The National Trust Centre at Observatory Hill and surrounds will be transformed for the first ever National Trust Day this coming Sunday 18 March. There will be activities, entertainment and refreshments for the whole family, running from 10am – 5pm.

The day will coincide with mass celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

If you have registered for the bridge walk, please join our festivities once you have finished your walk. All you have to do to get to the Trust Centre at Observatory Hill is ensure that you are on the right hand side of the bridge as you approach the end of the bridge and take the exit signposted to Darling Harbour. Even if you aren’t attending the bridge walk we would love to see you - come along by train and join in the fun!

Highlights of the day will include:

• Free entertainment all day with MC Channel 7’s Andrew O’Keefe and the NSW Police Band, the Yeehaa Boys, Hip Fidelity and The Culprits

• The Trust Café serving refreshments and Famous Noodle Market – 20 international food stalls.

• Visit from Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir, Patron of the National Trust, to launch Trust Day and the National Trust Time Capsule

• Launch of the National Trust’s Time Capsule & special offer - for this one day only you can buy a a numbered Message to the Future Card in person for $2 to put in the Capsule.  The Time Capsule, a quintessentially Australian Esky, will be buried for 25 years and opened when the Harbour Bridge turns 100! Track your message using your personalized tear off receipt. If you can’t make it to the Day, click here for more information and to buy cards online.

• Certify your historic crossing by buying an exclusive Bridgewalk Certificate, available at the Trust Centre for $5 based on the original certificate issued to those who crossed the bridge on its opening day in March 1932.

• National Trust Day merchandise – gumleaf badges, ribbons, T-shirts and other special memorabilia

• Four major exhibitions: stunning photographs of the Bridge by Robert Billington; Historic Trees, exquisite drawings by Mavis Turner; Salon des Refuses – the alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize selection; and our Hanging Around exhibition – a tribute to our beloved coathanger.

• Sydney Writers’ Festival stand promoting their exciting May 2007 program

• Display of NRMA historic rescue vehicles and information marquee
  

• Guessing competitions and raffles will be run with terrific prizes