YHA Blog
Here at YHA, we have shared our apprenticeship funding pot to save an apprenticeship opportunity in another organisation. We have generously transferred £15,000 from our Apprenticeship Levy fund to enable a Coventry tech company to keep a Level 4 Data...
Here at YHA, we have pledged to our members that we will come back stronger through the pandemic. The pledge was made at our virtual AGM on 7th November. At the AGM, we announced that we have launched a public survey with the aim of involving society in the future...
In support of the Save Outdoor Education movement, the Access Unlimited coalition is offering practical support, research and evidence to government as it develops the roadmap for safely re-opening the sector. The coalition of not-for-profit school residential and...
The future of youth hostelling lies in the hands of local MPs. We have joined voices with the colleagues from across independent hostels to lead the plea for MPs to add our signature to a tabled motion in Parliament. The motion asks the government for help to...
We are delighted to announce that we have secured a significant grant from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage. This vital funding is from the Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage and the Heritage Stimulus Fund - funded by Government and administered...
The restorative benefits of the outdoors and nature and the important role they must play the nation’s post COVID-19 recovery, will be captured in a new research project at YHA. We have received £40,000 in funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to enable...
We caught up with two hostel managers in very different locations to find out what life has been like since our hostels closed as a consequence of coronavirus. Sean, hostel manager at YHA Liverpool Central My name’s Sean, I...
As a society, we owe so much to the carers and key workers who have kept us going through this awful time. With our 90th anniversary appeal, we’re fundraising to provide free rest and recuperation breaks for NHS staff and...
London’s NHS and frontline workers are being offered free overnight accommodation by YHA (England & Wales). We have been awarded £45,000 of funding from London Community Response. The grant has enabled us to provide free...
#blacklivesmatter - staff and members of YHA are proud to connect to a charity which has been clear about the need for equality since its founding 90 years ago, our charitable objects start with “YHA is for all” and this sign...
In December last year YHA, The Outward Bound Trust, Scouts, Girlguiding, Field Studies Council and the National Parks came together as a coalition of non-for-profit school residential and educational providers. Our aim is...
Access to the outdoors and spending time together in it, is more important than ever for families, a national *survey by the 90-year-old youth charity YHA (England & Wales) has found. The survey results, which were...
