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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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About

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

Geography

International

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
Key Metric 2
140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
Key Metric 3
373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
Key Metric 2
45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
Key Metric 3
95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
Key Metric 2
Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
Key Metric 3
Education programmes engaged 63,000 young people (69% of the total), the largest share of delivery
In the UK, 71% of Employment and Enterprise completers achieved a positive outcome, including 39% into employment or self-employment
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
851 students supported through the In2STEM programme in 2024, from 2,036 applications
Key Metric 2
27,447 hours of in-person STEM placement experience provided to participants
Key Metric 3
94% of participants know what it means to work in STEM after the programme, up from 69% beforehand
97% of alumni who applied to university were successfully offered a place, based on UCAS data from 1,760 alumni