BRITISH AND IRISH ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS

Registered charity 1128168 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

BIAZA is the professional organisation representing the zoo and aquarium community in Britain and Ireland. BIAZA is a member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) and the World Association of Zoos and Aquaria (WAZA). The Vision of the organisation: To be a powerful force in the care and conservation of the natural world

Objects

1 TO ENCOURAGE THE CARE AND WELFARE OF WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE CONSERVATION OF SPECIES; AND2 TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND AN INCREASE IN KNOWLEDGE OF THE NATURAL WORLD THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £546,752 are held, which the trustees consider to be approximately twelve months' worth of expenditure, exceeding their policy target of six months. The charity reported a net surplus of £37,545 for the year, with total incoming resources of £745,599 primarily derived from membership income. The trustees and auditors have concluded there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burgess Hodgson Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jamie Ian Christonchair
• Ben Supple
• Cameron Stevie Whitnall
• Christopher Andrew Brown
• Dr Charlotte Mary Macdonald
• Dr Romain Pizzi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Holly Cale · trustee of 1 other charity
• Irinpreet Gill
• Lewis Rowden
• Mark Anthony Habben
• Rebecca Angus
• Rebecca Catherine Moore
• Sarah Forsythe
• Stevie Sheppard · trustee of 2 other charities
• Tom Owen
• Tyler Whitnall
• Zak Jon Showell

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Gibraltar · Ireland · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITISH IRISH ASSOCIATION.

• THE BRITISH IRISH ASSOCIATION income £188k
• THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF EAST ANGLIA LIMITED income £6.2m
• WILD WELFARE income £283k
• NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WALES income £2.7m
• THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION FOR UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES income £964k
• BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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