Tredegar House Visitor Attendance and The National Trust
Under the Freedom of Information Act, Newport Council has revealed attendance figures at Tredegar House for the past 7 years.
2013/14 57,280
2014/15 78,984
2015/16 90,285
2016/17 94,850
2017/18 88,309
2018/19 81,377
2019/20 89,234
The Trust began well but failed to pursue an agenda with successful attractions to secure increased public support. There is a repeated failure to capture increases to attendance in ANY of the last 3 years compared with the best year, 4 years ago.
The rot was there before the pandemic which saw the House close.
The Lease Agreement of the Council and Trust ( £10m payable between 2012 and 2062) provided for the sum of £150,000 per annum to be paid to the Trust as long as visitor numbers at Tredegar House fell below 120,000 per annum, to run to 2025.
Since it was unlikely the 120,000 visitor target would ever be reached the Council and Trust subsequently agreed a settlement of £750k, cashed by the Trust 9 April 2020, to end the Lease commitment.
A pay-out when Newport was locked down & facing life-death issues that continue. How does Newport benefit from this?
Freedom of Information REQ08381 REQ08448 REQ08496 refer.
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