Basildon Park THREE of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire s most historic buildings features in a National Trust report about links to colonialism and slavery. The report titled The Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the Care of the National Trust was first published last September. Two historical buildings in Berkshire are named in the document, including Ashdown House and Basildon Park. Cliveden House in Taplow, Buckinghamshire also appears on the document. Dr Sally-Anne Huxtable, Head Curator, National Trust said: From the sixteenth century, merchants had sought increasingly to consolidate their socio-economic and political status by acquiring country estates and marrying their children into the landed classes.
North West National Trust sites with links to slavery- and one is in Lancashire THE NATIONAL TRUST has come under fire in recent days for asking its volunteers to undergo diversity training. The organisation was trending on Twitter this morning (14 April) after people reportedly cancelled their memberships after being asked to take part in the ‘everyday inclusion training’ when they return for work after lockdown. British politican, David Kurten, took to Twitter to write: “I m very glad I cancelled my National Trust membership a few months ago and I m not paying for any more of their diversity training , unconscious bias and decolonisation rubbish.”
North West National Trust sites with links to slavery- and one is in Lancashire THE NATIONAL TRUST has come under fire in recent days for asking its volunteers to undergo diversity training. The organisation was trending on Twitter this morning (Tuesday) after people reportedly cancelled their memberships after being asked to take part in the ‘everyday inclusion training’ when they return for work after lockdown. British politican, David Kurten, took to Twitter to write: “I m very glad I cancelled my National Trust membership a few months ago and I m not paying for any more of their diversity training , unconscious bias and decolonisation rubbish.”
North West National Trust sites with links to slavery- and one is in Lancashire THE NATIONAL TRUST has come under fire in recent days for asking its volunteers to undergo diversity training. The organisation was trending on Twitter this morning (14 April) after people reportedly cancelled their memberships after being asked to take part in the ‘everyday inclusion training’ when they return for work after lockdown. British politican, David Kurten, took to Twitter to write: “I m very glad I cancelled my National Trust membership a few months ago and I m not paying for any more of their diversity training , unconscious bias and decolonisation rubbish.”
Charity Commission finds National Trust did not breach charity law
The Charity Commission has concluded its compliance case involving the National Trust, finding that there are no grounds for regulatory action against the charity.
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11 March 2021
However, the regulator has welcomed the charity’s commitment to learning lessons from its recent experience, and its ongoing commitment to take into account a wide range of views and opinions within its membership and wider society.
The regulator opened a regulatory compliance case in September 2020, after the Trust published an interim report examining links between its properties and histories of colonialism and slavery that led to public criticism of the charity (‘Interim Report on the Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the Care of the National Trust, including Links with Historic Slavery’, September 2020).