NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WALES

Registered charity 514108 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TRADES AS THE WELSH MOUNTAIN ZOO, WELSH MOUNTAIN ZOO, ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WALES

Owning and managing Zoological Gardens providing education and conservation benefits. Involvement in and/or management of in-situ and ex-situ projects in Wales and abroad. Providing education services. Providing training and relevant work experience opportunities.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net deficit of £101,390, despite total income of £2.69M exceeding the budget. Per the trustees' report, cash reserves stood at £1.43M, which is well above the stated policy target of £500,000, indicating adequate liquidity to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sage & Company Business Advisors Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01731129
• Trading subsidiary: ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WALES TRADING COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 02919513

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Welsh Mountain Zoo (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LEGGET-JONES, Janet Marianne — director, appointed 20/01/2025on trustee list
• O'CARROLL, Alice — director, appointed 20/01/2025on trustee list
• MELFI, Vicky, Dr — director, appointed 20/01/2025on trustee list
• ROGERS, Jonathan Ashley — director, appointed 14/06/2022on trustee list
• JACKSON, Nicholas Lawrence — director, appointed 14/06/2022on trustee list
• GREENWOOD, Andrew George — director, appointed 21/04/2020on trustee list
• BELTON, Susan — director, appointed 11/06/2019on trustee list
• JACKSON, Robert — director, appointed 04/03/2014on trustee list
• BROWN, Nigel Howard — director, appointed 11/12/2007not on trustee list
• HARCOURT, Caroline Susan, Dr — director, appointed 22/06/2001on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Christopher — secretary, appointed 20/05/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £170k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~16.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (78% 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: 12.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Robert Jacksonchair
• Alice O'Carroll
• Andrew Greenwood
• Dr CAROLINE HARCOURT
• Dr Vicky Melfi
• Janet Legget-Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Ashley Rogers
• NIGEL HOWARD BROWN BSC
• Nicholas Jackson
• Susan Belton

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

Operates in: Conwy · Denbighshire · Flintshire · Gwynedd

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DUDLEY AND WEST MIDLANDS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY LIMITED.

• DUDLEY AND WEST MIDLANDS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £5.9m
• THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED income £5.3m
• NORTH WALES WILDLIFE TRUST income £4.0m
• WALES APE AND MONKEY SANCTUARY LTD income £485k
• THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON income £92.7m
• WILD WELFARE income £283k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.