How observant are you? Did you notice that our header and web address have changed?
This change reflects the recent decision of the group to choose a new identity which better reflects the geographic areas in which we work and the areas from which our membership is drawn.
The former group name ‘Wolverhampton National Trust Conservation Volunteers’ (WNTCV) served us well but it was felt that it wasn’t really representative of the group as we increase the number of NT properties at which we work. So, the WNTCV name has been retired with full honours and we have an all new identity in ‘Shropshire and Staffordshire National Trust Volunteers’ which we will abbreviate to SSNTV.
Of course, no name is perfect as some of our worksites are outside this area….and some of our members live outside the region! In reality our name could have become a bit cumbersome if it included our work site in Hereford and working holidays in Northumberland and our members who live in Manchester and Scotland! However, the core of our work and membership is centred around Shropshire and Staffordshire and so the new name was born.
It will take some time to update all of our publicity material and sources. In the meantime, the main thing to remember is that we are still the same friendly, hard working group of people….and that we still like to reward ourselves with cake at the end of a workday!
If you want to follow our website updates, why not add our new web address to your ‘bookmarks’? You can contact us via the email address on the contact page. We can also be found on facebook.
What do you think of the name change? You can leave comments using the ‘leave a comment’ link.
I prefer the old name!