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REDUNDANCIES AT THE NATIONAL TRUST

The coronavirus crisis has had a significant impact on The National Trust with almost every aspect of its income affected.

The trust expects to lose up to £200m this year as a result of the pandemic and has proposed a possible 1200 redundancies as it seeks to reduce its annual spend and the size of its workforce. When the country went into lockdown the charity closed all its houses, gardens, car parks, shops, cafes, holidays and stopped events, quickly losing tens of millions of pounds of support. As part of the review, the trust hopes to save £100m – almost a fifth of its annual spend – through