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Registered charity · Conwy

National Zoological Society of Wales

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £2.7m (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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd
Website
www.welshmountainzoo.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
National Zoological Society of Wales LTD
Registered
1983

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.7m£2.8m
  • 2023£2.6m£2.6m
  • 2022£2.6m£2.5m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.8m£2.1m
  • 2020£2.4m£1.7m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY INCREASING KNOWLEDGE , INTEREST AND APPRECIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS IN BOTH NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENTS AND BY PROMOTING, ENCOURAGING AND ASSISTING THE STUDY OF ALL ANIMAL AND PLANT RELATED SCIENCES AND DISSEMINATING THE RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY; 2. TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES OR OCCUPATIONS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM).

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.

10 trustees on the board

4.5y median 4y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

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.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Education/training 10Animals 9Religious Activities 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 10Retail and trade 2Other services 1

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£2.7m 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.

16.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 19.8 in 2020

43 from 49 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
514108
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 JUNE 1983 as amended on 17 Sep 2019 as amended on 16 Sept 2025
Companies House
Company number 01731129 · Active
Contact on the register
01492532938 · info@welshmountainzoo.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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