List of The Dumping Ground characters
This is a list of characters that were introduced in CBBC's The Dumping Ground. The series was based on The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson. It has aired from 2013 to 2025 and has aired thirteen seasons. The series follows The Story of Tracy Beaker which ran for five series from 2002 to 2005, and Tracy Beaker Returns which ran for three series from 2010 to 2012. Connor Byrne has played the role of [|Mike Milligan] for all four programmes, although he left in Series 7 Episode 24 to live with his family in Ireland. He returned in the last episode of the last season of The Beaker Girls.
Cast
Main characters
Faith Davis
Faith Davis is a resident of Elm Tree House and Ashdene Ridge during the first two series of The Dumping Ground. She is portrayed by Leanne Dunstan. Faith, who shares a room with Elektra while at Elmtree House, is one of the elder children. She tries to be responsible, and proves her capabilities and maturity when she acts as a surrogate careworker in the opening episode of The Dumping Ground. She is 16 in series two.In The Real Faith Davis, the police call and the young people suspect something is wrong. All of them start spreading rumours about her being a drug dealer, until Faith tells them the truth. She reveals that the police might have found the body of her brother, Razz, who had been missing. Frank uses this as a way to get more sponsors for her charity run. Faith is disgusted and tells Elektra that she was put in care because she told a teacher that she lived alone, which resulted in them calling social services. The police tell her that the body was not a match; she hides in the garden and finds Floss who helps her gain some composure. The next day she completes her charity run with everyone supporting her. In the second series of The Dumping Ground, after Faith is hit by a car, she temporarily uses a wheelchair, and becomes increasingly negative. This is unlike Faith, as she's very optimistic and ambitious most of the time, but feeling like she was stuck in the wheelchair made her think she would never run or walk again. She becomes mean and aggressive towards the younger kids mainly, making Harry and Floss to clean her room for a "prize" and ordering them about. She ends up teasing Harry, treating him like a baby. When Faith wants to watch a movie, but Mo, Floss and Harry were already watching something, she tells them to get lost and Mo tells her that she's become really mean, and that he's going to tell Mike. That causes Faith to call Mo a grass. Frank witnesses this and when Faith starts to order Frank about, Frank gives her a piece of his mind by telling her that she's not useless, she's in a wheelchair and she will get better. He then goes on to tell her that he has to talk really slow every day of his life so people can understand him. This changes Faith's recent behaviour and she reverts to her caring and friendly self, but she does have a few snappy and mean moments in later episodes.
Faith is one of the older residents and is tall for her age, with long black hair. She wants to be a distance runner when she grows up, but a car crash incident in "Booting Up" temporarily halts her plans. She leaves the series following the conclusion to the second series of The Dumping Ground. As of the third series and for one episode, Dunstan returns as Faith. In series 5, Faith does not appear. However, in #SaveTheDG, Tee mentions that Faith made a £50 donation to help keep the 'Dumping Ground' running.
Floss Guppy
Floss Guppy, portrayed by Sarah Rayson, made her first appearance on 1 February 2013 in series 1 of The Dumping Ground during the episode "The Real Faith Davis". She was previously the longest-lasting child to be introduced in The Dumping Ground until her departure in Series 10.Floss is in care because she was abandoned by her mother in a nail salon, when she was 18 months old. She was still young when she had Floss and couldn't cope. Floss Guppy is good friends with Finn McLaine and Toni and Billie Trent and although initially wary of Harry, even stealing his toy giraffe Jeff, after he unintentionally scares her with stories of the bad things that happened at Elm Tree House, she becomes good friends with him as well.
Series 1
Floss doesn't appear much or have many major story-lines in Series 1 of The Dumping Ground. She arrives at Elm Tree House midway into the series and meets Harry, who gives him a tour around the house. When they reach Harry's room, Floss is drawn to Jeff and asks to hold him. Harry agrees and tries to get Jeff back from her but she refuses, only agreeing to put him back after the tour is over. During the tour, Harry tells Floss about the bad things that happened which scares her off. She ends up in the garden and comforts Faith. Faith convinces Floss to go find Harry after telling her that Harry is a good boy. She reunites with Harry and along with Mike, paint Floss' bedroom to look like the jungle. Floss claims it's for Jeff because he wants to move in. Harry tries to get Jeff back but Floss blackmails him into keeping Jeff by threatening to tell Mike that Harry scared Floss off. He gives up as Floss smirks in victory.
Series 2
In "Kick Off", Floss and Harry decided to continuously take sweets from Tyler's diet plan bucket, after Bailey said Tyler needed to lose weight. Floss was later sick after eating too many sweets.
In "Experience", Carmen used Floss to sabotage Jody's film documentary she was making to new social workers about kids in care. By instead of talking about living in care, Carmen told her to tell Jody the story of "Millie and Bob" which were Floss' sock puppets she made. This didn't go well with Jody.
In "The Barbecue", when Lily tells Carmen that she's moving down to Brighton with her family, to run her step-mum's sister's cafe by the seaside, Carmen kicks Bailey's football quite hard in anger which breaks Johnny's bedroom window. Carmen escapes from the scene, but Bailey hears the window smash and runs to the window. Johnny looks outside his window and sees Bailey standing there. As it's Bailey's football and Johnny and Bailey have a strong rivalry, Johnny automatically accuses Bailey, as does everyone else. Carmen is afraid to confess, but doesn't know that Floss saw her doing it. Later, Mike rings the insurance company to have the window replaced, but when he lets slip that it wasn't an accident, he is told that it's criminal damage. But Mike did not have any intention of involving the police in the situation, and while Mike was on the phone to the insurance company, May-Li was on the other phone at the same time to a repair company to replace to the broken window, and she was told that it could be expensive. Johnny was in the office at the time and was present to hear everything, and decided to call the police himself in private. Before Lily's goodbye barbecue started there was a knock at the door, Mo answered it and was alarmed to see two policemen. They came to arrest Bailey to question him about the window incident. Carmen, again too scared to own up just watched Bailey get arrested and taken to the police station. Later, Floss went to see Carmen in her bedroom to ask if she could look at the "silver dog" again, but as Carmen was not in the mood to talk, she told Floss to leave, but Floss interrupted her saying that she saw Carmen smash the window and that she wouldn't tell anyone, if Carmen gave her the silver dog. Carmen, although not wanting too, gave Floss the necklace to keep her quiet, and told her to leave. During the barbecue while Lily was taking pictures of everyone, she noticed Floss was wearing the charm necklace she gave to Carmen. Floss told Lily that Carmen said she hated it and gave it to Floss. Lily went to find Carmen to ask why, and Carmen ended up telling Lily what she did, and that she was the one who smashed the window. Lily is shocked and appalled at Carmen, and says that Bailey was arrested and that Carmen just sat and watched it happen. Carmen then decides to storm off and tell Mike to take her to the police station as she was the one who smashed the window. Later in the garden, May-Li takes Floss to Lily to apologise and return the necklace to Lily. Lily forgives Floss and says for her to give her a sorry expression on her face for a picture.
In "Be My Girl", Floss meets some prospective parents. She starts to think about her Mother and when a little boy in the park questions her 'Where is your Mum, haven't you got one?' in an evil way, Floss goes over the tipping point and pushes him and his ice cream to the ground. Floss' potential foster parents shout at Floss, upsetting her. May-Li reveals that Floss is in care because she was abandoned by her mother in a nail salon, when she was 18 months old; this is why she is so attached to nail varnish. At the foster parents' house they ask her to remove her nail varnish causing Floss to throw food around. Floss tells all the people at the 'Dumping Ground' that whilst there is a chance her mother might return, she will wait.
In Series 3, Floss took up dancing. In "Party Games", during an open day for potential foster parents to get to know the kids in Ashdene Ridge, Floss showed a dance routine to the couples that attended the open day to impress them. And also to try to get money from them by busking.
In series 4 she has a major storyline in the episode "Troll". In this episode, fearing she's being overlooked especially after Harry's departure, she comes up with an idea which she hopes will put her center stage, but it ends up with her heavily upsetting Finn.
In Series 5, she gets a chance to star in a commercial playing the daughter of a woman. Since she shouldn't know what it is like to have a mother, she struggles with the idea but is able to play the role well. While at first, she decides to be fostered, she quickly changes her mind when she realizes that everyone else cares about her.
Floss is an incredibly bubbly young girl, with short curly ginger hair and green eyes. She is very mischievous and can be manipulative, always doing what she can to get what she wants. Although she is very sarcastic and can be rude, she has a good heart and wants to be loved deep down.
In Series 8, it's revealed via a DNA test that Ross is her twin brother and her mother's name is Jane Sadler, making her real last name Sadler. They go in search of their mother on their own, following an address but it is the wrong house.
In Series 9, Floss is given the chance to meet her real mother and ask her the questions she has always wanted to know answers to. However, when she realizes that her mother is not coming to take her out of care, she becomes upset and decides to cut contact with her.
In Series 10, she enters a baking competition in the hopes of getting into a baking academy. While she doesn't win, Lily offers to let Floss take ownership of one of her cafes, which also has a flat above it. Floss accepts and moves out of The Dumping Ground, with her friends, both old and new, surprising her at the cafe.