My wife and I renewed our joint senior membership on April 8 at £78 a year. We were appalled to read in your article that we have had an increase of 28% over the past five years, compared with only 19% for the joint adult rate (“Some senior cash cows may refuse to be milked”, last week). This is unacceptable. We had assumed that as over-65s we had an advantage by applying for senior membership, compared with those still generally employed and earning. I have now sent an email to National Trust cancelling my membership and asking it to return our £78 subscription for 2016-17.
MW, by email
I WAS not impressed by the National Trust’s argument that the senior discount represented lost income. Nonsense!