Trusts & Foundations
Chester Zoo is a force for nature – and so are the trustees and grantmakers who support our vital conservation work.
Chester Zoo is a force for nature – and so are the trustees and grantmakers who support our vital conservation work.
The support of charitable trusts and foundations is crucial in ensuring that we are working towards a future where nature can not only survive, but also thrive.
Our charity works in partnership with a number of charitable trusts, foundations and grant-makers to deliver impactful projects across our wide range of conservation, education and science work. We truly wouldn’t be able to do all that we do without the support of transformative funding, and we are so grateful to all our passionate funders who play a huge role in saving species and conserving nature for future generations.
We enable the survival of endangered species, like the work we are doing to reintroduce lesser Bermuda snails.
We educate people all over the globe about the power of conservation, from our work with 60 partners globally, to our outreach work across the region, through to the 40 scholars and fellows we have here at the zoo.
We empower change-makers and encourage pro-conservation behaviour, like our campaigning work to prevent habitat destruction by increasing the demand for sustainable palm oil.
We engage 2 million people each year at our Chester hub through powerful experiences, like hand-feeding fruit bats in our forest habitat, that inspire a generation of future conservationists.
Generous support from trustees and grantmakers enables our charity to...
...human-wildlife co-existence by bringing technology, research and expertise to create behaviour change through awareness raising within local communities, such as our work to reverse the decline of Bengal tigers in Nepal.
...international species conservation, like our work to reintroduce the critically endangered Eastern Black Rhino after their numbers in the wild declined by 96%, by transferring our knowledge of black rhino physiology to our in-country partner - the Kenyan Wildlife Service.
... the development of sustainable livelihoods in fragile and forest-dependent communities, like our work with Madagasikara Voakajy (MV), our conservation partner in Madagascar.
...community connection and partnerships to create positive conservation impact on our doorstep, raising awareness of the importance of biodiversity in one of the most nature-depleted nations on Earth through our landscape-scale UK project Networks for Nature, aiming to empower communities to connect with nature recovery across Northwest Cheshire.
... cutting-edge scientific development, such as our world-leading research to produce a vaccine for a deadly disease affecting Asian elephants worldwide.
... the benefits of nature for our mental and physical wellbeing, share our knowledge and expertise, and promote best practice by training and empowering international field partners, trainee conservationists, school children, and more through our Conservation Training Academy, and field and education programmes.
Our charity receives grants that range from £400 to £1 million – every grant helps us to ensure nature can survive and thrive both in the UK and across the globe.
Read our latest Annual Report and our Conservation Masterplan.
Your support directly helps to fund our work - in the zoo and across the world. Find out more about the areas of conservation work our experts carry out every day.
