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Registered charity · Greater Manchester

BBC Children in Need

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...

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £61m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey and more
Website
www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
BBC Children in Need
Registered
1989

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£61m£54m
  • 2024£55m£49m
  • 2023£50m£40m
Earlier years
  • 2022£70m£75m
  • 2021£66m£60m
Charitable objects

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.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

13 trustees on the board

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 13Education/training 13General Charitable Purposes 13

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

Business services 11Health and social care 7Tech and media 6

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£61.0m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

14.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 10.1 in 2021

167 from 142 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
802052
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04/04/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/02/2008AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 10/02/2012 as amended on 26 Jun 2019 as amended on 23 Jul 2019 as amended on 23 Jul 2019 as amended on 12 Nov 2019 as amended on 02 Nov 2021 as amended on 09 Dec 2024
Companies House
Company number 04723022 · Active
Contact on the register
03456090015 · pudsey@bbc.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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