BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION
ActiveThe company has not filed any accounts yet.
Comparison with all companies
Where the company stands among all 5,179,256 active companies on the register.
Positions are approximate. Figures come from each company's latest accounts; money and employee figures are compared only with companies that filed accounts in pounds for a period ending in the last two and a half years and are not dormant. The line on each bar marks the median.
Summary: BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION
What kind of company is it?
BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION is a royal charter company registered with Companies House under company number RC000057. It was incorporated on 1 Jan 1981. Its status is active.
How does it compare with similar companies?
Compared with all 5,179,256 active companies on the register: It is older than 98% of them (median age 5.7 years).
Does it supply the public sector?
The company is named as a supplier in 7 public contract award notices from 5 public sector buyers since 2017. Contracts awarded to it alone have a combined published value of £781.1k. Its most frequent buyer is UK Research & Innovation (2 contracts). 1 of the awards is shared with other suppliers, typically framework agreements. It is recorded as the recipient of 14 central government grants worth £1.1bn, mainly from Department for Work and Pensions.
What do public registers and reports show?
It appears on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker). HMRC lists it as an importer of goods, mainly electrical equipment, machinery, optical, medical and measuring instruments. HMRC lists it as an exporter of goods, mainly electrical equipment, machinery, printed matter. Its gender pay gap report for 2025/26 shows median hourly pay for women 7.6% lower than for men.
When are its next filings due?
The next confirmation statement is due by 15 Jan 2017.
Public contracts
7 contractsBRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION is named as a supplier in 7 public contract award notices from 5 public sector buyers since 2017. The 6 contracts awarded to it alone with a published value add up to £781.1k. 1 award is shared with other suppliers and not counted in that total.
- UK Research & Innovation
- 2 contracts · £67.6k
- Department for Education
- 2 contracts · £34.3k
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
- 1 contract · £621.5k
- Pool Re Services Limited
- 1 contract · £37.6k
- UK Research and Innovation
- 1 contract · £20k
- BBC MONITORING SUBSCRIPTION‡Pool Re Services Limited · £37,647 · runs until May 2027
- CSP25564 - Ideas content development partnershipUK Research and Innovation · £20,000 · runs until Jan 2027
- UKRI-3322 AHRC New Thinking Podcast Partnership‡UK Research & Innovation · £35,600
- UKRI-1914 New Thinking Podcast partnership‡UK Research & Innovation · £32,000
- Flexi-job Apprenticeship Grant Fund‡Department for Education · shared by 11 suppliers, up to £4,993,058 in total
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- Flexi Job Apprenticeship GRANT Fund‡Education and Skills Funding Agency · £621,532
- Secondment between British Broadcasting Corporation & Government Equalities Office (Rosalyn Ball)Department For Education · £34,282
From contract award notices on Contracts Finder (since 2016) and Find a Tender (since 2021), published by the Cabinet Office under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Values are as published by the buyer and usually cover the whole contract term; the total leaves out awards shared between several suppliers, where the published figure is a ceiling for all of them, placeholder values and single figures of £1 billion or more. Notices marked ‡ do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name. Contracts below the publication thresholds and those of devolved buyers that publish elsewhere are not included.
Government grants
14 grantsBRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION is recorded as the recipient of 14 central government grants since 2018, together worth £1.1bn.
- Department for Work and Pensions
- 3 grants · £1.1bn
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- 6 grants · £1.1m
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- 5 grants · £415.7k
- AI and Process Automation for Sustainable Entertainment and Media (EMERALD)Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £101,937 · UKRI - HEG - Scheme
- AI and Process Automation for Sustainable Entertainment and Media (EMERALD)Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £136,698 · UKRI - HEG - Scheme
- Mixed Augmented and eXtended Reality media pipeline (MAX-R)Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £434,383 · UKRI - HEG - Scheme
- Mixed Augmented and eXtended Reality media pipeline (MAX-R)Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £149,663 · UKRI - HEG - Scheme
- Polymersive: Immersive Video Production Tools for Studio and Live EventsDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £6,259 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme 22/23
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- Mixed Augmented and eXtended Reality media pipeline (MAX-R)Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £94,335 · UKRI - HEG - Scheme 22/23
- Building Desirable and Resilient Public Media Futures: Establishing the Centre for Public Values, Technology & SocietyDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology · £130,261 · UKRI - FLF - Scheme
- Use-case and Technology Evaluation for UK CNI Time and Frequency Dissemination using the existing 198kHz broadcast networkDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £16,676 · UKRI - Innovate - Scheme 21/22
- SEQUOIA: Sustainability-driven high quality video compression and deliveryDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £155,482 · ALB - UKRI - Innovate UK grant awards in 20-21
- MyWorldDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology · £99,058 · UKRI - Innovate UK - Scheme
- TV licences for over-75s (2020-2021)Department for Work and Pensions · £2,923,187 · BBC TV licences for over-75s (2020-2021)
- Polymersive: Immersive Video Production Tools for Studio and Live EventsDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £142,974 · ALB - UKRI - Innovate UK grant awards in 19-20
- TV Licences for Over-75s (2018)Department for Work and Pensions · £468,437,687 · TV licences for over-75s (2018)
- TV Licences for Over-75s (2017)Department for Work and Pensions · £656,000,000 · TV licences for over-75s (2017)
From the Government Grants Register published by the Cabinet Office (financial years 2016/17 onwards, Open Government Licence v3.0). It covers grants from central government departments and their agencies where the register states the recipient's company number and the recipient name matches this company; grants from local authorities, lottery distributors and devolved governments are not included.
Statutory reporting
- Median hourly pay
- women 7.6% lower
- Mean hourly pay
- women 5.7% lower
- Employer size
- 5000 to 19,999 employees
Earlier years (8)
- Year
- Median hourly pay
- Mean hourly pay
- 2024/25
- women 7.9% lower
- women 5.4% lower
- 2023/24
- women 7.3% lower
- women 4.7% lower
- 2022/23
- women 5.9% lower
- women 5.1% lower
- 2021/22
- women 5.2% lower
- women 5% lower
- 2020/21
- women 6.2% lower
- women 6.3% lower
- 2019/20
- women 6.7% lower
- women 6.8% lower
- 2018/19
- women 7.6% lower
- women 8.4% lower
- 2017/18
- women 9.3% lower
- women 10.7% lower
A positive gap means women's average hourly pay is lower than men's across the whole employer; it is not a comparison of pay for the same work. View on the Gender pay gap service
Figures the company reported itself to the government's Check payment practices service, Gender pay gap service and Modern slavery statement registry (Open Government Licence v3.0). Only large companies and employers with 250 or more staff have to report, so most companies have nothing here.
Registers and licences
- Licence type and rating
- Worker (A rating)
- Routes
- Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker
On the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, which lists organisations licensed to sponsor workers from overseas.
Listed by HMRC as an importer of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: electrical equipment, machinery, optical, medical and measuring instruments, leather goods and bags and printed matter.
Listed by HMRC as an exporter of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: electrical equipment, machinery, printed matter, leather goods and bags and knitted clothing.
From HMRC's monthly lists of importers and exporters. Traders can ask to be left off the lists, so absence does not mean a company does not trade.
Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Care Quality Commission, Home Office and HM Revenue & Customs, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Entries marked ‡ come from lists that do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name.