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Registered charity (CIO) · Plymouth

Dartmoor Zoological Society

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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
Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset, Devon
Website
www.dartmoorzoo.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.0m£2.0m
  • 2023£1.9m£2.0m
  • 2022£1.8m£1.9m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.5m£2.0m
  • 2020£1.6m£1.2m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 29%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1 FOR THE BENEFIT AND EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, THE CONSERVATION OF THE EARTH'S NATURAL RESOURCES THROUGH PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES DEALING WITH THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF LIVING ANIMALS AND THEIR HABITATS.2 TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN A FORMAL AND INFORMAL MANNER THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES RAISING AWARENESS AND RESPECT FOR NATURE.3 TO CARRY OUT SCIENTIFIC AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH FROM WHICH CONSERVATION AND ANIMAL WELFARE BENEFITS CAN ACCRUE AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH

Grants received

4 grants · £823,586 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £813,626 (3 grants)
  • Ministry of Defence · £9,960

Most recent

  • Ministry of Defence £9,9602022-02-11
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £524,7842020-12-15
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £210,0922020-12-15
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £78,7502020-05-13
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.

5 trustees on the board

9.2y median 9y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 5Animals 4Environment/conservation/heritage 4General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

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

Health and social care 8Professional services 4Business services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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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£2.0m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.3 in 2020

52 from 40 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
1158422
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 02 Sep 2014
Contact on the register
01752837645 · zoobase@dartmoorzoo.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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