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There are many youth hostels in England and Wales. This article is intended to list all youth hostels operated by the Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) (YHA), either presently or formerly, and also independent hostels. The list is split into sections: hostels currently operated by YHA, independent hostels, and others, where others ...
In 2014 a new youth hostel opened in Brighton. [32] In 2015 a new youth hostel opened in Cardiff, which quickly became the only hostel in the YHA network to be awarded 5 stars by Visit Wales/Visit England. In December 2015 YHA Cardiff Central won Best Accommodation at the 2015 British Youth Travel Awards.
Youth Employment Network (YEN) is a joint UN, World Bank and ILO initiative to address the global challenge of youth employment. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan committed to set up YEN as a personal initiative, he invited Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and James Wolfensohn, former President of the World Bank to join him in this new inter-agency ...
In 2003, the foundation donated $7.5M to the Saïd Business School at Oxford University to establish the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.The center studies and promotes socially purposed businesses and hosts a one-year MBA programme in social entrepreneurship. [22]
Youth hostels in England and Wales (22 P) Pages in category "Youth hostelling" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
From that trip, came the interest to found a youth hostelling movement in Britain. [5] During 1930 the Merseyside group of the newly formed Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) (YHA) looked for premises to use as hostels and in time for Christmas 1930 the group opened Britain's first youth hostel at Pennant Hall near Llanrwst in north ...
Youth Hostels Association may refer to: YHA Australia; Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) Scottish Youth Hostels Association; Youth Hostels Association of India; Youth Hostel Association of New Zealand; Hostelling International, an international federation of national youth hostel associations
A modern hostel (Rush Common House) was built in Abingdon. The houses were later sold (mainly to their occupants) in the 1980s and the hostels were demolished or adapted for other uses. The 'Prefab' estates lasted until the early 1990s when the residents were transferred to local authority housing.