BBC CHILDREN IN NEED — grant history

Registered charity 802052 · filings on the Charity Commission register

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

Credited as a funder by

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

LEICESTERSHIRE, LEICESTER AND RUTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION “Today, BBC Children in Need, in partnership with Co-op Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, J”
CO-OPERATIVE COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FOUNDATION “We’re proud to join BBC Children in Need, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, Joseph Levy Foundation, Pa”

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)

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.