And the ‘people’ needs:

• 6590 additional crafts people are needed to solve the current skills shortage

• Only 5% of workers in historic and botanic gardens are under 25

• Less than 40,000 people in the UK are skilled in traditional crafts, but within 10-15 the contribution of crafts to the rural economy could exceed farming

• 52% NT volunteers are over 65 and 4% under 35

• Half of the 400 sites surveyed by the Attingham Trust spent less than £1000 pa on education and only 13% have purpose buit spaces

• 38% people think they have no influence over issues affecting their local area

• There is no new funding at all to meet PSA 3