Just joined The National Trust

[summerdays]

We live in a National Trust blackspot - but have still almost joined on several occasions. With English Heritage you get in to CADW monuments free (Welsh Heritage - all the castles, basically) and the Scottish one (Scottish Heritage?) - family tickets to Edinburgh Castle cost roughly the same as a years membership. I believe the NT has a similar reciprocal arrangements?

Yes hence why we have the National a Trust for Scotland membership as we joined on our honeymooning Scotland, in Glencoe I think. But as we live in England we go to far more English ones than Scottish ones.

 

[slowmotion]

I've been a National Trust member for years... I've even got Mr R signed up.

A little tip: take your membership card with you when travelling. The NT has reciprocal agreements with lots of their equivalents in Europe, the USA and Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other Commonwealth countries. Even countries like Turkey, Egypt and Iran are involved. Produce your card and you get reduced or free entry to lots of places overseas.

Thanks. That's well worth knowing.

 

[cisamcgu]

We live in a National Trust blackspot - but have still almost joined on several occasions. With English Heritage you get in to CADW monuments free (Welsh Heritage - all the castles, basically) and the Scottish one (Scottish Heritage?) - family tickets to Edinburgh Castle cost roughly the same as a years membership. I believe the NT has a similar reciprocal arrangements?

I don't believe so, at least English heritage and the NT don't have that I am aware of.

 

[Ganymede]

I've been a National Trust member for years... I've even got Mr R signed up.

A little tip: take your membership card with you when travelling. The NT has reciprocal agreements with lots of their equivalents in Europe, the USA and Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other Commonwealth countries. Even countries like Turkey, Egypt and Iran are involved. Produce your card and you get reduced or free entry to lots of places overseas.

That made me go to the site to look up the list - I hadn't realised it was so huge! http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1355831557488/

 

[DaveReading]

Useful guide here on overseas reciprocal arrangements for NT members:

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1355831557488/

and NTS ones:

http://www.nts.org.uk/Site/Membership/Reciprocal-entry-sites/

Looks like you get a better deal being a Scottish member.

 

[Sandra6]

One summer we went to Carlisle castle and the very nice lady pointed out if I signed a direct debit for English heritage membership I could have my entrance fee back. Think it ended up costing an extra tenner or some other paltry amount and we went to all the Hadrian's wall sites and a few other places between here and Newcastle for the cost of petrol and parking.
Not sure about NT but EH let me take as many children as I wanted as a "family" which was nice because usually you're only allowed two.

 

[Fnaar]

I enjoy going to the NT cafes, and betting how long it'll be till a middle aged dad walks away from the till, complaining audibly about how much it's cost him to pay for tea and cake for his wife, the in laws, and some pop for the kids

 

[KneesUp]

Useful guide here on overseas reciprocal arrangements for NT members:

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1355831557488/

and NTS ones:

http://www.nts.org.uk/Site/Membership/Reciprocal-entry-sites/

Looks like you get a better deal being a Scottish member.

It's £25 for a family membership of the Bermudan National Trust ...

 

[KneesUp]

I don't believe so, at least English heritage and the NT don't have that I am aware of.

I know English Heritage and NT don't - I meant that NT has reciprocal arrangements with their Scottish and Welsh (and Isle of Man and various other countries, it turns out) equivalents.

 

[Ganymede]

Useful guide here on overseas reciprocal arrangements for NT members:

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1355831557488/

and NTS ones:

http://www.nts.org.uk/Site/Membership/Reciprocal-entry-sites/

Looks like you get a better deal being a Scottish member.

Can I claim half a TMN?

 

[Vidor06]

We joined a few months ago on a family package of two adults and two children. They sent us out two membership cards which I assumed was one plus a spare. But no, if we go to a property we are expected to bring both membership cards. One is mine and one is the wifes. Its not a huge inconvenience and the properties in NI are great but it is a bit silly that we have to produce two membership cards for a family membership.

 

[andytheflyer]

Those are all one's we have enjoyed often, we have Gumby Hall ( not much bgger than my old house} Belton House (good one that) Tattershall Castle ( 60 minutes and finished) Southwell Workhouse, take the talking thingy as 20 empty rooms takes up a lot of imagination.

Ah! A fellow yellerbelly (by adoption if not birth)! Done all those except Southwell - and ridden past Tattershall a few times....

 

[Milkfloat]

I enjoy going to the NT cafes, and betting how long it'll be till a middle aged dad walks away from the till, complaining audibly about how much it's cost him to pay for tea and cake for his wife, the in laws, and some pop for the kids

You must go to the same ones as me - I am that man.

 

[jazzkat]

I worked at the place at the south end of Windermere, for a few months earlier this year, to gain experience of public on boats. Lovely job, spoiled by "up themselves" management.
Come to think of it everyone I know who has worked or volunteered with NT says something similar. I believe management came to blows with a gardener at one place not 100 miles from Kendal.

I have a friend that was a manager and when he was made redundant a few years ago he got a rather enhanced package from them as he'd worked there a very long time and knew where many of the 'old skeletons' from the closet were buried, lol

 

[Fnaar]

You must go to the same ones as me - I am that man.

I was that man Now I take it as a challenge to channel those feelings into something positive ... like eating more cake.