Family-run Staffordshire zoo faces closure without new home
Zachary Hollinshead, Zoo director, said: "We just need space - we have a real capacity issue. "We want to give the animals bigger enclosures so we're looking for a farm or something like that, which would be great. "If we can't find a space we would be looking at closure because we just can't sustain the overheads that we have with the size of the site."While the summer gives the site lots of business, the zoo is faced with £40,000 monthly overheads in the winter, when it cannot operate. The company hopes that finding a new space will open new opportunities that will help its financial position. Georgia Hollinshead, general manager at the zoo, said: "What we'd really like to focus on is building an education hub so that throughout the year we can run programmes - whether it's raining or snowing we can still have people in."That would mean we can still be educating and we can still be doing what we need to do here at Wild."The team is looking for a base in either Shropshire, Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Dudley or Birmingham, although remaining in south Staffordshire is preferred.
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