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Registered charity · West Midlands

Dudley and West Midlands Zoological Society Limited

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £5.9m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Dudley
Website
www.dudleyzoo.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Dudley and West Midlands Zoological Society Limited
Registered
1978

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.9m£6.1m
  • 2024£6.6m£6.1m
  • 2023£5.9m£5.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.8m£5.4m
  • 2021£6.1m£4.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE BENEFIT AND EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, THE COLLECTION, PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION, CARE AND EXHIBITION ON THE PREMISES OF THE SOCIETY OF LIVING ANIMALS AND THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCES OF ZOOLOGY, ARBORICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND BOTANY AND A MORE EXTENDED EDUCATION, STUDY, KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF THE ANIMAL AND PLANT KINGDOMS BY THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW, CURIOUS, AND ENDANGERED SPECIES BELONGING TO THEM. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM).

Grants received

2 grants · £1,104,729 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £999,000
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £105,729

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £105,7292021-03-02
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £999,0002011-03-15
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.

5.5y median 6y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 11Education/training 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11

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 9Other services 3Finance 2

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£6.6m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

11.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.5 in 2020

123 from 106 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
507221
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 31 JANUARY 1978 AS AMENDED BY A SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON 22 JULY 1988
Companies House
Company number 01350864 · Active
Contact on the register
01384215310 · admin@dudleyzoo.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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