{"id":46565,"date":"2026-05-01T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46565"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:00:16","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-charity-doorstep-huge-relief-as-national-trust-exempted-from-consumer-rights-rule-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46565","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (charity) doorstep\u2019: \u2018Huge relief\u2019 as National Trust exempted from consumer rights rule change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Trust is among the charities that have been exempted from a \u2018loophole\u2019 in new consumer rights legislation that could have caused it to lose out on funding, reports <em>Civil Society.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em><u>Civil Society<\/u><\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA) 2024 is intended to minimise \u2018subscription traps\u2019, where consumers are misled into signing up through a free trial or reduced-price offer\u2026 However, the National Trust and other charities warned last year\u2026 that the change would pose a threat to their business models\u2026 the government has confirmed\u2026 that membership schemes operated by charities like the National Trust will be exempt \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 Hilary McGrady, director-general of the National Trust, said that the decision \u2018comes as a huge relief\u2019,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilsociety.co.uk\/news\/national-trust-exempted-consumer-rights-rule-change.html\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Trust is among the charities that have been exempted from a \u2018loophole\u2019 in new consumer rights legislation that could have caused it to lose out on funding, reports Civil Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,29,437,814],"class_list":["post-46565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-charity","tag-heritage","tag-law","tag-national-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46565","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46566,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46565\/revisions\/46566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}