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A lot of money now - but a bargain if you're young, particularly if inflation takes off.
With National Trust life membership there are more than 500 special places to explore and you can look forward to a lifetime of benefits.
Green gardens bursting with colour, historical castles and houses with stories to tell and cycle trails that lead you down an undiscovered path – you never know which place will win your heart.
And, thanks to the money from your membership we’ll be able to keep these places special for everyone, for ever.
National Trust life membership benefits:
Individual life membership
Includes free admission for one accompanying guest:
Individual life: £1,845
For an individual aged 60 or over:
Individual senior life: £1,380
Joint life membership
Two people, who are lifetime partners, living at the same address:
Joint life: £2,305
Where one of whom is aged 60 or over.
Joint senior life: £1,730
Family life membership
Two adults and all their children or grandchildren up to the age of 18. Adults must be lifetime partners, living at the same address. Under 5s go free.
Joint family life: £2,415
A lot of money now - but a bargain if you're young, particularly if inflation takes off.
With National Trust life membership there are more than 500 special places to explore and you can look forward to a lifetime of benefits.
Green gardens bursting with colour, historical castles and houses with stories to tell and cycle trails that lead you down an undiscovered path – you never know which place will win your heart.
And, thanks to the money from your membership we’ll be able to keep these places special for everyone, for ever.
National Trust life membership benefits:
- Free entry to over 500 places in our care
- Free parking at most National Trust car parks
- National Trust Handbook, full of information about our places
- National Trust Magazine three times a year, packed with inspiration, interviews and news
- Access to our online Members’ Area, full of first look previews and behind-the-scenes features
Individual life membership
Includes free admission for one accompanying guest:
Individual life: £1,845
For an individual aged 60 or over:
Individual senior life: £1,380
Joint life membership
Two people, who are lifetime partners, living at the same address:
Joint life: £2,305
Where one of whom is aged 60 or over.
Joint senior life: £1,730
Family life membership
Two adults and all their children or grandchildren up to the age of 18. Adults must be lifetime partners, living at the same address. Under 5s go free.
Joint family life: £2,415
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sorted byBut would you really go there all those times if you didn't have a membership? Surely if you have a membership then you feel you need to go all those times just to feel like you've got your monies worth?
Humanity won't last that long.
If you like going to the kinda places that the National Trust look after, then you're not really just going there to get your monies worth. You're right that if there is (say) an English Heritage site and a National Trust site in a specific area I will gravitate to the one where I don't need to pay any extra to get in. But for me there was no rush to get the value because I bought it in my 30s. YMMV.
Back in the 1970s these were £50 - that’s inflation for you.
And the average house price was £4000 in 1970 and £19000 by 1975 for comparison
i see what you mean - although i'm not necessarily seeing it as profit if i wasn't going to go there in the first place. lots of these sites are forests and gardens and manor houses - i'd literally have to go out of my way to go see them to try to make some ROI against my huge outlay for a lifetime membership.
To go serperately.
That last figure was 1980!
I wonder if it will be 750K min for 1 bed in 2040?
This is my thinking. I've maybe been to a handful of NT sites in the past decade.
Believe me, when you have a life membership you visit hundreds of times! Took us about 4 years to be in profit - because it covers 2 people.
According to sunlife..
"1980
Everything changed again. Margaret Thatcher gave people the right to buy their council houses. And house prices shot up like never before, reaching an average price of £20,268"
Just thinking with inflation (and hopefully a while to live yet!) It sounds like a no brainer if affordable?
These we’re, unbelievably, £50 in 1972 - now that WAS a bargain. Probably this will look much the same way in 2072!
Having spoken to them, it looks like that added admission was removed Jan 23, unfortunately. However the person on the phone did say that there had been -many- complaints and it was something the trust was looking into, in terms of reinstating potentially
They've also said (for those considering it) - that if you buy an individual and then have a family/partner in future, you would only have to pay the difference between the individual and joint/family memberships at that current time. (edited)
I've never known them change the terms of membership - or the price - within one admission year, running from 1 March to 28/29 February. Impossible to find any information about this change online, so any more information gratefully received.
It's almost as if they've sneaked this through, hiding the change so nobody sees it. English Heritage still offer the extra guest on a life membership, which makes that now perhaps more tempting for much the same price.
I do wonder if this was a change planned for 1 March 2023 which has been mistakenly applied too soon.
Agreed there seems to be no information though on this.