English or Scottish National Trust?

Jaws123

We have had membership for English National Trust as it's a great way to go out as a family which doesn't cost the earth.
The first year tends to be discounted by 25% in spring but then you go to full price the next year.
So what we do is sign up new every year to take advantage of that offer.

Another option is now the Scottish National Trust which lets you see the same properties.

My calculation is

England Nat Trust,
£78 in one go and cashback 3.15%
for first year and then £104
unless we cancel again, like we tend to do.

National Trust Scotland
Annual DD £69.40
costs monthly direct debit £6.00 (total cost £72.00 over 12 months includes 25% first year discount)
so afterwards £96.

So that means we could save about £9 if we went for annual DD and then behave the same way as before (cancel and sign up new).

Only dilemma is if any of the properties we visit here in England will be supported at all. I assume not. What to do? Would like to have the money to pay more but the budget shows we should cut where we can really.

pumpkin-head

NTS has a reciprocal agreement with the NT and other similar organisations if that's what you're wondering. Likewise Historic Scotland and its English equivilant, whose name escapes me.

http://www.nts.org.uk/Site/Membership/Reciprocal-entry-sites/

d70cw6

New Zealand

http://www.heritage.org.nz/get-involved/~/link.aspx?_id=A79E087FB9A44AA0A2566D2E70CC58CC&_z=z

Cardholder(s) resident overseas:

Family (two adults at same address, and includes school-age children if you have any) $95
Individual $89
Joint Senior Citizen (retired person 60 years or over, plus one other person at same address) $72
Senior Citizen (retired person 60 years or over) $66
Student (full time)/Unwaged $66
Life $1206
Joint Life (two adults at same address) $1566

pumpkin-head

Oh, I think I get it now - you mean that your local NT properties won't see the benefits of your membership money if you join NTS? No, probably not.