Get the National Trust
back to its real mission.
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Restore Trust is a forum where supporters and friends of the National Trust can come together to discuss their concerns about the future of the charity, and lobby for change. The past couple of years have been difficult and the National Trust needs the support of its members now more than ever.
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We want the National Trust’s focus and priorities not to be driven by modish, divisive ideologies but rather solely by its noble mandate (click here for the National Trust Acts). Guided by diverse expertise and scholarship, the Trust should preserve buildings, interiors, artefacts, gardens and countryside, whilst making these places accessible to all. With our help, it will reclaim its mission, do what it does best, and go from strength to strength.
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We are politically independent. The people who support us and help us in our campaign come from across the political spectrum and are diverse both in their backgrounds and their points of view.
By listening to each other we will be able to help the Trust’s leadership to focus on a vision that unites us all.
In the News…
It has always been one of the strengths of the Trust that the task it has set itself is so very specific, as defined in its Acts of Parliament, and in the clearly articulated objectives of its founders. The Trust was set up to hold property for permanent preservation. It is what distinguished the Trust from the Council for the Protection of Rural England, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, which are essentially propaganda organisations, not land-owning, land-managing ones. The need for a body with very simple aims was what led its founders to shape the Trust in the way they did. Octavia Hill knew from bitter personal experience that grander schemes often promised more, but produced less. She taught the Trust to treat each property as an entity, administratively and financially, to be managed in a methodical, efficient, down-to-earth way. This piece-by-piece approach to conservation is often far from glamorous. It offers no instant global solutions.
The National Trust: The First Hundred Years, 1994
Merlin Waterson
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At Restore Trust we rely on donations to do our work; we are most grateful for any contributions you are able to make to our cause.
We accept donations by card, by Paypal and by cheque. If you would like to donate by cheque, please write to us at contact@restoretrust.org.uk.
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The greatest power you have to bring about change is to be a member of the National Trust and vote in AGMs.