Our professional staff run the properties and the wider organisation. Our governance volunteers serve on a range of groups intended to support our staff and hold them to account. Of these groups the starting point is the Board of Trustees, which agrees, plans and holds the staff to account for their delivery. The Council appoints the Board, holds it to account and debates wider issues of policy. Other groups include Board committees, expert Panels and
Regional Advisory Boards.
The National Trust is a registered charity that was founded in 1895 to preserve places of historic interest or natural beauty permanently for the nation to enjoy. It protects and opens to the public historic houses, gardens, industrial monuments & mills and looks after forests, woods, fens, farmland, moorland, nature reserves, coastlines and old villages. This meant it wasn’ t sufficient to address the surface problems alone – the team had to work to retain and protect older layers beneath the Tudor facade.
The conservation programme started in 1988, lasted 15 years and cost £ 10 million, with 40 per cent grant-aided funding from English Heritage and the rest from public appeal.