Question 1

Tell me more about the National Trust

Jo Nancarrow · Accepted Answer

About the National Trust
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk

The National Trust is one of the UK’s largest Charities founded in 1895 by three people who saw the importance of the nation’s heritage and open spaces and wanted to protect them for everyone to enjoy. Over 120 years later the National Trust looks after special places throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland ensuring that they are accessible for everyone, for ever. The charity’s Strategy is currently focussing on Everyone Welcome and Climate Action.

The National Trust owns and looks after coastline, forests, woods, fens, beaches, farmland, moorland, islands, archaeological remains, nature reserves, villages, historic houses, gardens, mills and pubs. Places and sites are restored, protected and opened so that everyone can experience them. For the Trust, conservation has always gone hand-in-hand with public access. In total the Trust manages:

– 780 miles of coastline
– Over 248,000 hectares of land
– Over 500 historic houses, castles, ancient monuments, gardens and parks and nature reserves

The National Trust is constantly developing its engagement programmes and marketing approach to engage a greater diversity of visitors and volunteers, as well as aiming to increase the diversity of interpretation and curatorial approaches to their properties and collections. Collaborating with organisations such as ECDP is core to this approach, aiming to explore new concepts and reach new communities who may not have engaged with the National Trust and its portfolio of properties and sites before. This commission for Hatfield Forest will provide a unique opportunity for an artist or artists to explore key themes, engaging local communities and visitors and creating some challenging new work.

Essex Cultural Diversity Project and the National Trust are working together to broaden access to inclusive and diverse arts, culture and heritage across the Trust’s Essex and Suffolk Countryside portfolio of properties, of which Lavenham Guildhall is one. The National Trust has hosted five commissions to date as part of Essex Cultural Diversity Project’s Arts Council England funded NPO commissioning programme, which provides an opportunity for creative practitioners to create new work, explore diversity and develop their socially engaged and participatory practices. Projects aim to capture the spirit of place, and connect with diverse and local communities.

Question 2

Tell me more about the National Trust

Jo Nancarrow · Accepted Answer

About the National Trust
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk

The National Trust is one of the UK’s largest Charities founded in 1895 by three people who saw the importance of the nation’s heritage and open spaces and wanted to protect them for everyone to enjoy. Over 120 years later the National Trust looks after special places throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland ensuring that they are accessible for everyone, for ever. The charity’s Strategy is currently focussing on Everyone Welcome and Climate Action.

The National Trust owns and looks after coastline, forests, woods, fens, beaches, farmland, moorland, islands, archaeological remains, nature reserves, villages, historic houses, gardens, mills and pubs. Places and sites are restored, protected and opened so that everyone can experience them. For the Trust, conservation has always gone hand-in-hand with public access. In total the Trust manages:

– 780 miles of coastline
– Over 248,000 hectares of land
– Over 500 historic houses, castles, ancient monuments, gardens and parks and nature reserves

The National Trust is constantly developing its engagement programmes and marketing approach to engage a greater diversity of visitors and volunteers, as well as aiming to increase the diversity of interpretation and curatorial approaches to their properties and collections. Collaborating with organisations such as ECDP is core to this approach, aiming to explore new concepts and reach new communities who may not have engaged with the National Trust and its portfolio of properties and sites before. This commission for Hatfield Forest will provide a unique opportunity for an artist or artists to explore key themes, engaging local communities and visitors and creating some challenging new work.

Essex Cultural Diversity Project and the National Trust are working together to broaden access to inclusive and diverse arts, culture and heritage across the Trust’s Essex and Suffolk Countryside portfolio of properties, of which Lavenham Guildhall is one. The National Trust has hosted five commissions to date as part of Essex Cultural Diversity Project’s Arts Council England funded NPO commissioning programme, which provides an opportunity for creative practitioners to create new work, explore diversity and develop their socially engaged and participatory practices. Projects aim to capture the spirit of place, and connect with diverse and local communities.