National Trust blacklists volunteer who pointed out spelling mistakes
2nd January 2026
The National Trust blacklisted a volunteer after he pointed out spelling mistakes on its website.
Andy Jones, 71, a volunteer at the trust for more than a decade, sent a dossier of thousands of misspellings and factual errors to the charity’s director-general in the hope that they would be corrected.
After sending a strongly worded complaint to his local branch, in which he criticised the trust’s director-general for not responding, he was told that his comments were “not in line with our organisational values” and was banned from volunteering at any of its sites.
No good deed goes unpunished.