BBC MEDIA ACTION (INDIA) LIMITED

Registered charity 1121665 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BBC WST LIMITED

BBC Media Action (India) Limited uses media and communication to reduce poverty and promote human rights in India, thereby enabling people to build better lives. BBC Media Action (India) Limited is focusing on health and resilience and humanitarian response issues in India.

Objects

1 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; AND2 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, 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.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, ASIA, AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a breakeven result for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income and expenditure both amounting to £834,167. The Board of Trustees has concluded that the going concern basis is not appropriate as the charity intends to wind down operations and cease charitable activities. Consequently, the financial statements were prepared on a basis other than going concern, reflecting the intention to wind down.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julia Rank
• Lindsey North · trustee of 2 other charities

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: India

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BBC MEDIA ACTION.

• BBC MEDIA ACTION income £32.9m
• MERCY MEDIA income £954k
• AID4ACTION income £108k
• KARUNA ACTION income £359k
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• HCJB-UK LTD income £562k

Side by side with its peers

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