The YHA was awarded a 11.5m lottery-funded two-year contract by the Government to run the Do it 4 Real summer camps in January 2005. The funding enabled the YHA to charge young people 25 to 100 to attend the camps, depending on their family circumstances.
But the YHA, which has made a commitment to continue running the camps because of their success, said it would have to charge a "commercial rate" for Do it 4 Real programmes if it failed to secure further funding.
Though only a third of last year's 9,000 attendees were from disadvantaged backgrounds, YHA estimates that just over half (52 per cent) of the expected 14,000 young people visiting this year's camps enter this category. There will be 33 camps in 2006, compared with 22 last summer.
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