How can I support

Help us do even more

Join us on our mission to reach more than one million young people every year.

Together we can transform young lives through travel, adventure and discovery by creating opportunities to explore, learn, share and grow. Because where you go changes who you become.

How you can help

Stay

Stay at one of our unique, charming and characterful youth hostels across England and Wales, discover our YHA Camping & Cabins sites or take the place for yourself on YHA Exclusive Hire.

Book now

Join

Join or gift membership to a loved one and enjoy a range of excellent benefits, including discounted stays, while knowing that your contribution will be help to improve the lives of young people.

Become a member

Give

Give a regular gift, sign up for a sponsored event, hold a fundraiser or remember us in your will. Donations big and small all make a major difference to the young lives we aim to improve.

Donate now

Volunteer

Help to improve your local hostel as part of a Supporter Group, go on a Working Holiday, become a YHA Summer Camps volunteer and provide vital help, or lend us time and expertise at National Office.

Lend a hand

No child left behind

The number of children experiencing poverty is rising. And with the squeeze on school budgets and household purses, more school residential trips are being cancelled. Whole classes miss out. Help us to send more children on an amazing adventure next year. And make sure no child is left behind.

Donate today

Other ways to support YHA

Recommend us

Recommend us

Tell a friend about YHA. The more people that know about us, the greater our reach and the more we can do to help.

Write a review

Hire meeting space

Hire meeting space

Hire a meeting room or even a whole hostel for a conference, team away day, celebration or wedding.

YHA Groups

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Take on a challenge

You could raise money for YHA through an activity you already love or a challenge you’ve always wanted to try.

Challenge events

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Give as you live

Sign up to 'give as you live' and you’ll be giving to YHA whenever you shop online with no extra charge to you.

Give as you live

Play YHA Lottery

Play YHA Lottery

Enter the weekly YHA Lottery draw for your chance to win big – all while supporting YHA’s work as a charity. £25,000! Imagine the possibilities.

YHA Lottery

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Buy YHA Raffle tickets

Play for big prizes in our charity draw. You could win a whopping £3,000 in our summer raffle. Plus, there are fantastic runner up prizes to be won.

YHA Raffle

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Fundraise for us

You could do something amazing by raising money from the things that you love to do. Our supporters bake cakes, hold coffee mornings, and jump out of planes, all to inspire others to give to YHA. 

Fundraise for us

Buy or sell through eBay

Buy or sell through eBay

Next time you sell on eBay, why not donate some of the proceeds to YHA? You can give between 10% and 100%.

You can also buy items in aid of YHA or make YHA your favourite charity for the option to donate each time you shop.

View the Good Guide (PDF)

Sponsor our places

Sponsor our places

Donate to the renovation of one of our historically significant and fascinating properties for future generations and leave a lasting legacy.

Donate to YHA

Partner with us

Partner with us

We build partnerships with suppliers and corporate partner that can add value, extend our reach and help us both achieve our shared aims.

Partnerships

 

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Leave a gift in memory

There are many ways to honour the memory of someone special so their story can continue through their legacy.

Donate in memory

Remember us

Remember us

Leave a gift in your will and continue to change young people’s lives for many years to come.

Gifts in wills