Downpour! - The street game

Edit Skiddle 27 Oct 2016
YHA Manchester in Manchester. Saturday 29th October 2016. 11.00am til 4.00pm. Minimum Age. 14. Save the city from a devastating flood in this interactive street game. Event Info. Venue.  . Downpour! - The street game on Sat 29th October 2016 ... http.//sciencefestival.seetickets.com/event/downpour-/yha-manchester/1011275/ ... ....

YHA New Zealand welcomes the Lazy Shag to its network

Edit Scoop 26 Oct 2016
YHA Chief Executive, Marks Wells says, “It is fantastic to restore the YHA brand to Kaikoura after the decision to close our own hostel. We are delighted to welcome the Lazy Shag into our network and look forward to a long and mutually beneficial ... ....

14 baffling celebrity documentaries that we can't quite believe actually existed

Edit Digital Spy 25 Oct 2016
Remember when we all laughed at the very idea of Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank on I'm Alan Partridge? Yeah… it's starting to feel less and less ridiculous ... who the hell is actually tuning in for them? Some of them are a bit, well, niche ... 1. CHRIS TARRANT'S EXTREME RAILWAYS We honestly never knew that railways could be extreme ... 2 ... AND IT WORKED ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... Chris agreed to make Youth Hostelling as part of a campaign for YHA....

County council awards £500k grant to The Sill project (Northumberland County Council)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016
(Source. Northumberland County Council). 28 Sep 2016 Northumberland National Park Authority and YHA (England & Wales) are celebrating after being awarded a £500,000 grant from Northumberland County Council to support the delivery of The Sill. National Landscape Discovery Centre on Hadrian's Wall. The Sill project has been financed primarily through £7.8 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) ... (noodl. 35593505) ....

YHA Global Winners of Environmental Award

Edit Scoop 26 Sep 2016
New Zealand. YHA New Zealand is the global winner of the Green Accommodation Initiative for the WYSE Global Youth Travel Awards 2016. The awards celebrate outstanding performers within the international youth, student and educational travel industry and act as ... ....

Youth hostels head upmarket and into the cities

Edit The Guardian 24 Sep 2016
On Monday the YHA will submit plans for the biggest commercial venture in its history, investing £30m in a partnership with Westfield, the company that owns Britain’s largest shopping centre ... It will have 850 beds, nearly three times as many as any other YHA property ... “We’ve never been busier, never been healthier, on the back of our modernisation programme,” said YHA commercial director Joe Lynch....

Searching for WA’s heritage heroes (State Government of Western Australia)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Sep 2016
(Source. State Government of Western Australia). Nominations now open for the Western Australian Heritage Awards 2017. This is the 25th year of celebrating heritage success stories ... Metropolitan winners included Fremantle's National Hotel, the State Buildings and the Fremantle Prison YHA. The adaptation of the women's division of Fremantle Prison into a world-class hostel has attracted international and local visitors to Fremantle ... (noodl....

50 of the best UK cottages for Christmas and New Year

Edit The Guardian 17 Sep 2016
Sorry to mention it just as the long, hot summer draws to a close, but unless you hurry it will be too late to bag a festive cottage ... A recently renovated former farmhouse in Snowdonia, Rowen YHA’s bedrooms range from doubles and quads to six- or eight-bunk dorms ... • Sleeps 20, £405 a night (£20pp) over Christmas and New Year (minimum three nights over Christmas), 01629 592 700, exclusive-hire.yha.org.uk Pennine piste, Northumberland ... ....

Mel Morris Presents NCS Graduates With Certificates (Derby County Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Sep 2016
(Source. Derby County Ltd). It's been a fantastic summer for the NCS programme with 43 young people aged 15-17 graduating from the programme. All of their hard work culminated with a presentation on the pitch ahead of the game against Ipswich. The National Citizen Service (NCS) is a flagship policy at the heart of the Government's vision for building a big society ... • Skill development at the YHA National Forest ... Derby County Ltd ... (noodl....

Tour of Britain: How cycling is helping flood-hit Cumbria recover

Edit BBC News 04 Sep 2016
As Cumbria nears the end of its slow recovery from last winter's devastating floods, tourism bosses are looking at cycling as one way to attract visitors and show the county is "open for business". The BBC's Robert Greenall took a ride through the Lake District to see how its people and businesses have recovered ... For me this was personally very upsetting - I'd worked in the YHA [Youth Hostels Association] for 40 years. I thought ... ....

Cool place of the day: YHA Coniston Holly How, Cumbria

Edit The Independent 03 Sep 2016
Secondly, it’s ‘YHA Day’ on 3 September, which is a good time to celebrate the YHA (Youth Hostels Association) and its network of fabulous properties, of which this is definitely one ... Read more. Cool Place of the Day....

10 of the best back-to-nature stays in England

Edit The Guardian 30 Aug 2016
Jackson’s Cabin, East Sussex ... Twitter ... • Dorm beds from £15 a night, yha.org.uk Widewath Farm, Lake District ... Bell tents for two from £180 for two nights, pitchperfectcamping.co.uk Ravenstor YHA, Derbyshire ... A sweeping National Trust property built by a Victorian mill owner, this 70-bed mansion is now managed by the YHA, so anyone can try the country house experience ... • Dorm beds from £15 a night, private doubles from £39, yha.org.uk. ....
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