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Purpose remits
The BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain
Under the terms of the Charter and Agreement, the BBC's main activities should be the promotion of six public purposes through output consisting of information, education and entertainment.
Public purposes
The Charter and Agreement set six public purposes for the BBC:
- 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.
The Trust's obligations
One of the Trust's obligations is to set purpose remits for each public purpose. These define the Trust's priorities for the Executive Board and explain how it will judge the Executive's performance against them.
Purpose remits in full
You can find the full text of all the purpose remits below:
- Sustaining citizenship and civil society, PDF (62KB)
- Sustaining citizenship and civil society, text only (21.4KB)
- 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)
You may wish to read the purpose remits operating framework alongside the remits:
- Operating framework, PDF (73.7KB)
- Operating rramework, text only (15.3KB)
Public consultation
As part of the process of developing the remits the Trust consulted publicly. The consultation and associated documents can found at the the Trust's response to the consultation page.
Protocol
More details on how the Trust works with the Executive Board on the operation of purpose remits can be found in the purpose remits protocol and in the purpose remit operating framework.