National Wildlife Conservation Park » Bristol Zoo

12-10-2008

The plans for the park have been around for a few years now, in the middle of the boom period in the UK, and i am quite sure that money was freely available to invest, if the project was proposed this year then NO chance!
If not all, then i am assuming that a big chunk of money is there, they would not be putting an application for planning to the local authority, without the ability of starting work straight away, pending approval of their plans.

12-10-2008

So true, alot of zoos have done really well in the last decade and have been really sensible with money and have a good outlook for the feature even with te "Credit crunch".

12-10-2008

Yes I agree there is no reason why established zoos can't ride out the credit crunch. Many have good balance sheets from the past few boom years.

I do hope Bristol have got funding in place because as you say raising it right now will be near impossible.

12-10-2008

Found this BBC News article from July in which zoo director Dr Jo Gipps talks about the funding situation for NWCP:

BBC NEWS | England | Bristol | Zoo submits £70m park proposals

...which doesn't sound too promising.

12-10-2008

This may just mean they dont have it all, but seems phase 1 will go ahead and the other phases would once the finance is availble.

13-10-2008

dear me... this project could see alot of waiting around!

13-10-2008

Obviously true, in that it's an attempt to attract donors/sponsors/partners for concessions (the Society can't deal with investors unless they give up their charitable status). It's not a big deal, but I still think it's a pretty crass idea, because it can be seen as an attempt to make the project seem to be a bigger deal than it can be.

Alan (still in grumpy old man mode )

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14-10-2008

I wonder if any of them had money in the banks in Iceland!!!!If they did then thats 1 big problem.

12-04-2009

What animal species are going to be in each area

National Wildlife Park
12-04-2009

Are they any closers to their goal with the fund raising? I am sure donations have dried up to some degree as it has with fund raising here in Canada during these economic times. Certain causes can always attract money but they have to have a very high profile and return for the donor.

13-04-2009

try looking on their website also there are some pictures of the plans in the gallery

13-04-2009

Bristol are still negotiating final planning permission for the project , so would not be able to start yet even should the money be available .