[Diggers350] The National Trust are... {expletive deleted}
C COTTON
chriscotton13558 at btinternet.com
Sun Aug 14 16:41:26 BST 2022
Hi Folks, what a discusting way to tread someone, what he could do is
get rid of the trustees, or are they going to try and oust Robin and
then sell off the land/properties for them selves.
Why has it taken this long to find something wrong with the charity
rules, there is more to this than folk think. Robin should ask the
charity direct to see what the problem is, then the truth will come out.
Did you know that for every £1 some utilities put into investment, the
government adds 90p as well, then you read that directors and
shareholders award themselves millions of £s in shares and bonus, and ,
in the water companies millions of profits are going to oversees owners.
Keep paying your bills, mustnt upset the various owners
regards
Chris
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From: "Tony Gosling" <tony at cultureshop.org.uk>
To: "r.cooke33" <r.cooke33 at btinternet.com>; "C COTTON"
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Sent: Saturday, 13 Aug, 22 At 23:02
Subject: The National Trust are... {expletive deleted}
NT has become a tax exempt commercial business
Lawyers to defend each charitabe rule they break
More up your way (Cambridgeshire) is this
A man who WAS putting the NT to shame
Please feel free to share
Respected author and 'One Man And His Dog' BBC presenter Robin Page
has had his brilliant charity - now worth over £30 milion stolen from
him!
Several families donated their farms to his life long trust which has
now been wrested and he has been horribly harassed
Chancers
Lets do something
We're up for it
Best wishes TG
(article below)
https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/former-bbc-presenter-claims-dreadful-trustees-trying-sack-charity-founded/governance/article/1710438
<https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/former-bbc-presenter-claims-dreadful-trustees-trying-sack-charity-founded/governance/article/1710438>
Former BBC presenter claims 'dreadful' trustees are trying to sack him
from charity he founded 18 March 2021 by Stephen Delahunty
The Countryside Restoration Trust rejects Robin Page's claims
The founder of a countryside charity has claimed he is being ousted by
a group of what he called “dreadful” trustees in a bitter dispute over
the running of the charity.
Robin Page, founder of the Countryside Restoration Trust
<https://www.countrysiderestorationtrust.com/> and a former presenter
of BBC sheepdog trials programme One Man and His Dog, said on Twitter
that he was being “sacked” from the charity he established in 1993 with
one farm.
The charity, which has since grown to manage 18 properties around the
UK, denied this was the case.
It said Page's role as executive chair was being concluded on legal
advice, but he had been invited to continue as a trustee.
Page claimed he was being "bullied out" of the charity by a “group of
greedy elderly men” who wanted to take the charity away from its
members.
He said: “Can you believe it. After 27 years of giving most of my life
to the Countryside Restoration Trust – I am being sacked by the CRT in
April – a group of three or four dreadful trustees who have lost the
plot and have let their expanded egos take over.”
The charity rejected the claims.
Page said he had also removed the legacy in his will he was going to
leave the charity.
He alleged his dismissal letter came from vice-chair of the CRT,
Nicholas Watts.
But in a statement on the charity’s website, Watts said: “I’d like to
address the misunderstandings on social media about Robin Page’s
position at the charity.
“There’s no question of him being ‘sacked’ or there being a ‘trustees’
takeover’. His role as executive chair has been concluded, on legal
advice, to comply with Charity Commission rules and best practice
governance.
“He not only remains a trustee but has been offered an exciting new
role recognising his immense service to the charity and enabling him to
continue building our membership networks and portfolio of 18 properties
around the UK.
“We hope that this clarifies matters and emphatically puts the record
straight.”
In a separate statement, the CRT’s trustees said they planned to meet
Page today to discuss his future role, which they hoped “will be
conciliatory and collaborative in context”.
At 13:26 08/08/2022, r.cooke33 wrote:
Indeed Chris.
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Sent: Sunday, 7 Aug, 2022 At 20:02
Subject: Re: [Diggers350] The National Trust is trying to eliminate
livestock farming by pushing tenants out for 'pantheist' rewilding
projects
Hi , you have to wonder what makes the NT tick sometimes, during the
covid periods the NT lost , it is estimated , £240 million quid, and
other people have stopped donating to the NT because of the direction
they are going in, the obvious thing would for them to keep farmers of
any kind so as to get income, yet, they turf people off to rewild or
other sceme, and , have to pay someone to look after it all, where is
the sence or reason in that, must be an NT thing,when you concider that
employees and managers are classroom taught with computers, which means
that if its on computer it must be right, despite what all the old
farmer giles type people have been doing for 100s of years in looking
after the land and the wildlife. There is also the shooting estates left
to the Trust, but instead of having shoots with a game keeper , earing
thousands, who look after the wildlife, they ban all shooting, again
employ someone to alllegedly look the land, and end up with no small
birds or animals, as the predetors have taken over.
In the blogs below , the NT are turfing all sorts of folk off lands
for their own use/needs, yet they say they value their tenants, there
must be government type people in the NT, as they say one thing, do
something else, but mean something entirely different, and yet amongst
all this, the NT are spending £6 million on reroofing ,and other bits
at Oxborough Hall near Swaffham.
It make you wonder what the founders of the NT would be saying if
they could see and hear what is going on, i would think mini tremors
where they are buriedas they turn in their graves in disgust.
OOOhhh happy days
Regards
Chris
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Sent: Tuesday, 2 Aug, 22 At 01:50
Subject: [Diggers350] The National Trust is trying to eliminate
livestock farming by pushing tenants out for 'pantheist' rewilding
projects
The National Trust is trying to eliminate livestock farming by
pushing tenants out for 'pantheist' rewilding projects
https://tlio.org.uk/the-national-trust-is-trying-to-eliminate-livestock-farming-by-pushing-tenants-out-for-rewilding-projects/
<https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/tenancies-rents/national-trust-rewilding-projects-leaves-tenants-feel-pushed-out>
https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/tenancies-rents/national-trust-rewilding-projects-leaves-tenants-feel-pushed-out
<https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/tenancies-rents/national-trust-rewilding-projects-leaves-tenants-feel-pushed-out>
Several farming tenants and the Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) are
concerned by what they see as the over-zealous way in which the National
Trust is taking productive agricultural land back in-hand for rewilding.
Farmers Weekly talks to some tenants who have lost the land they have
farmed for years.
See also: Why farm tenants are criticising National Trust landlords
<https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/tenancies-rents/why-farm-tenants-are-criticising-national-trust-landlords>
Devon farmer leaves after 28 years
Patrick Greed, who farms on the Killerton Estate in Devon, feels he
has “betrayed agriculture� after accepting an incentive from the
National Trust to give up his Agricultural Holdings Act (AHA) tenancy
after 28 years.
As well as the main 160ha holding he farmed, he had another 60ha of
river meadow grazing on a Farm Business Tenancy (FBT).
“The National Trust kept renewing it every five or 10 years,
depending upon what environmental stewardship schemes we were in,� he
says.
“Most recently, we had been in Higher Level Stewardship and once
that ended, they decided to take it back for tree planting, scrapes and
rewilding.�
Loss of this land meant 61-year-old Mr Greed had to reduce his
Limousin suckler herd. “We had 550 head (cows and followers) before we
lost the river meadows. Now we have 340.�
Mr Greed’s pedigree limousin © Patrick Greed
With it becoming increasingly difficult to farm the land
productively, alongside TB risks and greater public use of the land, Mr
Greed accepted the incentive to quit and will leave the farm next year.
But he is uneasy about the direction the National Trust is taking.
“It is not reletting it as a farm. It plans to do a lot of tree
planting on the main holding. But just over 120ha of it is Grade 1 and 2
arable land.
“It [the National Trust] even wants to plant trees on some of the
permanent pasture. It is wrong. Farmers ought to be producing as much
food as possible from this land.�
Mr Greed is not alone. Land agent Kevin Bateman, director of Bateman
Hosegood, has come across numerous cases, particularly in the past two
years, where the National Trust has taken back tenanted land for
rewilding and tree planting.
“It feels like re-enactment of the Highland clearances – a land
grab,� he says.
Typically, tenants are finding that their FBTs, which have been
historically renewed, are being taken back in-hand, which is
significantly affecting the viability of some businesses.
“And some tenants with AHA tenancies are being offered cash
incentives to give them up too, says Mr Bateman.
“The policy feels like it is financially driven, with the trust
targeting big grants for landscape-scale nature recovery at the expense
of its tenanted farms.
It sees this as a way of creating significant income for itself.
However, it does not understand the implications for the farming
businesses and family homes that it is effectively destroying,� he
explains.
“The way it is doing this suggests that it has complete contempt
for the farmers who have farmed the land for generations.�
Cornwall farmer feels ‘destroyed’
When Tom Hasson, 42, and his partner Becki Prouse, 37, took on the
220ha mixed farm FBT in Stowe Barton, Cornwall seven years ago – having
farmed 60-80ha of it for 14 years – theyhey fully expected to continue.
Tom Hasson and family © Tom Hasson
“When we took it on, the National Trust said it wanted to let it to
a young farming family like us. In June last year, we went with a
proposal to renew our Mid-Tier stewardship and tenancy,� says Mr
Hasson.
“So it came as a bombshell when the trust said it had different
plans for the premises. It wanted to take all the land back and create a
nature reserve with agricultural production as a ‘by-product’ rather
than the main aim.�
At their last meeting, the National Trust suggested running 50 head
of cattle over 220ha on a year-to-year grazing licence.
“But there would be no security and how could we get an income when
they would be taking the payments? Our plans are up in the air,� says
Mr Hasson.
“It has totally destroyed us and upset the kids.� Ms Prouse
agrees: “There is no recognition of what we have done. I feel
empty.�
Devon farm goes to public access
Echoing this sentiment is Tim Jankins, who came out of his 180ha
mixed farm FBT on the South Devon Estate, near Plymouth, in November
last year.
Tim Jakins © Moostones
“We were there for 25 years. The National Trust approached us in
2018 when our tenancy was up for renewal and said we couldn’t renew it
on the previous terms,� he says.
“It wanted a large amount of public access, and to rewild some of
it.
“My gut reaction told me to get out. I’d put a lifetime’s
savings into it and I didn’t want to be there when it reverted back to
whatever it was supposed to be reverting back to.�
He has since heard that the farmhouse is empty and that there are
many weeds on the farm. “It is good, productive land,� he adds.
“We used to supply a good amount of beef and lamb, with grain going
to local feed mills. This now has to be brought in from further away,
which doesn’t help the carbon footprint.�
TFA: ‘Wrong-headed’ policy
Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) chief executive George Dunn says
that what is happening to some tenants is devastating.
“They have put their heart and soul into a place, hoping to get
some sort of tenancy renewal and are told this is not going to happen.
“People are bringing up families on these farms, they are involved
in local communities and go to local schools.�
While he is aware of conversations on other National Trust estates,
Mr Dunn says the situation is most potent in the South West,
particularly affecting coastal properties.
“The Trust is focusing attention on what it considers is needed for
biodiversity net gain and carbon reduction. It doesn’t see these farms
as particularly important from an agricultural perspective.�
The TFA thinks the policy is entirely wrong-headed. “It is a vanity
project driven by the current media frenzy around rewilding, which in
our view is not based on sound science,� says Mr Dunn.
The TFA is also challenging Defra over spending public money on such
projects.
“The government’s objective is to maintain the landlord/tenant
system in agriculture.
“If a landlord like the National Trust decides to bring someone’s
occupation of a farm to an end, it shouldn’t have access to public
funding for planting trees and rewilding,� Mr Dunn suggests.
He advises tenants who have been approached about giving up their
tenancy not to go quietly and to speak up for what they believe to be
right.
“Contact the TFA,� he adds. “We are building a database to help
lobby the National Trust on a joint basis – the more cases we have, the
better. �
National Trust insists it values its tenants
The National Trust says it wants to make its land “better for
nature�, to help tackle the nature and climate crisis.
“We want to create and restore 25,000ha for nature on our land by
2025 – work started in 2017. This means we may retain land in-hand,
often temporarily, to reset the management model,� says a spokesman.
Any payments made as incentives to surrender tenancies are from
National Trust funds, and each case is considered in its local context.
The trust denies taking land back so it can claim future Landscape
Recovery or other environmental grants.
“If we hold land in-hand, it is with a view to taking some time to
plan its future use and management,� the spokesman explains.
“When we decide to make changes to our land, we look at the
different options available to support any capital investments needed
and to secure appropriate long-term management.
“We anticipate future funding will come from a variety of sources
and that rental income will continue to be part of that mix.�
The National Trust says it is acutely aware of the impact on tenants
when tenancies are not renewed. “We work hard to support our tenants
with the challenges they face as a result of this,� it insists.
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