Anyone here work for the National Trust?
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Can't really help with your question, but we've been to around 100 NT properties, (in fact we are going to one today), and I think the volunteers do a wonderful job, guides, gardeners etc.
Paid work? I would imagine it's a very rewarding job, feeling that you are doing your "bit", but if it's anything like English Heritage the pay is pretty poor, they were advertising for a highly qualified architect with lots of letters after their name, and the pay was around 24k.
Paid work? I would imagine it's a very rewarding job, feeling that you are doing your "bit", but if it's anything like English Heritage the pay is pretty poor, they were advertising for a highly qualified architect with lots of letters after their name, and the pay was around 24k.
Used to work for them about 7 years ago. Nothing senior, just working in the ticket office.
Generally my feeling was that central office at Swindon were okay, if not a bit disconnected from the individual properties, tended to view a lot of things in silos (East of England, south coast etc).
If you're going to for something related to an individual property then that can be more problematic as you're ultimately under the control of whoever's head of the property/estate and they can be very hit and miss. The guy at my property couldn't have motivated the team out of a paper bag, tried to make a lot of on-the-ground decisions from the comfort of his office (such as trying to halve the size of the ticket office, because he never ventured out during busy days and thus never saw the queue that snaked around that part of the building), and managed to p
s off a lot volunteers by talking at or over them.
Never had much to do with the middle management lot that ran specific regions (i.e. East of England) but from what I heard from my line manager they could be quite enthusiastic about their region and viewed neighbouring regions with a certain degree of friendly competition.
Didn't have a pension as I was just on a 9 month contract with an hourly wage. At that level the wages were par with a lot of other customer service roles, it's once you start getting higher that you spot the paid-well-under-market-rate jobs.
As with so many places it's all about your team and your superiors, we had a great team and for the most part I really enjoyed my time there.
Generally my feeling was that central office at Swindon were okay, if not a bit disconnected from the individual properties, tended to view a lot of things in silos (East of England, south coast etc).
If you're going to for something related to an individual property then that can be more problematic as you're ultimately under the control of whoever's head of the property/estate and they can be very hit and miss. The guy at my property couldn't have motivated the team out of a paper bag, tried to make a lot of on-the-ground decisions from the comfort of his office (such as trying to halve the size of the ticket office, because he never ventured out during busy days and thus never saw the queue that snaked around that part of the building), and managed to p
s off a lot volunteers by talking at or over them.Never had much to do with the middle management lot that ran specific regions (i.e. East of England) but from what I heard from my line manager they could be quite enthusiastic about their region and viewed neighbouring regions with a certain degree of friendly competition.
Didn't have a pension as I was just on a 9 month contract with an hourly wage. At that level the wages were par with a lot of other customer service roles, it's once you start getting higher that you spot the paid-well-under-market-rate jobs.
As with so many places it's all about your team and your superiors, we had a great team and for the most part I really enjoyed my time there.
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