How much!!!

I'm a member of the National Trust for Scotland. Membership is reciprocal. Individual senior membership is £30.06; and senior joint membership is £41.40. I've been using my card in England for at least 20 years. And you don't have to live in Scotland as far as I know.

https://www.nts.org.uk/Membership/Monthly/

Thanks for that Pompa. That certainly makes it more reasonable, but there are very few NT properties in our area so I still think I'll give it a miss.

There's no reciprocity between NT in Scotland and Historic Scotland as we discovered when we tried to visit Stirling Castle on our NT card this summer. It cost us a fortune to get in....think it was in the order of £40.

Forgot to say that Morrisons dry cleans 4 items for £16 so we save them up until we have enough!

I took 3 dresses and a top to be dry cleaned after holidays two weeks ago....£47!! I said I could buy a new dress for that ( slight exaggeration). I had to tell them how much each item had cost

Two Christmas cards to the USA and one to Canada - £6.45.

Another difference between the two is that if you want to take your grandchildren to NT properties you have to pay full adult price, whereas with EH, you can take a classful of kids ( slight exaggeration, I think it's up to eight) even on reduced membership. I was told I could bring them in off the streets if I wanted to.
As a family we have both, as we go to Gibside quite regularly and Cragside occasionally, and Hadrian's Wall is mainly EH.

Regarding theatre - my young friend is a PE teacher, head of dept. And head off year. She also takes the drama class and contacted the local theatre to ask would they give her class a short tour of the theatre, which the theatre was happy to do. Next day she got a phone call offering 20 free tickets to bring her class to the current show.
Nice to hear of a freebie and also encouragement for young drama students.

There's been recent criticism of the National Trust which has increased its income by £4 million to £460 million. This is partly down to lucrative TV and film deals, such as Downton, Mr Turner and Game of Thrones.

Despite these very healthy profits, 2,000 of their workers are not paid the living wage and are really struggling. It's also felt that other skilled and knowledgeable staff members are not being appropriately rewarded. I think it's great that the organisation is doing so well but I do feel that their workers should be paid properly.