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Registered charity · Devon

South West Environmental Parks Limited

  • 2 trustees
  • Income £11m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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, Recreation
Where
Cornwall, Devon, Torbay
Website
www.paigntonzoo.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
South West Environmental Parks Limited
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£11m£19m
  • 2023£8.3m£11m
  • 2022£9.2m£9.3m
Earlier years
  • 2021£8.6m£8.0m
  • 2020£9.1m£12m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS ARE:FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:3.1 TO ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF PLANTS, ANIMALS AND THE NATURAL WORLD.3.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AND THE PUBLIC ON THE CONSERVATION OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL WORLD AND THE PROMOTION OF BIODIVERSITY.3.3 TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE MAINTENANCE OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY. IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC STUDY AND THE MAINTENANCE OF ENDANGERED ANIMALS, PLANTS AND HABITATS IN BOTH PROTECTED AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

2 trustees on the board

2y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
13.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

Portfolio (2)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 1Education/training 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1Overseas Aid/famine Relief 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Arts and leisure 4Retail and trade 2Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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
2025
incomespending£10.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2025
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.3 in 2020

201 from 299 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
300923
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 FEBRUARY 1964 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 27 OCTOBER 1994, 25 MAY 2006 AND 30 APRIL 2009.
Companies House
Company number 00792877 · Active
Contact on the register
01803697500
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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