{"id":43602,"date":"2025-07-29T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43602"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:46:59","slug":"bbc-national-trust-blames-tax-rises-as-it-cuts-550-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43602","title":{"rendered":"BBC: National Trust blames tax rises as it cuts 550 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NT-Green.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NT-Green-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41899\" style=\"width:130px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NT-Green-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NT-Green-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NT-Green-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NT-Green-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NT-Green-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NT-Green-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Trust has announced plans to cut 6% of its current workforce, about 550 jobs, partly blaming an inflated pay bill and tax rises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Trust has announced plans to cut 6% of its current workforce, about 550 jobs, partly blaming an inflated pay bill and tax rises\u2026 was under \u2018sustained cost pressures beyond our control\u2019\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Although demand and support for our work are growing with yearly increases in visitors and donations; increasing costs are outstripping this growth,\u2019 the charity said in a statement\u2026.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clym8029nnvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Trust has announced plans to cut 6% of its current workforce, about 550 jobs, partly blaming an inflated pay bill and tax rises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,17,18,72,30,23,29,90,31,22],"class_list":["post-43602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog","tag-building","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-economics","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-heritage","tag-jobs","tag-nature","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43603,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43602\/revisions\/43603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}