Share some Christmas joy with your favourite animals

Donate a Festive Dinner

This Christmas, serve up something truly special - a festive feast for the animals at Whipsnade and London Zoos, and a lifeline for wildlife in the wild.

Choose a starter, main, dessert, full three-course meal or a family feast and share the festive cheer! 

By donating the cost of a festive dinner, you can provide nourishing meals for our zoo residents while supporting ZSL's global conservation work, helping protect endangered species around the world.

This year, your gift goes twice as far: every donation will be matched by a generous supporter*, so one meal becomes two!

Festive Dinners certificate

As a thank you for your donation, we'll send you a printable festive dinner certificate that you can keep or share as a gift with a loved one for Christmas. It'll arrive in your inbox straight away after you donate.

Donate a Festive Dinner

Give an extra-generous helping and feed a family

  • Meerkats at Whipsnade Zoo Christmas

    £100

    Bring joy to some of our smaller residents! Your donation could treat a group of curious meerkats, playful lemurs or colourful birds to their favourite snacks and enrichment.

    Donate £100
  • A group of rockhopper penguins investigate two Christmas boxes filled with fish

    £250

    Help us care for penguins, zebras or wild dogs over the holidays. Your donation could support nutritious meals and winter care to help incredible animals thrive.

    Donate £250
  • Rhinos enjoying a Christmas meal

    £500

    Go above and beyond for our larger animals. With your generous gift, we could provide a hearty feast for our troop of gorillas, pride of lions or crash of rhinos.

    Donate £500
  • Camels enjoying a festive meal

    Choose your amount

    As a charity, we depend on the generosity of supporters like you. Every contribution, of whatever size, really means the world to us.

    Choose your donation

What's on the menu?

Penguins with a Christmas dinner

Penguins

  • A starter of the finest calamari.
  • A fresh fishy feast of sprats, mackerel and sardines for main course.
  • Crunchy crustaceans for dessert.
     
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Rhinos enjoying a Christmas meal

Rhinos

  • Mixed grasses and leaves to start.
  • Cabbage with shrub and tree branches for main course.
  • A fresh fruit salad for dessert.
     
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Meerkats explore a festive post box

Meerkats

  • Crunchy locusts to start.
  • A main course of crickets and high protein mealworms with veg on the side.
  • A nutritious mix of fruit for dessert.

     
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Otter xmas joy at Whipsnade Zoo

Otters

  • Crunchy crustaceans to start.
  • A fish medley for main course.
  • Scrumptious molluscs for dessert!
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Ring tailed lemurs enjoy xmas stockings at Whipsnade Zoo

Lemurs

  • A sweet starter of grapes, apples and bananas.
  • Leafy greens, carrots and sweet potatoes for the main course.
  • Special lemur biscuits for dessert.
Donate a Christmas meal
Donate a festive dinner

Thank you for supporting animals! 

Every donation, big or small, helps us to care for the animals at Whipsnade and London Zoos and protect endangered wildlife around the world.

Thank you, and Merry Christmas from all of us - furry, feathered, and scaly alike!

 

*Donations to our Festive Dinners appeal will be doubled by a generous donor up to a total of £10,000.