Spring 2026 audio edition highlights

 

We hope the spring issue of National Trust Magazine will inspire you to experience all the season has to offer.

  



In this issue, find out how taking the time to stand and stare can help your wellbeing in our cover feature, ‘Slowly does it’. Join interior design expert Michelle Ogundehin and National Trust Curator Lucy Porten at Sissinghurst in Kent as they explore some of the remarkable rooms in our care and what they say about a time, a person and a society. And meet Trust staff member Nathan Gornall, who’s going the extra mile to raise vital funds for conservation.





And, as always, you can discover events and activities to help you make the most of your membership this season, along with news stories to keep you up to date with all the work you’re supporting.

 

You can listen to individual articles at these timecodes:

 

00:00:00 Introduction and Editor’s letter

 00:01:30 News from around the Trust

 00:05:51 AGM Report

 00:11:54 Slowly does it

 00:23:25 Mission: green

 00:37:00 Rooms for thought

 00:47:29 Run, Nathan, run!

 00:55:35 Flipping delicious

 00:59:42 Out and about

 01:08:30 Credits

 

 To listen to more podcasts from the National Trust, go to:

 https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/podcasts



Members of the Trust receive a print or digitial issue of the magazine free of charge. Full of behind-the-scenes stories and beautiful photography, we hope it will inspire you with all there is to discover and be part of with the National Trust. To find out more about membership go to: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/join-us