National Trust Staffordshire Centre
Who Are We?
We are a group of National Trust supporters who provide a range of activities to enable our members to meet socially, make new friends and get more out of supporting the National Trust.
Funds raised are used to support our local properties. To find out more visit our About Us page
What Do We Do?
We have regular meetings throughout the year, where we enjoy talks on a wide range of topics.
We organise a walk in most months of the year. In the summer we organise interesting coach and car visits, where you can enjoy the company of friendly people with similar interests.
Who Do We Support?
In our first fifty years we raised over £100,000 for local National Trust properties. Recently our efforts have been concentrated on the Shugborough Estate, where we have committed to be the sole sponsor of the second hand bookshop. Find out more
What's Coming Up?
Our next walk – Downs Bank & Meaford – 18th September with lunch at the Upper House.
Diary dates:-
Wednesday 22nd October– Weston to Salt and Gayton Brook, lunch at the Woolpack Inn, Weston.
Click on the logo to go to the Walks page
Next talk -9th September – Every Night Something Awful – by Dean Nixon
Diary dates:-
14th October – Life Aboard The Jam Butty by Wild Life Preserves
11th November – Famous Folk of Staffordshire by Kath Reynolds
9th December – Idioms And Expressions by Steve Williams
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Our next visit – Friday 12th September A coach visit to Coughton Court. This visit is definitely going ahead
Diary dates:
Watch this space for future visits
Click on the logo to go to the Visits page.
Our 2026 Holiday is in Scarborough – 5 days and 4 nights, based at the Esplanade Hotel in Scarborough, fromWednesday May 6th to Sunday May 10th. It is now open for booking! Prices from £495 pp, taking in Castle Howard, Sewerby Hall & Gardens, Nunnington Hall and Eden Camp.
Click on the bus to see everything you need to know about the hotel, the venues and the video! Book your holiday for 2026.
This year we are donating £6,000 to Shugborough to fund the conservation of part of the Shugborough art collection. These are 21 really important watercolour paintings. Mostly by Nicholas Thomas Dall and Moses Griffiths, with one by Edward Jones, they are a really significant part of the Shugborough collection. They depict the mansion, the landscape and the monuments, adding greatly to our knowledge of how Shugborough was originally designed.
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Join In
Why not join us for a walk or come along to one of our talks.
Talks are held in Walton Village Hall, Milford ST17 0LD at 2.30pm – usually on the second Tuesday in the month, and are followed by tea, coffee and biscuits.
Check out our Events page to see our current programme and details of how to join in on our walks, talks and visits.
Join Up
Membership only costs £8 a year. For this you get access to a full programme of events and a Newsletter that we publish twice a year.
To see how to join, go to our Join Us page and complete the application form.
Membership is open to all supporters of the National Trust from Stafford and the surrounding villages.
Help Preserve Our Special Places - Forever
If you want to get more out of the National Trust, make new friends and help support the historic places and countryside that we all care about, check out our Events page, give us a try and join us.
