John Regan Associates - External funding for zoos, botanical gardens & aquaria

Hi We are a small non for profit pure volunteer based group called Turbary woods Owl & Bird of prey Sanctuary www.turbarywoods.co.uk We are also a registered zoo Is there any more information available for grants, We are desperate to re-build our old aviaries, which we are doing so as we raise funds. Regards Andrew Bilsborough [...]

The UK Gov has announced 24 new LEPSs ( successors – kind of – to the old RDAs). Quite a lot of England seems to have been left out… Hampshire? Bristol..? Yorkshire ..? Here is the list Birmingham & Solihull with E. Staffordshire, Lichfield &Tamworth – Cheshire and Warrington – Coast to Capital – Cornwall [...]

I attended a fantastic launch for this charity last Thursday at Aspley House, home of the current Duke of Wellington. Host of celebrities and prominent political, business and social figures were present. JRA is providing a little strategic support re funding Sharpe’s Children was set up by the actors in the TV series Sharpe starring [...]

As usual I will be at the BIAZA Education and Marketing conference from the 3rd to 5th October and look forward to seeing lots of zoo folk there. If you would like to pick my brains ( I think there is something left there!) on anything to do with external funding for your site, please [...]

Why Norman Foster Why Norman Foster? By Lars Lunding Andersen When the Zoo celebrated its 140th anniversary in 1999 a master plan for the next 10-15 years was published. Within this plan the entire northern part of the Zoo was reserved for the elephants. Already in 2001 the Realdania Foundation announced that they were willing [...]

It will be interesting to see if the new financial science, education and energy policy can be finessed to have a relevance to the UK zoo and aquarium community

Have not yet read Desmond Morris’ new book on children’s early cognitive development. But suspect that, like the distinguished child psychologist Aric Sigman http://www.aricsigman.com/, he places a premium on the live, real family experience at the zoo as an important building block in social development and learning

So a couple of new books that have a relevance to JRA’ work… 1. Celebrity and the Environment: Fame, Wealth and Power in Conservation – Paperback (23 July 2009) by Dan Brockington Buy new: £12.99 £11.69 If you know what we do, you will know that various sometimes very high ranking figures have been good [...]