Cotswold Outdoor: our exclusive walking partner

Close up of a walker's boots with a group of walkers in the background as they climb up Pen yr Ole Wen, Carneddau and Glyderau, Gwynedd, Wales — Hikers taking a break up a mountain | © National Trust Images / Arnhel de Serra

We’re delighted to be working with Cotswold Outdoor as our exclusive walking partner. Find out how their support makes a huge contribution to our work to look after special outdoor places for everyone to enjoy.

Inspiring the nation

Cotswold Outdoor has been helping customers get outdoors for more than 40 years now, offering expert advice and an unrivalled range of kit for all sorts of active adventures. We share their love of nature and a passion for the great outdoors.

Since our partnership began in 2015, our friends at Cotswold Outdoor have helped us look after precious walking landscapes and trails, inspiring more people to get outside and enjoy them.

Helping us care for special places

Through our ongoing partnership, we continue our efforts to inspire the nation into exploring, discovering and enjoying more of Britain’s coast and countryside, safely and responsibly. Cotswold Outdoor gives us funding to help care for walking trails so that more people can access the countryside. Plus, when you use your National Trust supporter discount code, up to 5 per cent of the purchase price goes back into helping us look after the places you love to explore.

At Cotswold Outdoor, we believe people are happier when they actively escape into the outdoors. That’s why we are proud to support the National Trust with its work to look after nature, beauty and history for everyone to enjoy. It’s exciting for us to be partnered with an organisation who are as passionate about the outdoors as we are.

A quote by Greg NieuwenhuysCotswold Outdoor CEO

A group of four women along a path, in the background, down a hill is a reservoir — A walking group taking in the views at Marsden Moor, West Yorkshire | © National Trust Images / Annapurna Mellor

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Cotswold Outdoor started life in 1974 as Cotswold Camping, selling a range of basic camping accessories from a small outbuilding in the Cotswolds. Forty years later, the company is an award-winning multi-channel retailer with stores throughout the UK.

Passion for the outdoors is at the heart of their ethos. From climbing the Old Man of Hoy to cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats, Cotswold Outdoor staff are brought together by a love for anything and everything outdoors.

Discount for National Trust supporters

National Trust supporters receive a 15% discount at Cotswold Outdoor. This can be redeemed in store and online when you sign up to Cotswold Outdoor’s free Explore More benefits scheme. This offer expires on 30 September 2026, but may be extended. Details on how to claim the offer are below.

What is the discount?

National Trust supporters receive a 15% discount at Cotswold Outdoor, in store and online when you sign up to Cotswold Outdoor’s free Explore More benefits scheme.

This is not to be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount. Selected lines are exempt. Partnership discount is only available to National Trust supporters signed up to the Cotswold Outdoor Explore More benefits scheme. Further details of exempt lines and full terms are available below.

Offer expires on 30 September 2026 or may be extended.

How to sign up and use the discount in store

To sign up to Explore More as a National Trust supporter in store, you will need to produce evidence that you are a current National Trust supporter (which may include your membership card, a magazine or handbook, letter from the National Trust or a receipt from a National Trust property (‘Supporter Proof’)).

You are then eligible to join Explore More as a National Trust supporter and will be identified as a National Trust supporter on your Explore More account.

When you are identified as a National Trust supporter on your Explore More account, for in- store purchases you will just need to present your Explore More card at the point of purchase to activate the discount and do not need to provide further proof that you are a National Trust supporter at the point of purchase.

You will automatically receive the National Trust discount on production of your Explore More card.

How to sign up and use the discount online

You can also join Explore More online, by clicking here: https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/account/registration-page.html.

If you are a National Trust supporter and are registering for Explore More online, you must contact Cotswold Outdoor’s customer service at enquiries@cotswoldoutdoor.com , enclosing a copy of your Supporter Proof (which may include your membership card, a magazine or handbook, letter from the National Trust or a receipt from a National Trust property) or show that Supporter Proof in store.

Cotswold Outdoor will then identify you as a National Trust supporter on your Explore More account.

When you purchase online before 30 September 2026, in order to receive the discount you will need to use the code AF-NT-AF when prompted for a discount code at the point of purchase.

How does it benefit the National Trust?

When you use your discount up to 5% of the purchase price is returned to the National Trust to help look after the places you love to explore. In exceptional circumstances, up to 7% of the purchase price may be payable.

The National Trust also gets 50p for each person who identifies themselves as a National Trust supporter within 30 days of sign up to Explore More.

Offer duration

Offer expires 30.09.2026 or as may be extended (the Offer Term).

Where you are identified as a National Trust supporter on your Explore More account, that will remain valid, and you will be eligible to receive the partnership discount, for the period identified on your National Trust membership card (where you provided a relevant membership card) or for 12 months from the date that you showed your Supporter Proof (where you provided other relevant proof).

Once that period has expired, you will need to provide new Supporter Proof (as set out above) in order to continue to be identified as a National Trust supporter on your Explore More card and to continue to receive the partnership discount.

You can provide that Supporter Proof in store or by emailing Cotswold Outdoor’s customer services.

Once Cotswold Outdoor has received Your Supporter Proof your status as a National Trust supporter will be renewed on your Explore More card for the periods set out above.

Exclusions

The discount cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount. Selected lines are exempt and included lines are subject to availability for the Offer Term.

Partnership discount also cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount.

Further exclusions apply, including but not limited to the partnership discount cannot be used in respect of the following products and services:

Courses/Events supplied by Outdoor and Cycle Concepts Ltd. Gift Cards & Vouchers
Postage
Rock Bottom goods Sale item
special ordered goods
Electronic items

Selected lines (including Brompton, Specialized, SoulPad and Garmin brands, and where stated on selected items)

Bikes and Turbo Trainers Cycle to Work Scheme Finance payment option.

Partnership discount is only valid for current National Trust supporters who have signed up to the Cotswold Outdoor’s free Explore More benefits scheme and who are identified as a National Trust supporter on their Explore More account or who use the discount code AF-NT-AF when purchasing online.

For further information on the Explore More scheme and the terms and conditions of use please visit Explore More Terms & Conditions – Cotswold Outdoor. Explore More is free to join for National Trust supporters and provides additional benefits, including an extended 3-year warranty, 100 days for returns and much more.

These terms and conditions shall apply wherever the partnership discount is applied.