National Trust Scotland?

[QueenOfIce]

Looking to join the NT am I right in thinking if we join the Scotland NT which is cheaper we can use it all over the UK?

There are no offers on membership the Scrooge's!

Personally I’d be embarrassed to hand over the card if I wasn’t a genuine Scottish member.

I suppose as in OP’s case there’s a bit of leeway if visiting Scottish properties as much as or more than English, but basically this ^

My auntie works for NT and its always one of her pet peeves English visitors with Scottish membership.
Why? Its her employer's rules. Its nothing to do with her who her employer decides to let in

Thanks for this thread. We planned to join this year and I've just checked and over 60s membership is a lot cheaper with national trust Scotland, £72.00 instead of £114.00. There is no over 60s discount with English NT unless you've already been a member for 5 consecutive years.

So although I live in England I'm Scottish born and bred and therefore don't have a moral problem with my membership fees going towards maintaining Scottish heritage places. If people on the gate look like they're going to be sniffy about it I can dredge up my Scottish accent no trouble. It will make the day more fun.

Go for it! If it was such a big issue for NT England they would change the rules to stop entry by NT Scotland members. A huge advantage for families is that up to 6 children can be admitted on a family membership.

With regard to parking, many NT England properties have recently got rid of the car sticker for parking and have introduced pay-and-display machines which scan your NT England membership card and give you a parking ticket to display in your car. These machines don't work with NT Scotland membership cards. However when you become a NT Scotland member you will receive a car sticker to display in your car which is valid for free parking in England. I misplaced mine and was immediately sent 3 replacement car stickers.

I didn’t even know there was a Scottish national trust. I think Historic Scotland have more properties? But that’s not what you want it for anyway!

However when you become a NT Scotland member you will receive a car sticker to display in your car which is valid for free parking in England.
I can't find where it says that on the website. I know it used to be on there, but I can't find it now

We joined a couple of months ago and the car sticker came with the membership pack.

We joined a couple of months ago and the car sticker came with the membership pack
A lot of places in England don't let you use just the sticker any more, they are all moving over to pay and display machines where you scan your card and get a free sticker.
I read somewhere that they are phasing out stickers completely as it will save a lot of money.

I'm talking about car stickers for NT Scotland. They still use them and they are valid at NT England - we've used them successfully.

Scotland NT also don't allow fox hunting on their land where England NT do. One more reason to go with Scotland......or even NEw Zealand, which is even cheaper than Scotland!

My auntie works for NT and its always one of her pet peeves English visitors with Scottish membership

Does she quiz them on where they live? I have lived in Scotland for more than half my life, and therefore have National Trust for Scotland and Historic Scotland membership which I often use when visiting my mum in England. I still sound very English, especially when in England. Should I be boring staff with the explanation of why I happen to live 400 miles away from my mum so they don’t judge me? My mum uses her various English memberships that have reciprocal agreements when she visits me.

The property we visit most often scans cards at the gates. If your card doesn't scan (and i don't think the scottish ones do) you have to mess about going elsewhere to sort out your ticket. For that reason alone i'm happy to pay the extra.

Scotland NT also don't allow fox hunting on their land where England NT do

Well, no. Fox hunting is supposedly illegal in UK. English NT allow trail/drag hunting on some land which is different and shouldn’t result in any foxes being killed.

Ok, English NT are happy to turn a blind eye even when they are shown evidence of illegal fox hunting taking place on their land and continue to allow trail hunts which flout the law.

www.league.org.uk/news/fox-killed-during-hunt-at-national-trust-estate

We have the Scottish one as it's cheaper. And for those saying we're ripping off the English NT, it isn't exactly cheap, and we don't always save on the entrance fees as we don't go that often!

I have no problem with people having Scottish membership when they're not from Scotland as, generally speaking, they still spend money in the giftshop and cafe or put donations in the money box or pay for extra events (e.g., Santa) at their local properties.

If English NT reduced their prices they would probably sell more memberships.

If English NT reduced their prices they couldn’t afford the upkeep of so many properties. They have a hard enough time now to find money to restore and maintain the properties they have.

Actually the individual property benefits more from someone paying the gate price on the day.

Even if you are a member have a coffee or buy something from the shop. That’s a good way to ensure some money goes back into the property you are visiting.

You can but why would you.

The properties you will be visiting in England won't benefit from your money at all. So if everyone joins up to NT Scotland there won't be any properties left to visit in England because they won't have the funding needed to stay open.

For the sake of a few quid saving just do the right thing and join NT England.

And yes they will get money if you use the cafe, gift shop etc but they would get that on top of the membership if you joined the correct way.

But membership encourages visitors, I probably go to my local NT place more than 200 times a year as it is literally on my doorstep, so if they get £2 for every visit that is £400, plus endless cafe shops and buying of things I don't need in the gift shop.

The NT are really generous locally, they let us use it for park run, give free membership once or twice a year to locals on proof of address, helped the district council fight a big (overdevelopment) planning application.

Worth supporting in my view.

Free entrance, not membership!

But I have had NT properties tell me that parking isn’t included on Scottish properties. I need to find something written to prove it is. It’s much cheaper and makes it an affordable choice for us and gets kids out and about more.

I sacked off our NTScotland membership and joined HeritageNZ this year, about £50 for the family and includes admission to English Heritage properties too. No issues getting in anywhere, other than explaining repeatedly that no, we're not from New Zealand!

I have Scottish NT membership. Our local NT is
English but we Iive near the border and visit a lot of Scottish properties too so we went with which was cheapest.