National 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.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Conwy
• Denbighshire
• Flintshire
• Gwynedd

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £2,488,597 and spent £3,019,942.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 13%, from £2,846,367 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £2,488,597 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 121% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Zoo Association gave £177,840 in the year to 31 December 2023, 7% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 December 2023, the charity named 1 funder who gave £177,840. £0 of that came from public bodies.

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Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Robert JacksonChairAppointed 4 March 2014
• Alice O'CarrollAppointed 20 January 2025
• Andrew GreenwoodAppointed 21 April 2020
• Dr CAROLINE HARCOURT
• Dr Vicky MelfiAppointed 20 January 2025
• Janet Legget-JonesAppointed 20 January 2025
• Jonathan Ashley RogersAppointed 14 June 2022
• Nicholas JacksonAppointed 14 June 2022
• Susan BeltonAppointed 11 June 2019

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

514108

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

18 July 1983

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 JUNE 1983 as amended on 17 Sep 2019 as amended on 16 Sept 2025

Company number

01731129This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.welshmountainzoo.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Conwy

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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