Hello GEMmers –

 

We are a free entry venue with a desk staffed by volunteers. Lately we are finding that we are having more and more groups coming to the centre on self-guided visits (normally ESOL students). Although it is nice to have them, they are using our facilities, treading in mud and discouraging other visitors from entering – but usually without buying anything in our shop; so we are nice and busy but getting no monetary return.

 

Do any other free entry venues make a nominal fee or ask for a recommended donation for these sorts of self-guided groups? How do you manage that? (We do ask that groups book ahead, but it seems to be about 50/50 on that happening.)

 

Yours scroogily,

 

Laura Hilton

Visitor Services Manager

Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust

 

Bridge Road, Leigh Woods, Bristol BS8 3PA

0117 974 4664

www.cliftonbridge.org.uk

 

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