It's fun to stay at the YHA: who gets to access the outdoors?

Reasons Revisited

Geoff Lloyd

Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We’re back! Over the summer the Youth Hostel Association announced it was selling off some of its properties in a bid to stay afloat. It seems like a cruel irony at a time when many of us had reconnected with nature over the lockdowns. The charity has long been committed to opening up the outdoors to more people, especially children and young people, says Sally Nutland. But is there a way to save the YHA hostels? We talk about what the loss of these hostels means with Talia Randall and Haroon Mota, and why it's so important that everyone can access nature in rural and urban Britain.

Plus: What made one listener throw up in their cornflakes??

Guests

Sally Nutland, Communications Manager, Youth Hostel Association (@YHAOfficial)

Haroon Mota, Founder Muslim Hikers and the Active Inclusion Network (@Haroon_Mota / @Muslim_Hikers)

Talia Randall, Writer, performer and podcaster (@TaliaRandall)

More information

Read more about the sale of the 20 YHA properties in this John Harris column (Guardian)

Support the YHA's No Child Left Behind Campaign for children who are unable to afford a school residential

Visit YHA Boggle Hole

Learn more about and support Muslim Hikers

Listen to Talia’s podcast 'Blossom Trees and Burnt Out Cars' on BBC Sounds

Learn more about the Right To Roam campaign and listen to our episode on it

Read more about the benefits of parks and green spaces and research by Natural England on engaging under-represented groups in nature

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0:44.5	We are reunited.
0:46.4	It's like when you go back to school after the summer holidays, isn't it?
0:50.0	And you sort of think, oh no, I've got that kid that I've been trying to avoid
0:54.0	well I'm glad to see that you haven't had a big growth spurt during the summer
0:58.9	that is true or a sort of bad haircut that's normally what you go back to school with is like a bad haircut. That's normally what I'd go back to school with, is like a bad haircut.
1:04.0	You weren't choosing to go back to go with a bad haircut so that you would be further ostracized by your peers.
1:09.6	I know, I think it was just a sort of bad haircut really. You look refresh, you look rejuvenated, you look ready for the
1:15.2	autumn. Ready for action. And what about you? Yeah, I've had a great summer actually.
1:19.6	I've been all over the place we were in Sweden for a while. went to Edinburgh I had a thing to do at the TV
1:25.2	festival we've been to Maclesfield we've been to Liverpool I think that's the classic summer
1:31.1	isn't it Sweden Edinburgh Liverpool mackles field yeah it is a not the classic tour and then in
1:37.6	Edinburgh I was there for the TV festival so alongside the fringe they have the
1:41.8	television industries annual conference and I
1:44.6	chaired a panel on reboots and do you want to know what's coming back?
1:49.0	Us. They're not strictly sure we ever went away.
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