UK Hostel Gets Green Grant

Highest hostel's welcome gets warmer after green grant
http://www.grough.co.uk/magazine/2010/05/02/highest-hostels-welcome-gets-warmer-after-green-grant

Britain’s highest youth hostel will be able to give its visitors a warmer welcome after the installation of solar energy.

Natural fleece insulation will also be added at Skiddaw House which, along with the roof panels will mean heating bills at the remote building should be reduced.

...The hostel was originally built by the Earl of Egremont to accommodate his shooting parties. After Dalton’s retirement in 1969, the building slowly fell into disrepair but was taken under the Youth Hostel Association’s wing in the 1980s but by 2006 had again become derelict.

It subsequently reopened as an independent hostel under the control of the Skiddaw House Foundation.