English heritage or national trust?

[Wellthisiscrapeh]

Dh and dd birthday are on the same day, this year PIL want to get us all something we can use and have offered a national trust or English heritage yearly pass so we can have some cheap days out.

I’ve got so much horrible stuff going on at the moment, I just can’t think, which do people think are better?

We are in the West Midlands, (Black country) and have a car.

Thank you.

Also
"Caught between the rock of their own very high standards and the hard place of not having limitless funds, the National Trust began insisting that any house they took on came with a sufficient endowment. This was formalised in 1968 as the ‘Chorley formula’ (after Roger Chorley who created it and later served as chairman from 1991-1995) which calculates the endowment required, taking in to account expected high-level maintenance and repairs, likely revenues, workers wages and many other factors."

@that1970shouse - formalised does not mean introducing a new practice.

What's your EH source?

Their own website.

I think the term operational surplus (a small one) is misleading. It refers to the cost of operating - ie opening and running - manned sites. It does not mean overall profit. £50m of the £80m set up grant from Government was to cover the most urgent elements of the conservation backlog EH had at the time - a tip of the iceberg. The NT wouldn't touch with a barge pole the vast majority of sites that EH runs - because they need so much investment.

Anyway - we've probably derailed this thread enough! Op will understandably no doubt choose the organisation that she thinks will give her personally the most vfm.

Whichever you choose, hope you get a lot of benefit and enjoyment, OP.

@balalake

Whichever you choose, hope you get a lot of benefit and enjoyment, OP.

Thank you.

We asked for NT after doing some research, their birthdays are next week so we are looking forward to using it!

I must admit, I was ignorant of the things spoken about on this thread.

I have a grandparent who likes both. She is a permanent NT member and, as there just isn't so much EH, takes a membership out of that every two or three years. With EH I think she takes it out to run from the latter part of one summer to the middle of the next.

National trust, because they have more car parks next to beaches.