Every trail publishes curriculum aligned resources, so a regional school can teach from the nation’s best heritage scholarship, free, forever. The platform serves schools and researchers as much as travellers.
For schools
Each registered trail carries a teaching set built to the same national standard as the trail itself, ready to use in the classroom or on the ground.
Teaching resources for every trail, mapped to the classroom and free to use, covering the histories the route passes through.
Published with each trailThe full route, places and stories in a printable guide, so a class can walk a section without a device in hand.
One per registered trailAudio at every place along the way, with QR coded signage connecting the physical trail to the living register.
On the trail, in the appItineraries at every activity level, public transport connections and all access routes, so an excursion plans as easily as a commute.
From each trail pageLetters, photographs, paintings and objects held in National Trust collections, alongside the histories published with each trail.
National Trust collectionsSchool programs and excursions run by the Trusts at heritage places across every state and territory.
National Trust educationTrails carry stories buildings cannot. Songlines and trade routes, convict roads, goldfields tracks and migration journeys. Registration protects them, and interpretation, guided by First Nations custodians, brings them to life. Stories connected to Country are told only with, and as guided by, their custodians, under the protocols at the centre of the register’s governance.
Free, forever
The register is built so that a school in a regional town has the same access as a school in a capital city. Resources publish with each trail, at no cost, and stay current as the register is maintained and reviewed.
Researchers use the same platform, with routes, places, histories and collections gathered in one national home rather than scattered across states, councils and communities.
The custodial workforce
The Trust’s 7,000 volunteers, local historical societies, friends groups and men’s sheds become the custodial workforce of the register, giving communities ownership of the trails that run through their towns.
7,000 volunteers nationwide, alongside 350 staff, caring for the places and the routes between them.
Local societies contribute the research and the memory that give each place along the way its story.
Friends groups maintain and watch over the trails and the heritage places they connect.
Practical support for signage, access works and the small repairs that keep a trail walkable.
Member contributions open in phase two, under moderation, so that communities can add to the register while national standards and First Nations protocols stay at the centre.
