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YHA (England and Wales)

YHA Annual Report 2023/24

YHA (England and Wales) is a charity providing youth hostel and outdoor education accommodation across England and Wales, with a mission to help young people of limited means access travel and outdoor experiences. The 2023/24 annual report's PDF was inaccessible to automated retrieval (blocked by bot detection), so this entry draws on organisational background and figures referenced in the charity's subsequent annual report rather than the source document's own detailed figures.

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Youth hostel and outdoor accommodation; school trips and group stays; outdoor education and adventure activities; access programmes for young people with challenging lives and under-served communities

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Over 200 youth hostels, bunkhouses and camping barns operated across England and Wales
Key Metric 2 Guest numbers exceeded 810,000 (based on the following year's report noting 2023/24 was a higher total)

Key Outcomes

  • Delivered its first year of a Recovery Plan (agreed May 2023) aimed at reaching break-even by 2026 following Covid-era and inflationary pressures

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