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By Jill Dando News National Trust gardeners are celebrating a bumper harvest of apples, pumpkins, and other produce, with crops ripening weeks earlier than usual. Despite the UK experiencing its hottest summer on record and widespread drought, orchard fruit and squash have flourished—thanks in part to a mix of
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By Community Correspondent Two years after the illegal felling of the iconic Sycamore Gap tree, the National Trust has launched a major creative commission, inviting artists and organisations to give new life to its salvaged timber. Once one of Britain’s most beloved and photographed trees, the sycamore stood in
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By Community Correspondent The number of new 18–25-year-olds choosing to join the National Trust grew 39% in the last year, the charity’s annual report, released today, has revealed. Young persons’ membership has experienced a surge over the last financial year (March 2024 – February 2025), with over 40,000
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By Jill Dando News Inner Farne, one of the Farne Islands cared for by the National Trust, has re-opened for visitors to enjoy the annual spectacle of seabirds returning to breed, with the first puffins spotted back on the islands. 2025 marks 100 years of the 28-island archipelago being in
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By Jill Dando News Every February half-term for the last nine years, visitors and families have helped to plant hundreds of thousands of snowdrops at the National Trust’s Wallington in Northumberland. On Sunday 2 March, visitors put on their gardening gloves one more time to help plant the final