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To: National Trust and government
Furlough Redundancies in The National Trust
The National Trust should not be making mass redundancies of furloughed staff in October. The government have paid most of the wages since March to prevent this; so it’s seems hypocritical for a large institution to be making cuts in staff particularly when the areas they are cutting make money for the NT. Lots of people like myself and family have continued to pay our subscriptions to prevent this happening.
Why is this important?
My husband has been a volunteer for 10 years at a NT nursery. It’s run mainly by volunteers with a small paid staff. This has been a lifeline for many volunteers. These people work together as a team. The nursery makes money and over the last few years the infrastructure and reputation that the nursery has built has made it successful and profitable for the NT. The profits have helped the NT. They sell plants to customers in their gift shops- the money made is ploughed back into the NT and the houses they support.
Cornwall has suffered during this Covid pandemic. Lots of people depend on work which is below the national average, we need to keep these people at work. The NT should be looking at keeping their people employed- it’s the staff and their volunteers that keep our heritage alive.
