Enquiries about the register, the founding campaign, media and partnerships come to the Chair of the Australian Council of National Trusts.
Contact
Chair, National Trusts of Australia
EmailLachlan.Molesworth@nattrust.com.au
TelephoneThe National Trusts are active in every state and territory, managing more than 300 heritage places. For membership, donations, volunteering, properties and events, the National Trust website is the place to start.
The National Trusts acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands, waters and pathways described on this site, and pay respect to Elders past and present. Stories connected to Country will be told only with, and as guided by, their custodians.
Interviews, images and background on the register, the candidate trails and the founding campaign.
Media enquiry →Founding partnerships in national, geographic and sector categories, and founding trail partnerships.
Partnership enquiry →Proposing a trail for the register, or speaking with the project about a route through Country or community.
Trail enquiry →Project news
Governance and the curatorial committee are being established, with three pilot trails to launch across three states, carried by the existing National Trust web estate and South Australia’s heritage app.
The campaign seeks $900,000 over four years to develop, build and staff the register through establishment to self sufficiency, with an anchor commitment sought before matched public giving begins.
A national launch will symbolically connect the five candidate trails, bringing together representatives from each state, First Nations custodians, volunteers, historians, regional tourism bodies and founding donors.
The register opens at national scale with some 35 further trails, the full trail builder for every state Trust, member contributions under moderation, additional languages, and publication to Strava, Ride with GPS and Garmin communities.
The National Heritage Trails register will outlast every one of us who builds it. It asks for a founding generation. A government willing to recognise it, benefactors willing to seed it, and the National Trust movement, which has kept faith with Australia’s heritage for eighty years, to carry it.
