YHA Blog
YHA has warmly welcomed the Government’s announcement that young people will be a cornerstone of their pledge to improve access to nature ahead of COP28. The new package of measures announced by the Government on Wednesday 29th November, include more funding to...
Eastenders and Gavin & Stacey star Larry Lamb has given his support to a fundraising appeal by YHA. Our YHA No Child Left Behind appeal aims to raise £1million to enable pupils from low-income families to go on school residential trips to our hostels in England...
Since 1931, YHA’s network has included hostels run by private owners. Today, franchises are an important part of our network make up, as they are in the international hostelling movement. For many years, YHA has achieved growth in income and impact through a mix of...
Get walking! To encourage more people to discover health and wellbeing benefits of walking, we have partnered with Ordnance Survey, The Ramblers, The BMC and Cotswold Outdoor to, once again, run our popular six-week Festival of Walking. The 2023 YHA Festival of...
We are amongst some of the UK’s best known charities taking part in The Big Help Out – one of the centrepieces of the celebrations planned for the Coronation of His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen Consort. YHA is hosting a number of self-led and...
We have increased our accommodation offering across our network to meet demand for the forthcoming spring/summer season. The accommodation restructure has been launched during English Tourism Week (17th – 23th March) and will enable more people to access affordable...
We are launching our 2023 Festival of Walking at The National Outdoor Expo (18 – 19 March) at the Birmingham NEC and we are inviting people to ‘save the date’. The YHA Festival of Walking is taking place across England and Wales from 3rd September – 19th October...
Members of the Access Unlimited coalition have welcomed the recent government announcement that young people learning in the outdoors will be one of key causes to benefit from £892 million of dormant assets funding in England. The government announced on 7th March...
As part of National Apprenticeship Week, I wanted to reflect on my time as an apprentice at YHA. I started my Operations Management Apprenticeship Level 5 in October 2021, due to complete this September. I decided on an apprenticeship as I knew how important they...
NCS Trust will shortly be entering into a contract to commission a consortium of Ingeus and YHA to deliver a new residential experience for young people. Ingeus and YHA will deliver a new one week residential experience which utilises project based learning centred...
Members of the Welsh Senedd have pledged their support for YHA’s new strategy for Wales. Launched on 29 November 2022 at the Senedd in Cardiff, the new strategy represents a renewed and re-prioritised focus on Wales for YHA. The new strategy will position us as a...
My YHA volunteering journey started a while back, when I had been a volunteer manager at a smaller, more remote YHA hostel. During my time, I welcomed many Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) groups to the hostel at the end of their multi-day expedition. I was struck by the...
