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The Big Cat Sanctuary Ltd

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £3.6m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
thebigcatsanctuary.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The BIG CAT Sanctuary Limited
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£3.6m£3.2m
  • 2023£2.9m£3.0m
  • 2022£4.2m£3.5m
Earlier years
  • 2021£3.7m£2.6m
  • 2020£2.2m£2.1m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING BIO-DIVERSITY

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

9 trustees on the board

4.5y median 3.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Animals 9Education/training 9Environment/conservation/heritage 9

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 13Hospitality 8Other services 7

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.6m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

18.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 17.2 in 2020

49 from 50 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1104420
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 4 FEBRUARY 2002 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 20 MAY 2004 as amended on 01 Oct 2019
Companies House
Company number 04365977 · Active
Contact on the register
01992470490 · accounts@pwpark.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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