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| Can you help Katy fill up a youth hostel on Sunday night? | Can you help Katy fill up a youth hostel on Sunday night? |
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| Just under a year ago the Guardian Northerner reported a piece of good news: that the Derwentwater youth hostel, which had been threatened with closure due to the Youth Hostel Association's shift in policy towards honeypots and cities, was to continue under new and different ownership. This followed an eloquent appeal from its former warden Harry Ellis which we ran in June last year. | Just under a year ago the Guardian Northerner reported a piece of good news: that the Derwentwater youth hostel, which had been threatened with closure due to the Youth Hostel Association's shift in policy towards honeypots and cities, was to continue under new and different ownership. This followed an eloquent appeal from its former warden Harry Ellis which we ran in June last year. |
| How have they done? Well, in fluttered this email this morning from a fell wanderer in Brighton, Katy Moore, and the news is good. Note too that her message includes an invitation which, time and commitments permitting, none could surely refuse. Let it come from Katy: | How have they done? Well, in fluttered this email this morning from a fell wanderer in Brighton, Katy Moore, and the news is good. Note too that her message includes an invitation which, time and commitments permitting, none could surely refuse. Let it come from Katy: |
| Dear Northerner, On 1st November 2011 you brought us this wonderful piece of good news. I was very happy to read it when planning my hostel-to-hostel walk across the Lake District. I had the pleasure of staying at the hostel this August and I am going to stay there again on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 October. The hostel is providing fantastic experiences for many school children, as well as families, interest groups, and a diverse assortment of other adventurous visitors - everyone shares a desire to explore and to support the good work of the dedicated hostel team. The hostel is not-for-profit and I am glad to say that it has not lost money in its first year of independent operation. However, it is not always full. At the moment there is only one other person staying in the hostel with me on Sunday night - can you help me to raise this number and get the last month of their first year off to a great start? | Dear Northerner, On 1st November 2011 you brought us this wonderful piece of good news. I was very happy to read it when planning my hostel-to-hostel walk across the Lake District. I had the pleasure of staying at the hostel this August and I am going to stay there again on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 October. The hostel is providing fantastic experiences for many school children, as well as families, interest groups, and a diverse assortment of other adventurous visitors - everyone shares a desire to explore and to support the good work of the dedicated hostel team. The hostel is not-for-profit and I am glad to say that it has not lost money in its first year of independent operation. However, it is not always full. At the moment there is only one other person staying in the hostel with me on Sunday night - can you help me to raise this number and get the last month of their first year off to a great start? |
| On Sunday 7 October there is a concert at the Theatre by the Lake in Keswick and it would be a perfect package for visitors to combine a stay in the youth hostel with a trip to the Theatre by the Lake. Can you promote this idea through an article on what to do this weekend in the Lake District? Or do you have other more suitable ideas? | On Sunday 7 October there is a concert at the Theatre by the Lake in Keswick and it would be a perfect package for visitors to combine a stay in the youth hostel with a trip to the Theatre by the Lake. Can you promote this idea through an article on what to do this weekend in the Lake District? Or do you have other more suitable ideas? |
No to the last, and yes to the first. The Northerner's Alan Sykes has also been an enthusiastic chronicler of the work of the Theatre by the Lake, whose historian and literary factotum is also a former colleague and occasional Northerner contributor, David Ward. | No to the last, and yes to the first. The Northerner's Alan Sykes has also been an enthusiastic chronicler of the work of the Theatre by the Lake, whose historian and literary factotum is also a former colleague and occasional Northerner contributor, David Ward. |
| Get booking! And don't forget to climb Catbells and salute Mrs Tiggy Winkle while you are there. | Get booking! And don't forget to climb Catbells and salute Mrs Tiggy Winkle while you are there. |
| In fact here is YouTube clip of Mrs TW to get you in the mood. | In fact here is YouTube clip of Mrs TW to get you in the mood. |
| Contact Derwentwater youth hostel here. | Contact Derwentwater youth hostel here. |
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