National Trust says more staff diversity a priority

The National Trust has "much more" to do in order to ensure it has a diverse workforce, according to the organisation’s annual report.

The report states that the trust's ambition “is for a broader diversity of people to be represented in the demographics of our staff and volunteers as well as our visitors". 

As part of its Everyone Welcome initiative, last year the trust published The Everyone Welcome Inclusion and Diversity Progress Report.

This showed that 3.8% of staff were disabled people, 3% were people of colour and 6.9% identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and other minority sexual orientations.

Staff numbers in all these categories were increasing.

The annual report said that although the Inclusion and Diversity Report showed that workforce diversity is gradually increasing each year, "we have much more to do, especially when it comes to recruiting people of colour and disabled people”.

The Everyone Welcome programme is also focusing on broadening the range of people who visit trust venues. 

According to its annual report, in 2023/24 the trust spent £5.5m on improving physical access for disabled people.