THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

Registered charity 208728 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY, LONDON ZOO, WHIPSNADE WILD ANIMAL PARK, ZSL

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• Alexander Richard Brooks Large · trustee of 1 other charity
• David St John Jones
• Dr Karen Lawrence · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr May Chiao
• Jonathan Cracknell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Loraine Woodhouse
• Nikhil Jal Engineer
• Professor James Cuthbert Smith FRS
• RICHARD JAMES SYKES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Thomas Kimblin KC
• Shruti Ajitsaria

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

Operates in: Algeria · Angola · Argentina · Azerbaijan · Bangladesh · Belgium · Botswana · Brazil · British Indian Ocean Territory · Burkina Faso · Cameroon · Canada

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