The BBC World Service Trust is the BBC's international development charity. We are funded by external grants and voluntary contributions. We only receive a small amount of core support for our activities from the BBC (both in kind and cash).
Our donors range from government aid programmes, to international foundations, trusts, government aid programmes, companies, United Nations organisations and non-governmental organisations.
We are grateful of their support, without which none of our work would be possible.
Working in partnership
We work in partnership with governments, broadcasters, media professionals, and civil society institutions in developing and transitional countries to deliver our programmes. We also partner with UN agencies and international NGOs.
We work with partners to help them to produce (write, direct, perform, record, film, edit), broadcast and promote programmes, which have a positive impact on the lives of poor communities. We also draw on the expertise of local organisations to ensure the accuracy and appropriateness of our development messages.
One of our primary objectives is to strengthen the media in developing countries. We share BBC expertise with broadcast and production partners, delivering extensive training and change management programmes in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
Our partnerships with local governmental and non-governmental agencies help us ensure that all services and/or products that we champion - such as condoms or inoculation against infection diseases - are available in the communities where the programmes are broadcast.
And finally, our partners help design and deliver complimentary activities designed to increase the educational impact of our programmes. For example, we've worked with partners around the world to develop 'listening clubs' and 'learning groups', where trained facilitators discuss the issues raised in our programmes with the people who stand to benefit most.
Donors
The BBC World Service Trust is grateful for the support of the following organisations:
- Africa Educational Trust
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- British Council
- Community Fund
- Conciliation Resources
- Danish International Development Assistance (Danida)
- Department For International Development, UK (DfID)
- European Commission
- European Union
- Facilitating Local Initiatives for Conflict Transformation (FLICT), Sri Lanka
- Ford Foundation
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UK (FCO)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH
- Grupo Zeta
- Health Unlimited
- Humanity United
- International Labour Organisation (ILO)
- International Trachoma Initiative (ITI)
- John Ellerman Foundation
- Kaiser Foundation
- Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Netherlands (NEDA)
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Belgium
- Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
- Potanin Charity Foundation
- Radio Netherlands Training Centre (RNTC)
- Sasakawa Memorial Health Fund
- United Nations AIDS
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- United Nations Development Fund For Women (UNIFEM)
- United Nations Mine Action Centre for Afghanistan (UNMACA)
- United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI)
- USAID US Agency for International Development
- World Bank
- World Health Organization (WHO)
Partners
The BBC World Service Trust works, or has worked in partnership with the following organisations:
- Africa Educational Trust
- AIDS Media Center
- Association of Newspaper Publishers, Bulgaria
- Bayon Radio, Cambodia
- BBC World
- BBC World Service
- Beijing People's Radio, China
- Big Lottery Fund
- Bulgarian Media Coalition
- Carnegie Foundation
- The Centre for Media Initiatives, Ukraine
- Clouds FM, Tanzania
- Communication Initiative
- Council for Electronic Media, Bulgaria
- CS Mott Foundation
- Danish School of Journalism, Denmark
- Doordarshan - India's national broadcaster
- Dublin City University, Ireland
- Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
- Ecole Superieure de Journalisme, France
- The English Football Association
- Eurasia Media Centre, Russia
- European Agency for Reconstruction
- European Commission
- FM 103, Phnom Penh Municipality Radio, Cambodia
- Foundation for Independent Radio, Russia
- The Guardian Foundation, UK
- Helping Hands, Russia
- Human Dynamics, Austria
- Indian Institute for Journalism and New Media
- Indian Institute for Mass Communication
- Instituto Nacional de Luta contra o Sida
- Integrity, Nigeria
- International Centre for Prison Studies, UK
- International Federation of Journalists, Belgium
- International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
- International Planned Parenthood Federation
- IREX (Europe), France
- Kiev Institute of Journalism, Ukraine
- Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Media Development Center, Bulgaria
- National Action Committee on AIDS, Nigera
- National AIDS Authority, Cambodia
- National AIDS Control Organisation, India
- The Open University, UK
- Polish National Broadcasting Council
- Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford, UK
- Radio Free Africa, Tanzania
- Rádio Luanda, Angola
- Rádio Nacional de Angola
- Radio National of Kampuchea (RNK), Cambodia
- Radio One, Tanzania
- Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam (RTD)
- Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, London
- Sasakawa Memorial Health Fund
- Sofia University Faculty of Journalism, Bulgaria
- Stockholm Envrionment Institute, Sweden
- Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency (SDC)
- Tanzania Commission for AIDS
- Television Trust for the Environment, UK
- Terra Nuova
- TERI, India
- TOP Media, Ukraine
- TV5, Cambodia
- TV Kampuchea (TVK), Cambodia
- UK Sport
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA)
- United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
- University of East London
- University of Leipzig, Germany
- Usitawi Network
- Viacom
- World Health Organization (WHO)