BBC CHILDREN IN NEED — grant history

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Latest income

£61.0m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£5.6m

Accounts grants total

£37.9m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Cross-checked against the funder’s own 360Giving open-data publication: 7 of 8 grants we extracted from its FY2025 accounts match a published grantee by name (88%), and 2 also match on amount within 2%. Differences usually reflect accounting-year vs award-date timing and grants the accounts aggregate. Published 360Giving grants in the file: 7,864.

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Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

GREEN SYNERGY “BBC Children in Need : to deliver a programme of activities for disadvantaged children from the local community.”
Liquid Listening “BBC Children in Need”
DOWN SYNDROME DEVELOPMENT TRUST “BBC Children in Need”
WALSALL BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT SERVICE “BBC Children in Need”
STOWMARKET ASD SATURDAY CLUBS “We are primarily funded by BBC Children in Need and are very grateful for the local communities support in fundraising a”
BISHOPS STORTFORD YOUTH PROJECT LIMITED “BBC Children in Need”
OFF THE RECORD (TWICKENHAM) “BBC Children in Need supports children to thrive in communities throughout the UK, including through family centres, com”
HOME-START HORIZONS “The BBC Children in Need fund is dedicated to helping to improve children’s lives in the UK. Thanks to the fund and the ”
KIDS KABIN “BBC Children in Need”
HARROW ASSOCIATION OF DISABLED PEOPLE “" BBC Children in Need believes that every child should have the chance to thrive and be the best they can be. For this ”
THE DALES TRUST “BBC Children in Need”
ECYPS (CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS' SERVICES) “Exciting News: ECYPS has been awarded funding by BBC Children in Need to Support Diverse Range of Trips, Including Resid”
THE KNIGHTS YOUTH CENTRE “Knights Youth Centre has received funding and support from McDonalds – in partnership with BBC Children in Need - to con”
WEST LONDON ACTION FOR CHILDREN “BBC Children in Need”
DONCASTER RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE COUNSELLING SERVICE “BBC Children in Need”
THE SOMERS TOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (CAMDEN) “BBC Children in Need”
LEWISHAM MUSIC “Sonic Minds is an award-winning creative music programme delivered by Lewisham Music and funded by Youth Music and BBC C”
FOOTPRINTS CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION CENTRE LTD “"Thank you for submitting your end of grant report for your project, it was great to read that so many of your children ”
HOME-START CRAVEN “BBC Children In Need are generous supporters of our local Home-Start network across the UK.”
LISTENING EARS “BBC Children in Need”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
Education/training (2 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Disability (1 grantee)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Coventry City (1 grantee)
Denbighshire (1 grantee)
Throughout England (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)
Throughout London (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Family Fund Business Services	—	£3.0m
new	Youth Work Alliance NI	—	£540k
new	THE NATIONAL YOUTH AGENCY	—	£540k
new	Youth Scotland	—	£540k
new	Council for Wales Voluntary Youth Services	—	£540k
new	Exit Grants	—	£368k
new	Ladybird Development Group	—	£55k
new	Look Like Me Book Challenge	—	£37k
not listed	CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHILDREN'S SOCIETY	£1.0m	—
not listed	SPIRAL SKILLS CIO	£100k	—
not listed	POSITIVE YOUTH FOUNDATION	£30k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Family Fund Business Services	FY2025	£3.0m	Emergency Essentials Programme.
Youth Work Alliance NI	FY2025	£540k	Youth work qualifications delivery.
National Youth Agency	FY2025	£540k	Youth work qualifications delivery.
Youth Scotland	FY2025	£540k	Youth work qualifications delivery.
Council for Wales Voluntary Youth Services	FY2025	£540k	Youth work qualifications delivery.
Exit Grants	FY2025	£368k	Investment in exit grants for organisations funded in excess of nine years.
Ladybird Development Group	FY2025	£55k	Project providing tailored support for disabled children aged 0 to 3 in Moray, Scotland.
Look Like Me Book Challenge	FY2025	£37k	Grant for 'Raised Voices', a youth-led initiative.
The Children’s Society	FY2024	£1.0m	A Million & Me strategic grant (matched by The Children's Society)
Spiral Skills	FY2024	£100k	Youth work activities at McDonald’s in Brixton
The Positive Youth Foundation	FY2024	£30k	Employability project in Coventy’s McDonald’s restaurants

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 5619821 vs reference 37900000 (85.2% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.