An intergenerational communiqué to the future
We are at a “tipping” point. In the face of runaway technological development, seismic shifts in world power, and especially climate change, what are our hopes and dreams for 2032?

Purchase an elegant numbered Message to the Future Card by credit card online now, and be a part of the National Trust’s historic Message to the Future project. Write your message to whoever you chose – a child, a grandchild, your older self, a sibling, or to a future generation.  And buy cards for your children so that they can also send a message. If you wish, add personal photographs.

   
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Numbers of cards strictly limited –
buy early to ensure your place in the Time Capsule

Your message, together with those of thousands of others, will be interred in the National Trust Time Capsule in 2007, and lie secreted in the grounds of the Trust Centre for a quarter of a century. The Capsule will be unearthed in 2032, after one, crucial make-or-break generation – the messages brought to light when today’s adults are seniors, and today’s children are adults, inheritors of the world shaped by us.

By participating, you also help the National Trust in its mission of conserving natural and cultural heritage for those who come after us. All monies raised will go to support the Trust’s work.

Take this once-only opportunity to be a part of a unique written and photographic record of living history. Will our heartfelt wishes for circa 2032 be realized? How will our hopes and aspirations be reflected in future reality? What will be our future? Only time will tell…

Please click here to learn more or to purchase your Message to the Future cards.

National Trust. The future keepers