National Trust Discounts?

The national trust member offer is just a gift card on which you receive a discount. It does say it can be put towards membership, so I assume there will be some way of doing this, even if it is only at a NT property. In more normal times the NT often gave 15 months for the price of 12, however given the losses sustained during Covid, I suspect they may be a thing of the past. I can't find any mention on the NT website.

Sorry, can't help with National Trust, but if you would like to join English Heritage instead you can pay  with Tesco vouchers, and multiply the face value on the voucher by three. 

I think the national trust for Scotland  for one is about £10 a year cheaper?  which is valid in England/Wales 

National Trust tend to offer just the one price, although like others, they used to do a 15 months pay for twelve month deal for new Members. Beware their single entry fee prices at properties as well, they will automatically charge you the Gift Aid price, unless you state no.

On the plus side, they were excellent at giving Members a three month extension this year due to C19. Over 60’s need to ask for the senior price as well, otherwise it isn’t automatically applied.

It can be a bit of a wasteful organisation generally, and it has already announced staff redundancies due to Covid, but if you Tour a lot, and enjoy history and open spaces, it’s usually worth the Membership.

Cadw (Welsh version of EH) is the one to join. Cheaper than EH and Historic Scotland, and you get an automatic discount in their shops. Gets you into EH and HS half price first year, after that they are all free.

I was just going to mention about the Scottish National Trust, but JVB66 has already mentioned it above.

The other thing that might be worth mentioning is that if you just use the National Trust for car parking, parking is free if you have a Disabled Badge...

David

I think the general idea of joining the Scottish National Trust is that you mainly intend to visit Scottish NT properties but with the added bonus of free admission when you occasionally visit English NT properties - they are completely separate organisations.  With the English NT, over 60s get a senior discount (25% I think) once they have been members for 5 years.  It's great to know that your membership is helping to conserve wonderful houses, gardens and countryside for the future!

If you are over 60 then the difference for the first 5 years would be £30.

TBH we were members of the NTS but, due to the moral dilemma of enjoying mainly English properties and contributing nothing, we have now changed our allegiance.

We are life members of the NT,since 1998 ,which we have found seems to open a few more doors at events?

We stopped our NT membership about 9 years ago when we had our dog.  Although dogs are generally allowed in the grounds of NT properties, they are generally not allowed in the properties themselves.  She won't stay in the car for even a short period of time (separation anxiety etc), so we decided not to bother.  Since my knee operations, I now have a disabled badge which gets me into the property grounds and NT car parks (e.g. the one at Godrevy and the Lizard in Cornwall) free of charge.!

David