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As a charity we need your help to protect the UK's best-loved places in our care, to ensure they remain special for everyone

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Ways to give

You can support our valuable conservation work as a charity in many ways. From making a general donation to supporting an appeal, giving in memory to doing your own fundraising, or even taking part in one of our raffles, find your way to give.

Membership and visitor income makes a vital contribution to the upkeep of the amazing places you love, but we rely on your additional generosity to continue to protect the irreplaceable. In our 125th year, we need you more than ever - thank you. 

Celebrating 125 years
Volunteering at Derwentwater, Cumbria

We've come a long way together 

In our 125th anniversary year, we're celebrating how much we’ve achieved together. However you support the National Trust, it’s thanks to you, and the generations before you, that we’re able to care for nature, beauty and history, for everyone, for ever.

Discover 125 years of milestones
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Walking in the garden at Ickworth, Suffolk

Leaving a gift in your will 

From historic houses to coastal pathways, flowering fens to rugged moorland, gifts in wills are used right at the heart of our work. You can help care for the places that are special to you by remembering us in your will and leaving a lasting legacy.

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Runners competing in the Great North Run

Take part in the Great North Run 2020 

Want to run the iconic Great North Run this year? We're looking for supporters to take part and raise money for the places that make us feel special. Sign up now and run the Great North Run 2020 for the National Trust.

Run the Great North Run for us
Abseiling at Souter Lighthouse and The Leas, Tyne & Wear

Join in with some fundraising fun 

In this special anniversary year for the Trust, we’d love you to join our 125 challenge and raise £125 for the landscapes you love. The wildlife, nature and heritage we care for is made of incredible stuff – what are you made of? Find out more and request your free fundraising pack today.

Fundraise for us

Make a commemorative gift

Visitors walking in the Winter Garden at Dunham Massey, Cheshire

In memory gifts 

You can remember a loved one and their connection to beautiful places in many meaningful ways. Let us help you make the perfect tribute with a gift in memory of someone special.

Bride and groom smiling as they walk down the aisle together

In celebration gifts 

Whether you’re searching for an unique wedding gift, or the perfect way to mark a special occasion, why not donate in celebration to the National Trust and help us look after the landscapes we all love?

Fundraising in your community

Visitors looking at books

Support our second-hand bookshops 

We all love discovering a new book we just can't put down. And when you buy or donate a second-hand book at one the places we look after, you're supporting our vital conservation work too.

Visitors enjoying easter craft activities at Tredegar House, Newport, Wales

Nine fundraising ideas everyone can do 

Thinking of fundraising for special places, but not sure where to start? We’ve got nine fundraising ideas to make your event a winner. From old favourites to unique challenges, which fundraising idea will you choose?

More ways to give

A frosty morning at Bateman's, Burwash, East Sussex

Raffles 

Funds raised through our raffles help us to look after the landscapes you love, now and in the future. We run our Special Places Raffle from March to November, plus three seasonal membership raffles every year.

Blickling lake in winter

Philanthropy 

Philanthropy plays a pivotal role in the National Trust. For more information, please contact the Philanthropy team by emailing Eleanor.Davis@nationaltrust.org.uk or calling 01793 817703.

Quarry Bank House and the mill in winter at Quarry Bank Mill, Cheshire

Giving from overseas 

If you live overseas you can still support our work by donating to any of our current appeals online. And if you're in the USA you can make a donation via the Royal Oak Foundation.

Morning mist in the parkland at Knole, Kent

How you've helped 

Thanks to your ongoing support we're able to continue our vital conservation work. Discover our recent success stories and how your donations help protect the places you love for everyone, for ever.

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Membership and visitor income makes a vital contribution to the upkeep of our amazing places, but we rely on your additional generosity to continue to protect the irreplaceable for everyone

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