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Does anyone know if you get given a membership number as soon as you sign up online for a national trust membership? Via email. Or do you have to wait for the details to be send in the post?
 
My memory is that you immediately get a confirmation email with your membership details, your membership card follows in due course. Hope that helps.
 
Think the confirmation email acts as a temp card (from memory).

Then card(s) and window sticker arrive in post. Worth knowing that busier places (at least here in Cornwall) want the card shown at entry for parking, as well as the window sticker.
 
If you are joining soon. Take a look at the National Trust for Scotland. It's a lot cheaper and you get free admission to all the
(English) National Trust sites. The downside is no free car parking but it might work out for you.
 
Mr Perceptive said:
Another cheaper option is to join at Housesteads as this is a shared site with English Heritage, the NT annual membership is price matched to the EH one, saving about £20 on an NT joint membership annual fee
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Unfortunately it will cost £40 in fuel to drive to housesteads. :)
 
thank you all very much.

Car parking is one of the reasons for member ship.
 
zendog said:
If you are joining soon. Take a look at the National Trust for Scotland. It's a lot cheaper and you get free admission to all the
(English) National Trust sites. The downside is no free car parking but it might work out for you.
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Knew about it being cheaper, but didn't know about the car parking ...
 
Wissel said:
Think the confirmation email acts as a temp card (from memory).

Then card(s) and window sticker arrive in post. Worth knowing that busier places (at least here in Cornwall) want the card shown at entry for parking, as well as the window sticker.
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That ( I work for the Trust so i can say definitively - though all comments/opinions are my own yadda yadda) , its also worth noting that if you have the confirming email but have not yet recieved your cards many Trust visitor receptions will give you a car sticker if you talk to them nicely

Its also worth noting that if you join at a site instead of online you will get you welcome pack, handbook and car stickers straight away, also if you join at a property that property will get the majority of your first years subscription in their budget, so its well worth it if you have a favourite place you want to help protect
 
When we visited the NT place at Aberdaron guys there told us the NT were thinking of scrapping the car stickers as so many of them had gone missing.
 
and if you are joining online you could save a few quid going through quidco
 
nog said:
When we visited the NT place at Aberdaron guys there told us the NT were thinking of scrapping the car stickers as so many of them had gone missing.
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They havent scrapped them yet we are definitely issuing them this year....
 
big soft moose said:
They havent scrapped them yet we are definitely issuing them this year....
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Yeah got one on our car, just what we were told. We had just changed car and forgot to put sticker on new car, asked for a sticker at Aberdaro and they gave us one but told us about possibly scrapping them
 
National Trust greetings cards usually come with a free tea for two voucher, five pack for a tenner, tea costs more than that and you get five nice cards into the bargain
 
tijuana taxi said:
National Trust greetings cards usually come with a free tea for two voucher, five pack for a tenner, tea costs more than that and you get five nice cards into the bargain
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Tight arse - you are supposed to send the voucher with the card :lol:

That said a lot of Trust tearooms do a loyalty card thing like costa , where after you've bought X many drinks you get another one free (I don't know the detail because being staff i'm not eligible for it)
 
I give them to my daughter, she has NT membership, in fact she is using one today
 
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MrDrizz said:
Does anyone know if you get given a membership number as soon as you sign up online for a national trust membership? Via email. Or do you have to wait for the details to be send in the post?
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I joined recently and they gave me a temporary card that is valid up to 3 months, then I got an email confirmation and within a week I got the actual card. It was all very efficient.
 
big soft moose said:
That ( I work for the Trust so i can say definitively - though all comments/opinions are my own yadda yadda) , its also worth noting that if you have the confirming email but have not yet recieved your cards many Trust visitor receptions will give you a car sticker if you talk to them nicely

Its also worth noting that if you join at a site instead of online you will get you welcome pack, handbook and car stickers straight away, also if you join at a property that property will get the majority of your first years subscription in their budget, so its well worth it if you have a favourite place you want to help protect
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Wish I'd read that earlier, I've signed up online. Got the email and all is good. I'd have thought I'd be given a membership number too?

Regarding the stickers, if they issues membership number people could just use that in their cars?
 
zendog said:
If you are joining soon. Take a look at the National Trust for Scotland. It's a lot cheaper and you get free admission to all the
(English) National Trust sites. The downside is no free car parking but it might work out for you.
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I have the Scottish NT membership had it for 6 month's now and you can park for free at all the English sites. I emailed them first to check before I signed up.

Andy
 
nog said:
and if you are joining online you could save a few quid going through quidco
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I joined a few years ago through Topcashback and after the cutback it only cost around £20 each for two of us if I recall correctly. And we were members as soon as rejoined online as per other posts.
 
Byker28i said:
Wrong reason - NT have some of the best cafe's, tea and cake shops :D
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I like this man's thinking !! We only go to either local NT sites, or ones with very good tea rooms !! Also, remember that the Farne Islands are an NT site, so you don't have to pay for landing, just the boat trip :)
 
Thunderbird010 said:
I have the Scottish NT membership had it for 6 month's now and you can park for free at all the English sites. I emailed them first to check before I signed up.
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Andy

It's a while since I looked at this but back then I found a statement on the \Scottish website saying car parking was not included.
So can you now get into the NT car parks including the non site ones in national parks?
How does this work in practice - car sticker?

Cheers
Steve
 
I've had a membership twice and never had a problem parking.

Just show my membership card at the pay kiosk.

Andy
 
Thunderbird010 said:
I've had a membership twice and never had a problem parking.

Just show my membership card at the pay kiosk.

Andy
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Same here. We've been members of the Scottish Trust since about 2007, and never had any problems parking in NT properties for free.
 
Been a member for years, don't condone parking fees, when they started it up here in Scotland it was free for members displaying their window sticker, don't know if it's changed but how could it be enforced (up here) anyway?

I'd be saying I've paid enough as it is and as for day visitors, if I was one, i'd be fuming to be asked to pay for parking.
 
tom24 said:
Been a member for years, don't condone parking fees, when they started it up here in Scotland it was free for members displaying their window sticker, don't know if it's changed but how could it be enforced (up here) anyway?

I'd be saying I've paid enough as it is and as for day visitors, if I was one, i'd be fuming to be asked to pay for parking.
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If it's a site where there is an entrance fee, then parking is generally includes (I believe).

There are a number of sites where the NT maintain a presence at sites where there is no entrance fee - the ones I know of are areas of coastline in Cornwall / Devon - there is a visitors centre, toilets, etc, but the coastal paths and beaches are free to enter and use. There the NT has a parking fee of £2-£3 to help cover costs (but free to members). It's a lot cheaper than most beach car parks, and going to a much better cause!
 
This is an interesting thread for me as our camera club regularly go the NT properties and as I am not a member it cost me a fortune to keep going. DO I understand it right the Scottish NT gets you in to NT properties and parking free?
 
Downton Mini said:
This is an interesting thread for me as our camera club regularly go the NT properties and as I am not a member it cost me a fortune to keep going. DO I understand it right the Scottish NT gets you in to NT properties and parking free?
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Yes, it's a reciprocal membership Mark.
 
I've had a "couples" membership for years now.
Even if we never visited any of the houses or gardens etc, we would still get our value by the savings we make on parking at a few of the beaches in Cornwall each year.
Some of the beaches car parks are around £5 a day.
NT membership is a bargain IMHO.

And of course the Trust depends on membership, and donations to maintain it's properties.
Win Win.
 
tom24 said:
Been a member for years, don't condone parking fees, when they started it up here in Scotland it was free for members displaying their window sticker, don't know if it's changed but how could it be enforced (up here) anyway?

I'd be saying I've paid enough as it is and as for day visitors, if I was one, i'd be fuming to be asked to pay for parking.
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99.9% of places the parking is free for members - where it isnt its generally because the Trust doesnt own the car park or where the site is run in conjunction with another body

as to non members , why should they not pay for parking - given that car parks cost money to build and maintain ...
 
big soft moose said:
99.9% of places the parking is free for members - where it isnt its generally because the Trust doesnt own the car park or where the site is run in conjunction with another body

as to non members , why should they not pay for parking - given that car parks cost money to build and maintain ...
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I can see why in a place with no entrance fee, I felt it a bit much as an addition, my example was in relation to my local place, Culzean.
 
tom24 said:
I can see why in a place with no entrance fee, I felt it a bit much as an addition, my example was in relation to my local place, Culzean.
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I don't know culzean and its NTS not NT , but looking at their website it looks like they are charging for the country park with an additional fee for the castle (so for an adult non member its £15 castle and park or £10 park only) which is another way of dealing wit the core issue - ie that people park and use the park (thus adding to the wear and tear on the infrastructure which someone has to pay to maintain) without going through the pay boundary at the built property
 
check in your junk mail folder mate. most of the time it lands there from NT and the mail comes immediately
 
This thread has reminded me to it's not long until Stourhead starts to turn colurful. About time I joined the NT again as its only ten miles away and I havent been for a few years.
 
Giles2373 said:
This thread has reminded me to it's not long until Stourhead starts to turn colurful. About time I joined the NT again as its only ten miles away and I havent been for a few years.
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I try and go a few times a year, stunning place!
 
NT, wonderful, and the staff, especially the volunteers are great. We go to as many places as possible. I recently went to Salzburg Castle and paid a quid for a very informative guided tour around the castle :)

Highly recommended.

Cheers.
 
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