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SWINDON, England, October 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Octavia Hill, leading social reformer and co-founder of the National Trust, has been honoured at a service to dedicate a memorial to her at Westminster Abbey in London. One hundred years after Octavia Hill's death, a memorial stone, commissioned by the National Trust [http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk ] and designed and crafted by Rory Young, has been dedicated at the service that celebrates her remarkable life....

SWINDON, England, September 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Trust has revealed that parents need more support to make the outdoors a part of everyday family life to avoid rearing a generation completely cut off from the natural world. The Natural Childhood Inquiry - which sought submissions from experts and the public on the barriers and the solutions for children's connection with nature - found that children's love of nature is best started in the home....

SWINDON, England, September 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Trust has announced it is backing a Government Minister's call to save the great British pudding. After being appointed in a recent cabinet reshuffle, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson urged people to be patriotic with their puddings, choosing traditional British recipes over foreign imports. In an interview with Farmers Weekly, Paterson said: "There is a huge dessert deficit in this country. We have a...

SWINDON, England, August 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Trust has commissioned writer and philosopher Julian Baggini to spend a week at the White Cliffs of Dover, much of which is cared for by the Trust, exploring through verse what this much loved stretch of the Kent coast says about the UK. Based at the world famous and iconic South Foreland Lighthouse, he will be delving into why the White Cliffs have become so wrapped up with our national identity and the...

SWINDON, England, August 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Trust has announced it is recruiting a group of advisors made up entirely of children to provide advice on how to get more of the nation's kids outdoors. The idea follows the charity's recent Natural Childhood Report and 50 things to do before you're 11 3/4 campaign, and shows the Trust stepping up its game in encouraging children to explore the outdoors and get closer to nature. The National Trust is...

SWINDON, England, July 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Trust has launched a GBP1.2 million fundraising appeal in a bid to secure the long-term future of the world famous White Cliffs of Dover in Kent. The appeal is the charity's biggest ever coastal fundraiser and will help ensure that public access to the White Cliffs can be improved for future generations to enjoy. It will also mean that this much-loved stretch of Kent coastline can be cared for in a way...

SWINDON, England, July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rare plants from National Trust gardens across the country will be propagated at a new Plant Conservation Centre that will improve the way one of the most important plant collections in the UK is cared for. Opened by international plantsman Roy Lancaster, the new 2.5 acre facility at a secret East Devon location will bring together plant propagation facilities, plant collection management expertise and facilities for...

Training sessions for Team GB's swimmers have been getting a helping hand from a new system incorporating cutting-edge movement tracking and sensor technologies. From starting dives to tumble turns the state-of-the-art coaching aid is the first of its kind to be able to track movement wirelessly through water. The system has been developed at Loughborough University's Sports Technology Institute in conjunction with British Swimming, with funding from the Engineering and Physical...

SWINDON, England, May 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Trust has announced the six winners of the first ever Octavia Hill Awards at a special ceremony in London A prolific drystone waller, an intrepid volunteer youth worker and famous TV walker were among the green heroes celebrated by the National Trust [http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk ]. The awards are named after Trust founder and social reformer Octavia Hill who died in 1912. They are being run in...

SWINDON, England, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Trust has announced that one year on from the launch of its innovative and award-winning MyFarm project, the charity is dropping the GBP30 sign-up fee in a bid to widen its success and inspire even more people to engage with farming and food. The experiment - based at the Trust's 1,450 acre Wimpole Home Farm [http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wimpole-estate/things-to-see-and-do/page-3 ] in Cambridgeshire - was...