILABILITY OF EDUCATION, AND IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PRODUCTION AND BROADCASTING AND OTHER DISSEMINATION OF EDUCATIONAL FILMS AND RADIO AND TELEVISION PROGRAMMES AND THE PUBLICATION OF OTHER EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Grants received

6 grants · £4,751,077 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · £3,044,244 (3 grants)
  • Comic Relief · £1,342,075 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £364,758

Most recent

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £8,2122021-04-01
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £223,8172020-04-01
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £2,812,2152019-04-01
  • Comic Relief £1,086,2412017-07-19
  • Comic Relief £255,8342016-05-13
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

10 trustees on the board

3.8y median 2.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9General Charitable Purposes 1Other Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 12Health and social care 1Hospitality 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£32.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.2 in 2021

469 from 625 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
18%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1076235
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/02/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/06/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/09/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/11/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/09/2005AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 16/12/2011
Companies House
Company number 03521587 · Active
Contact on the register
02036144272 · media.action@bbc.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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