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Black Power biscuit workshops for five-year-olds. Is this what the National Trust should be focussing on? If you want a Trust that puts our heritage first, make your voice heard at the 2026 AGM. Supported Council candidates: Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing, Omrani.
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What should the National Trust’s priorities be? Black Power biscuit workshops for children or maintaining its properties?
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Members of the National Trust: vote online before 30 October.Don’t use the “Quick Vote” if you want to choose your candidates properly and individually. Restore Trust recommends: Mash Bonigala Georgia Cristea Lawrence Goldman Anthony Mealing Bijan Omrani
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☕ A café at the expense of history?... Plans to turn part of Croome’s RAF ambulance garage into a fast food café have sparked anger among volunteers. Is this how we should treat our wartime heritage? NT members: make your voice heard at this year’s AGM↓
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Restore Trust supports Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani in the 2026 Council election and asks that every candidate should be required to have a proposer and seconder.
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Keep the fire of tradition alive. Vote for conservation at the National Trust AGM 2026. Restore Trust supports: • Mash Bonigala • Georgia Cristea • Lawrence Goldman • Anthony Mealing • Bijan Omrani Back our members’ resolution too. ↓
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Our resolution: every candidate for the National Trust Council should be nominated and seconded by other members. Back our five supported candidates. Support our resolution. Help shape the Trust’s future. #RestoreTrust #NationalTrust
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Clandon Park: the National Trust plans to leave the fire-damaged interior in a wreck. Let's get the National Trust back to its core purpose. Restore Trust supports Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani in the 2026 Council election. #ClandonPark #NationalTrustAGM
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In 2021 the National Trust decided to close Shute Barton to the public. Members campaigned. It stayed open. That campaign was led by Bijan Omrani, who we are recommending for the Council. Vote Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing, Omrani. restoretrust.org.uk/agm-2026
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"The National Trust, too quick to bend in the wind of fashion, is making historical mistakes and confusing visitors." Lawrence Goldman on Dyrham Park. Vote Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani. Leave the Quick Vote unticked. restoretrust.org.uk/agm-2026
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Goldman's full article on Dyrham Park: historyreclaimed.co.uk/the-n…

Dyrham Park: How the National Trust Distorts Its Own History

William Blathwayt built Dyrham Park on state salaries, not slave plantations. Why the National Trust's colonial framing misreads the house and its Asafo flags.

historyreclaimed.co.uk
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Clandon Park before the fire, and what the National Trust proposes instead. Georgia Cristea says it is "contrary to the Trust's mission and sets a dangerous precedent" Vote Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani. Leave the Quick Vote unticked. restoretrust.org.uk/agm-2026
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Vote Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani for the NT Council. Leave the Quick Vote unticked. Mash Bonigala: "Heritage is not a building. It is the person inside it." Back our resolution: candidates should be nominated and seconded by members. restoretrust.org.uk/agm-2026
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National Trust Council voting is now open. You can vote for up to five. Our recommendations to protect the Trust: Mash Bonigala, Georgia Cristea, Lawrence Goldman, Anthony Mealing, Bijan Omrani. Leave the Quick Vote box unticked. Closes 11.59pm, 30 Oct. restoretrust.org.uk/agm-2026
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If Uppark received the same treatment after the fire of 1989 as the National Trust proposes for Clandon, what might it look like today? Thankfully, Uppark was not left as a managed ruin. So why is Clandon being treated differently? The Quick Vote decided it for you.
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EXCLUSIVE: National Trust AGM strategy has been leaked. Quick. Easy. Convenient. And absolutely terrible for member democracy.
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After the fire, Jonathan Jones wrote that there was “nothing elitist or obscure about immaculate architectural beauty”  and described Palladian architecture as speaking to something universal: symmetry, harmony, and wonder. That is exactly why the Marble Hall should be restored.
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The National Trust’s plans would leave much of the interior in its fire-damaged state, with new interventions, walkways, event spaces and visitor facilities imposed on what should be a restored historic house. This is not stewardship. It is surrender dressed up as innovation.
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The National Trust exists to protect historic buildings for the nation. Clandon Park was one of the great houses in the National Trust’s care. After the 2015 fire, members had every reason to expect a serious restoration effort.
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Sycamore Gap was loved because it was real: a living tree in a wild place — birdsong, wind, silence, sky. So why replace it with a man-made ‘sound sculpture’ on a slab of concrete, blasting recorded voices and artificial noise?
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