The National Trust’s achievement in raising £24m in eight weeks to save the Victorian country estate of Tyntesfield, has been recognised with the organisation winning the Fundraising Campaign of the Year Award 2003 at the UK Charity awards.

The NT gained support from the public, the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund to raise the money, its campaign beating others from charities including Amnesty International and Marie Curie Cancer Care.

The Tyntesfield campaign was announced in April 2002 to prevent the estate, near Bristol, from being sold and broken up.