Broadcasting Support Services

What the charity does

BSS empowers people to take action to improve their lives, by providing access to impartial information and advice. Services available include contact centres, incorporating helplines providing support and guidance; digital media, including web design and development and other forms of online communication such as SMS and web chat; and distribution and fulfilment of hard copy information material.

Charitable objects

(I) To advance the education of the public by all exclusively charitable means (ii) to advise and facilitate charities on all matters relating to the administration of charities public appeals and any other matters to facilitate charities making better use of the resources available to them (iii) to advance all other charitable purposes beneficial to the community (iv) to educate, train and rehabilitate persons who through their social or economic circumstances are in need of such facilities and unable to gain employment or wish to further their education.

Area of benefit: Not Defined

Governing document: Memorandum and articles of association incorporated 5 march 1981 as amended 18 march 1997, 23 october 1990, 18 march 1997, 8 march 2008 and 21 july 2009.