# LEOGEN

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 1210151
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** CIO
- **Registered:** Sept. 20, 2024
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1210151


## Contact

- **Address:** Lower Ley Farm, Lower Ley Lane, Minsterworth
- **Postcode:** GL2 8JT
- **Phone:** 01452 893766
- **Email:** admin@leogen.org
- **Website:** http://www.leogen.org/



## Activities

**Objects:** FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF ADVANCEMENT OF ANIMAL WELFARE AND PREVENTION OF INCREASED SUFFERING IN PEDIGREE DOGS (INITIALLY LEONBERGERS) THROUGH:(1) TARGETED GENETIC MANAGEMENT IN BREEDING PRACTISES; AND (2) EDUCATING, SHARING AND DISSEMINATING KNOWLEDGE AND BEST PRACTICE REGARDING THE BREEDING OF LEONBERGER’S AND OTHER PEDIGREE DOGS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

**Activities:** The Leonberger Genetic (LeoGen) Diversity Project aims to achieve increased diversity in the breed through a sequence of careful outcrossing, rotational crossing between participating breeder teams, and back crossing again to strong typical Leonberger lines. Out-crossing, or out-breeding, is the technique of breeding one breed with another breed to bring in something new from the other breed.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Other Finance, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- **What:** Animals
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Geography

- Scotland
- Throughout England And Wales





## Trustees

| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| **Sharon Springel** | Chair |  |
| Dr Daniela Lutz-Beck |  |  |
| Juulia Nemlander |  |  |
| Kaj Lindstedt |  |  |
| Noora Ahokas |  |  |
| Peter Lewis |  |  |
| Rosemarie Lyon |  |  |
| Sanna Roste-Torniainen |  |  |




