YHA Blog
Written by Hilary Gorbould- Marketing Assistant As March approaches, it marks the halfway point of my 12-month student placement with YHA as a Marketing Assistant. The past 6 months have flown by and I’ve already learnt so much about marketing, YHA and the 9-to-5...
On 22nd October, we invited 14 outdoor, lifestyle and travel bloggers to YHA Castleton Losehill Hall to promote YHA’s Supper Club. Supper Club is a communal two-course meal which encourages hostel guests to share their travelling experiences and meet fellow guests....
Winter nights in youth hostels have just got a bit brighter thanks to one member’s legacy to YHA. ‘Richard’s Bequest’, an annual fund gifted to us in 1962, has enabled us to furnish 46 youth hostels with five popular board games for use by guests in the communal...
YHA has welcomed proposals in the Landscapes Review for ‘a night in a national landscape for every child.’ James Blake, the Chief Executive here at YHA said: “I am delighted to see the proposals in this Review. It highlights the fact that we have lost sight of the...
An incredible new film with actress Caroline Quentin, star of TV and stage, features the voices of the visionaries of the environmental movement as they describe the early days of the National Parks in their own words. The six-minute film from Campaign for National...
Did you know that YHA is 90 next year? Time flies when you’re having fun. This December, we will be marking our 90th anniversary of the first local meeting to investigate the possibilities of a British Youth Hostels Association in Liverpool, 12th December 1929. It...
Why not take part in our winter volunteering opportunities this winter with YHA Working Holidays? Tis the season to be jolly, the most wonderful time of the year – and perhaps also an occasion to explore somewhere new. There’s...
We aim to provide around 80 work placements in partnership with MtW for young people who are not in education, employment or training over the next year. At YHA, our aim is to transform young lives through travel and adventure, and we're partnering with UK...
We've added to our accommodation provision in the North of England with the acquisition of two city-centre based youth hostels. We've acquired hostels in Newcastle and Liverpool city centres. The new hostels give us a much-needed presence in Newcastle and...
A call has gone out from legendary mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington CBE to help save a much-loved Welsh youth hostel… YHA Snowdon Bryn Gwynant. The future of YHA Snowdon Bryn Gwynant in Snowdonia National Park, is at risk unless a total of £2 million can be raised....
At YHA (England & Wales), we’re set to eradicate half a million single use plastic bottles from our 151-strong network of youth hostels next year thanks to support from Waitrose & Partners. We are honoured to have...
The result of a record £2.5million investment in Bath Youth Hostel has been unveiled by the Mayor of Bath, Councillor Patrick Anketell-Jones. In what has been the single biggest investment ever in a Youth Hostel in the South West by the leading youth charity YHA...
