National Trust

2cv said:
It’s easy to forget, but the National Trust and National Trust Scotland are charities, and rely to a large extent on volunteers giving freely of their time. Saving on admission fees by for example joining the New Zealand equivalent is therefore depriving a UK charity of income.
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The average director salary of the national trust is 90k, 28% above the national average.
I doubt they will miss a few pence.

National Trust Director Salaries in the United Kingdom | Indeed.co.uk
 
Point taken

hairydog said:
Most companies partly pay directors in shares and share options. The NT can't do that, so pays more in salaries. In general, the NT is not a generous employer.
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Shares, dividends, yeah I see your point.
 
I think it's easy to forget that a lot of the large charities, are in effect just businesses...
And as such need to attract folks with proven track records of being capable of steering the charity to 'making' large amounts ... And that costs money...


Smaller local charities are often a completely different kettle of fish.
 
If I remember correctly NT are sitting on reserves (not assets) of just under a billion and have 31 million invested in fossil fuel companies...
that was a couple of years ago so may have changed...
 
Wot I meant was...

Does being an NT member get your van any access/parking benefits or not?
 
NT may be a charity but they were set up so that people could enjoy their properties, all I now see is, if you can afford membership which is now quite high, then and only then can you enjoy their properties. Don't get me wrong, I know they've to make money to maintain the properties they have aquired, but they now also buy properties/land as far as I'm aware, which makes them even bigger, and more costly to run, taking their access even further out of the realms of the low paid/unemployed people who they were set up to help see their properties, in the first place. As for fox hunting, under what ever disguised name you want to use, it's another no to membership from us too.
 
EarthDemon said:
Does being an NT member get your van any access/parking benefits or not?
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Having a National Trust for Scotland membership sticker gives free parking at most of its properties. It also gives free parking at the National Trust (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) properties. There are some properties where the NTS & NT do not have dedicated parking and you have to park in commercial car parks, which do not allow free parking. Both organisations have rural car parks which are not manned. On manned properties you need to check with the property manager if you want to park overnight.
The NTS does not have huge reserves.
 
Wow

Debroos said:
If I remember correctly NT are sitting on reserves (not assets) of just under a billion and have 31 million invested in fossil fuel companies...
that was a couple of years ago so may have changed...
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Thanks for that, and I bet it has changed, as in more money in reserve, more assets, and more backward investment in companies which care not for the planet, just profit.
National untrusted with members monies is now how I see them.
 
Interesting to hear that the NTS don't have large reserves.
What makes me most mad though is that it is now so elitist.
Anyone who is not comfortably off is excluded. Not so bad with regard to the houses but lots of people now cannot afford the car park charges so are unable to take their families for countryside walks.
And before anyone says, there really are areas where there is very little free countryside/coastal parking.
 
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