Our impact 2022 – 23

The National Trust exists to protect and care for places so people and nature can thrive.

The National Trust exists to protect and care for places so people and nature can thrive.

Key highlights from the year

Thanks to the generosity of our donors and funders, this was a record year for fundraising, with £110.4 million raised to help us care for more than 500 places and 1 million collection items.

A record year for conservation spending, with £179.6 million invested in projects including the reopened ‘Garden in the ruins’ at Nymans, Sussex, and an ambitious £7.4 million project at Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland.

We planted over 1 million trees which will each store 1 tonne of carbon per year, and created almost 17,000 hectares of new wildlife habitats by the end of 2022.

We worked in partnership with RSPB and WWF to commission the first UK-wide citizens’ assembly for nature: the People’s Plan for Nature.

The National Trust is for everyone: we made 1.7 million single-use free passes available to families to increase access to green spaces and beautiful places during what was yet another challenging year.

Our amazing volunteers donated a total of 3.4 million hours to support our cause.

We protect and preserve

Historic buildings

330 houses, including 192 historic houses

47 industrial monuments and mills, the sites of many factories and mines

11 lighthouses

41 castles and chapels

56 villages

37 medieval barns

39 pubs

Coast and countryside

We protect and preserve over
781 miles (1,257 kilometres) of coastline and approximately
250,433 hectares (618,833 acres)
of land, much of outstanding
natural beauty.

How we think about our history and what we’ve inherited has become more and more tied to the kind of society we want to be in the future…that’s why I think the Trust is so important.

Neil MacGregor OM AO FSA British Art historian

Every pound makes a difference.

Whether you’re one of our 5.7 million members, a donor, a grant giver or a paying visitor at one of our properties, you’re making a difference in helping the Trust protect speciual places and make them avalible for everyone to enjoy, for ever.

Thank you for your support.

Total income of £681.9m

£110.4m in fundraising income

£276.5m in membership income

£271.7m in commercial and direct property income

£23.3m in investment and other income

The money we raised

The money we spent

£342.1 million in Property Operating Costs
Opening our properties for people to enjoy and taking care of the day to day expenditure needed to make our places safe, welcoming and efficient.

£210.6 million* in Property Projects and Acquisitions
Conserving the special places in our care, acquiring and protecting new places for the nation. Includes £26.7m of acquisitions (click here for a list of the nationally-important places and collections now in our care).

£64.3 million* in Membership Costs
Administering our membership, reaching and recruiting new members and investing in the technology needed to produce the best membership experience we can.

£55.4 million* in Costs of trading of our subsidiary companies
The cost of generating the £74.1 million of income that our subsidiary companies raised: The National Trust (Enterprises) Limited, National Trust (Renewable Energy) Limited and Historic House Hotels Limited.

£50.6 million* in Internal Conservation and advisory services
Providing the specialist conservation skills and expertise that our places need to secure their long-term condition.

£10.4 million* in Fundraising costs and Investment Management fees
We spent £5.5 million on Investment Management fees. The Trust’s investments are a vitally important component of the long term funding of our properties. Fundraising costs of £4.7 million include the costs associated with our total fundraising income of over £110 million.

*Costs include allocated support services costs.