Purpose remits
The Charter defines the main objective of the BBC as the promotion of six public purposes. These are:
- Sustaining citizenship and civil society
- Promoting education and learning
- Stimulating creativity and cultural excellence
- Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities
- Bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK
- In promoting its other purposes, helping to deliver to the public the benefit of emerging communications technologies and services and, in addition, taking a leading role in the switchover to digital television
For each of these public purposes we have given the BBC a purpose remit. The remits show the priorities we have set the Executive Board and how we will assess the Board's performance against them.
Download the purpose remits
- Sustaining citizenship and civil society, PDF (62KB)
- Sustaining citizenship and civil society, text only (21.4KB)
- Promoting education and learning, PDF (49.7KB)
- Promoting education and learning, text only (15KB)
- Stimulating creativity and cultural excellence, PDF (56KB)
- Stimulating creativity and cultural excellence, text only (17.2KB)
- Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities, PDF (59.8KB)
- Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities, text only (16.4KB)
- Bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK, PDF (55.1kb)
- Bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK, text only (15.1KB)
- Emerging communications, PDF (80.7KB)
- Emerging communications, text only (18.8KB)
We have also published a purpose remits operating framework. This explains how we review and monitor performance against the remits.
Download the operating framework
- Operating framework, PDF (73.7KB)
- Operating framework, text only (15.3KB)
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