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.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY INCREASING KNOWLEDGE , INTEREST AND APPRECIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS IN BOTH NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENTS AND BY PROMOTING, ENCOURAGING AND ASSISTING THE STUDY OF ALL ANIMAL AND PLANT RELATED SCIENCES AND DISSEMINATING THE RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY; 2. TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES OR OCCUPATIONS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM).

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

Registered contact address: Conwy, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of resources of £531,345 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by reduced visitor numbers and challenging trading conditions. Despite this deficit, the charity maintains a strong unrestricted fund balance of £3,710,868 and a cash position of £859,595, which the trustees consider adequate for going concern purposes.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit. Discloses 3 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
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01731129 · Financial health read from its filings
• 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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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: 2.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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
• 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 NORTH WALES WILDLIFE TRUST.

• NORTH WALES WILDLIFE TRUST income £4.0m
• THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF EAST ANGLIA LIMITED income £6.2m
• THE NORTH OF ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £70.5m
• Working for the Wild income £31k
• WELSH PONY AND COB SOCIETY income £661k
• THE WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH AND WEST WALES LIMITED income £5.3m

Side by side with its peers

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