We arrange a programme of events throughout the year:-

Summer walks – often to NT sites and led by a NT Ranger

Summer visits – day trips and local visits

Winter talks – held on the first Thursday of the month, 2:30pm at Crundale Community Hall, SA62 4DF from October until April. Entry fee members £2. non members £3

National Trust Events 2025 Scroll down for more information

Please contact Chairman Jane Mason for further information jmason@fastmail.com

To receive a monthly digital bulletin detailing events and two annual newsletters make sure you join our local National Trust Association only £8 per couple or £5 for an individual – see our membership page for a form.

PNTA SUMMER EVENTS 2026

All Pembrokeshire National Trust Association events are organised by our hard working PNTA committee.

You will need to be a Member of the National Trust or the Association ( £5 for one £8 per household) to attend for insurance purposes.

You do not have to be a member of the NT to join the Association . See this website link for the membership form. https://pembsnta.org.uk/how-to-join/

The PNTA Spring Newsletter has more details of all the events.

WINTER TALKS 2025

Winter talks – held on the first Thursday of the month, 2:30pm at Crundale Community Hall, SA62 4DF from October until April. Entry fee members £2. non members £3

January 8th, 2026. Angela Jones. Gumfreston Church

“With a long career in education behind me, I have always maintained a deep interest in history, literature, and heritage. My enthusiasm for exploring ‘old and interesting’ places has been a lifelong passion—perhaps, as my late husband often joked, because I failed my ‘O’ Level history!

After retiring from teaching abroad in 2010, we returned to Pembrokeshire, and I was delighted to join the team at the Tudor Merchant’s House in Tenby. It has been a privilege to contribute to a site that brings the past so vividly to life.

Working in a historical setting has allowed me to combine my love of storytelling, learning, and community engagement. They say if you love what you do, you never work a day in your life—and I feel that every day in this role.”

Synopsis of talk

“Gumfreston two miles from Tenby is a quiet parish on the road to Pembroke Dock – usually passed by without thought.

However, on research it has many facets that make it ‘interesting,’ and this talk aims to highlight some of them. Links with Darwin, a clerical apiarist and a suspected witch all add to the history of Gumfreston to bring it alive.” 

February 5th, 2026. Melanie Knapp & Mair Coombes Davies. Tudor Merchants House and Garden’

Melanie Knapp and Mair Coombes Davies will provide a joint presentation. The talk is made up of two 20-minute presentations on the ‘Tudor Merchants House and Garden’. 

March 5th, 2026. Lisa Morgan. Ramsey and Skomer Islands: History, Wildlife and what lies ahead.

Starting out as a summer volunteer on Skomer and Skokholm Islands, Lisa soon moved into seasonal jobs as Assistant warden on Skokholm, moving to Skomer Island in 2004 as the seabird field assistant, seal fieldworker and interim Assistant warden. In spring 2006 she moved north to Ramsey, where I was the RSPB warden for RSB Cymru for 14 years, a role which also included seabird monitoring on Grassholm and Orkney. In 2020, Lisa moved back to the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales as Head of islands and Marine Conservation, looking after islands including Skomer and Skokholm and the marine research team based in New Quay, Ceredigion.

Ramsey and Skomer Islands: History, Wildlife and what lies ahead – this talk looks at the similarities and surprising differences between RSPB Ramsey Island and WTSWW’s Skomer Island. Just 6 miles apart across St Brides Bay we’ll explore the natural history and human influences on the two islands and the challenges they face in a rapidly changing Celtic Sea.

April 2nd, 2026.   Howard Rudge. The ‘Wogan Cavern’ (Pembroke Castle).

Howard is a Guide at Pembroke Castle. He also gives talks on the results of the archaeology being conducted in the Wogan Cavern. The results so far are both exciting and of national importance. Howard is an experienced public speaker and talks in verbal pictures. 

Howards talk covers the background to the digs from the first visit by Archaeologists in 2014 to the results of the most recent developments. He tells about, the anticipated future digs and what we hope to find. The story begins, just under one million years ago. It reveals links to the visits of Neandertals, Homo Sapiens and the wide range of animals discovered to have lived in Pembrokeshire through millennia.