about Children in Need (and big charities in general)

[divineinterruption]

What percentage of the donations actually go to help people in need? Big charities must have huge staffing costs, admin, offices, infrastructure etc and I just think it must be only a very a small percentage that actually goes to the target organisations.

[Krisis]

They are all different. With children in need all the donation goes to helping people and the gift aid part pays for the staffing costs and admin.

[Littleallovertheshop]

It's all available on the charity commissions website - you can read their accounts.

Of course there is staffing and overheads for any charity like any business. Without the correct infrastructure the charity couldn't survive.