International National Trusts Organisation (INTO)

13/09/2026

From peat bogs and polders to citizen panels and children's nature programmes, a recent exchange between the National Trust and Natuurmonumenten offered valuable insights into landscape-scale conservation, advocacy and public engagement.

Discover the key lessons and why international learning matters for nature and heritage organisations.

Read more: https://www.into.org/what-we-learned-from-visiting-natuurmonumenten/

11/09/2026

New INTO member opportunity!

We're delighted to launch the inaugural Helen Hamlyn Award.

The award will provide £25,000 to an INTO member organisation in early 2027, to support an innovative project that breathes new life into a heritage space and creates lasting impact.

The opportunity builds on INTO's longstanding partnership with the Helen Hamlyn Trust and encourages projects inspired by learning and collaboration across the global INTO network.

Expressions of interest are open until 6 November 2026.

Find out more: https://www.into.org/helen-hamlyn-award/

04/09/2026

Five years after the 'Melting Snow and Rivers in Flood' project, Kyiriba Kyathumba hot springs in Uganda shows how heritage conservation can deliver lasting benefits for both people and places.

Delivered by CCFU NGO in partnership with INTO and supported by the Arts – British Council Cultural Protection Fund, the project helped transform a flood-damaged heritage site into a thriving community asset.

Today, the site welcomes 300 visitors a day (up from 20), supports 30 jobs and livelihoods, and has enabled a community association of 420 members to save 13 million Ugandan shillings towards future community development.

A powerful example of how empowering local people to care for their heritage can create economic opportunity, strengthen wellbeing and build resilience.

Read the article here: https://www.into.org/heritage-healing-community/
Watch the full film: https://youtu.be/NAz2ZGI-R6U?si=edxpwsiULFZdezlB

28/08/2026

What can happen when heritage organisations share their knowledge across borders?

For Grenada's threatened Drill Yard, advice, experience and solidarity from fellow INTO members, brought together through the INTO Secretariat, helped strengthen a local campaign by Grenada National Trust and buy crucial time for the site's future.

Read how the power of the INTO network made a difference: 🔗 https://www.into.org/how-global-solidarity-helped-buy-time-for-grenadas-drill-yard/

21/08/2026

Extreme weather is increasingly affecting the natural and cultural heritage sites in the care of INTO members worldwide.

That's why INTO is proud to host and share the National Trust climate change adaptation guidance, making practical tools and expertise available to heritage organisations across the international sector.

Guidance: https://www.into.org/new-national-trust-climate-change-adaptation-guidance/

We also stand in solidarity with colleagues at the National Trust as they highlight the growing threat of wildfires and other climate risks to the places in their care. We encourage our network to support their campaign calling for wildfire prevention and climate resilience to become a national priority in the UK: https://campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk/page/196457/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=Wildfire_Web

INTO members: tell us about climate and heritage campaigns in your country that could benefit from international solidarity and support.

20/08/2026

Brilliant opportunity for young people in the INTO network to take part in creative sessions for research into engagement in heritage practice and policy. 👇

📣 Young Voices for Heritage – Pathways to Action & Advocacy 📣

We invite people aged 18 to 30 who work or volunteer in heritage or environmental sector to take part in some online creative research workshops as part of the Historic England and National Trust ‘Youth Voices in Heritage’ project.

The research, with University of Derby, is exploring experiences, perspectives, and positive personal pathways of young people who are actively engaged with heritage practice and policy. Heritage and nature together form part of a wider conversation about environmental sustainability, so we also want to explore parallels between the perspectives of young leaders in nature and heritage, bringing representatives of the groups together to share learning and experiences and explore opportunities for greater collaboration.

The research will depend on quantitative and qualitative data collected in a survey (launched in June 2026), alongside rich discussions through online and in-person workshops, using creative approaches both to draw out deeper insights and to generate content which can be used to promote and amplify young people’s voices.

Through three online creative workshops, led by poet Cia Mangat and co-designed and co-facilitated by young persons from our steering group, we will explore the following themes:

1. Wednesday 26th August 6-8pm - Heritage in the Present: How do young people engaged in heritage or nature-led organisations define ‘heritage’? What aspects and functions of heritage do they prioritise and why?

2. Thursday 10th September 6-8pm - Pathways from the Past: What experiences, relationships, practices or ‘gateway moments’ across their life-course do young people identify as shaping their engagement with heritage advocacy and action?

3. Wednesday 16th September 6-8pm - Motivations for the Future: What outcomes and impacts do young people seek through heritage advocacy and action, and how do they articulate and frame their motivations and personal identity in relation to this work?

You can sign up for one or all three.

Following on from these we will be delivering an in-person session (date tbc) bringing together young voices from heritage and nature-led movements to explore the opportunities for collaboration – how do young people see the relationship between heritage-led, nature-led, and other forms of place-based action? What shared values, narratives, skills, or tensions emerge across movements for nature and heritage? Attendance at this event will be fully-funded.

To register for one or all of the workshops, please visit https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/pqhYQDXJzL

Any questions about the workshops or research, please contact Carly Butler [email protected] at the University of Derby.