Reducing carbon

Regarding Barry Doe’s comment piece ‘National Trust ceases to consider public transport’ ( The

Fare Dealer, RAIL 903).

Firstly, please be assured of the Trust’s commitment to tackling climate change and nature decline. You may have seen at the beginning of the year that the National Trust unveiled one of the

UK’s biggest woodland expansion and tree planting projects, as part of a plan to become carbon net zero by 2030.

We agree that greener forms of transport will have a key role to play in tackling climate change. We will demonstrate at our places that there are ways to reduce individuals’ carbon footprints through energy saving and lifestyle changes that are relatively easy to adopt.

We have begun installing electric charging points at places and will be rolling this out further in the coming months and years. And while we appreciate that not everyone has access to electric vehicles, we will highlight how to minimise fossil fuel miles to our places, either by using public transport or car sharing schemes.

With regard to cost savings, it is correct to say that keeping Handbook information as concise as possible results in substantial savings in print, production and postage costs, as well as a reduced carbon footprint. This is an important part of our commitment to use resources and charitable funds responsibly.

Full travel details, including by cycle, on foot, by train and by bus, can be found in the ‘How to get here’ section of each National

Trust place’s webpage.

Details of buses, trains and cycle routes are also provided in a separate publication (free to members) called the Getting Here guide. This is available as a pdf from nationaltrust.org.uk/ gettinghere or by calling 0344 800 1895. Details of how to obtain this are on page 8 of the National Trust Handbook.

Sharon Pickford, Director of Support & Revenue, National Trust