Youth Centre Syöte

Syöte Youth Centre is located in Finnish Lapland at the southernmost fell area of Finland. Distance from the nearest airports: Oulu 145km, Kuusamo 100 km and Rovaniemi 174 km.
The distinctive natural setting of the Syöte Youth Centre offers countless outdoor opportunities throughout the year.



Our facilities

 

• 5 meeting rooms, the largest meeting room; Syötesali; 250 seats. 

Wall climbing

• 4 restaurants, Deli & Buffee, Ala Carte, Bar, Cafe 

• Ski resort, 9 slopes, 5 lifts, 2 x street, half pipe 

• Observatory 

Observatory

• Wellness Center - SyöteSirius 

• Free Gym for hotel guests 

• Large selection of activities - all the Lappish Activities are available 

Accommodation

• The hotel was built in 1994, extensions and renovations in years 1999, 2008, restaurants and the the public areas renovation 2012. 

The hotel

• 82 rooms, economy, standard and superior room types, the accommodation capacity of 250 persons.

We also have four data projectors in our class or meeting room, a PA system in the main hall, a playstation and the games.

The island of Hailuoto

We operate a secondary location on Hailuoto, an island off the City of Oulu. The Centre is located on a ridge of the island that allows visitors to admire the sparkling sea and the wind-shaped sand dunes of the encircling Bothnian Bay. 

Island of Hailuoto

Our activities

Our target group are young people up to 29 years old. We work with many kind of groups. We have about 6000-7000 young visitors ( young people under 29 years old) in our programs every year.

* Group problem-solving tasks

* Indoor and outdoor climbing 

* Fishing and ice-fishing, making snow sculptures

* Hiking, snowshoe walks, skiing 

* Wilderness skills 

* Frisbee golf 

Snowboard on the slopes

* Archery 

* Mountain bike trips 

* Observing the night sky from our own observatory

* Art workshops (t-shirt printing, ceramics, wool-work)
* Trips to the National Park visitor centre, local reindeer farm, Ranua Zoo, Puikkari swimming hall in Pudasjärvi, husky safari

We also organize:

* recreational activities, accomodation, catering services and programme packages 

* Youth activities: camp schools, camps, social youth work and Nuotta coaching, adventure programs 

*Child activities: parent-child camps, adventure days for day care groups 

* international camps and groups 

* Meetings, training, different events, seminars

Mountain biking

Our regular staff is 20 people 

and 6 people are our pedagogical staff

Nearest airport: Oulu (52km) 

Nearest railwaystation: Oulu (62km) 

Ferry: Oulunsalo-Hailuoto (free of charge, 25 min.)



We are  also partners of Ministry of education, schools,  youth work municipalities, regional youth work and social work.

For more information please visit our website here!

Youth Centre Marttinen

Billiard

Youth Centre Marttinen is an international course, camp and tourist centre that is specialised in youth work. Marttinen Youth Centre is one of ten Finnish course and camp centres for children and young people that are funded and supported by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.

Youth hotels

Our facilities

• Restaurant 

• Coffee shop

Meeting room

• Sports hall with climbing wall and meeting room.  

• 10 meeting rooms sizes from 12 to 200 people in the Marttinens area. 

• Sauna . It is also possible to relax at sauna, there are several different saunas at Marttinen.

Old Vicarage of Marttinen

• Beautiful Old Vicarage of Marttinen for meetings, seminars and family parties like weddings.

We also have computers in every meeting room with video shooter

Sauna

Accommodation

• Youth Hotel with three separate buildings with 25 rooms and a total of 112 beds. All the rooms have a private shower + toilet and 2-6 beds.

  

  Room from youth hotel

  
  -All hotel buildings have a lounge where you can make yourself a cup of tea, watch some TV and spend time with your friends. A cabinet drier for wet clothes is in common use. There is a view to the lake from the porch.

• 11 cabins with 85 beds with 3-4 bedrooms, living room with tv and DVD-player, kitchen, 2 toilets and a sauna. All the cabins have a view to a lake.

• We have 200 bed place in 2-4 persons rooms. Accommodation is in cottages and wooden houses.

Cabins

We also have play grounds for children. Great hiking routes in forests for hiking. We have a lot of opportunities for climbing: ice climbing, climb on the rocks, high rope way, indoor climbing, bouldering wall. It is even possible to get down from the old railway bridge with ropes.



 
 Traditional Village of Virrat

We organize guided museum tours and “time travels” in and around the traditional village for visitors of any ages.

Old vicarage of Marttinen

• Time travels into the Finnish history 

• War museum 

• Rajalahti - old farm house building

• Museum of the old forest workers 

• Exhibitions during the summer 

• Performances and events about traditional work during the summer

• Guided tours in English and Finnish 

• Horses all round year 

• Other animals during the summer 

Marttinen and traditional village of Virrat

Activities

we have about 20 000 young visitors( young people under 29 years old) in our programs every year

-We organize: International programs, camps, youth exchange programs, training, Voluntary service programs, nature school programs; environmental education programs and activities for school classes and youth groups, Adventure programs, recreation days, Social youth work, Seminars, family parties and holidays 

-We also participate in international activities with trainings, seminars, Youth excahnges, camps and EVS programs

-Winter time you can ski, do a trip with kick sledges, play marling, go to snow walk trip, experience ice climbing or do winter fishing. 

-Marttinen is surrounded by lakes. It is possible to swim in the lake or go ice swimming in the winter. 

-It is also possible to do archery, art works, go fishing, do trips to national parks etc. We have a special interest for learning through adventures.

-There is a good possibility for canoeing as well as rowing a boat. At Marttinen you and your group can do a trip with pump cars at a museum railway!

Our regular staff is 26 people. 
We are also partners of: Ministry of education, municipalities youth work, regional youth work and Social work. 

 

For more information, visit our website here!

Download our brochure here!

Youth and Wilderness Centre Metsäkartano

Metsäkartano and surroundings

Metsäkartano is part of a national network of 10 youth centres specialized in youth work. Their function is to develop the methods used in the field of youth work, to act as centres for furthering the skills of the youth, and enable young people’s travelling domestically and abroad. The Youth Centre work together in the developing of programs and methods used in youth work, also they are cooperating in different kind of common projects. Moreover the Youth Centres serve as regional development centres for youth work and they are part of a comprehensive network of local education and serving children and youth. 

Facilities

Activity building Savotta

• Comfortable meeting rooms (10–250 people) with good acoustics and functional arrangements, and plenty of team work rooms

• A fully licensed atmospheric restaurant seating 200 and a summer terrace for 50 people with authentic Finnish food

• A peat cabin for social evenings

• Blacksmiths workshop and many outdoor activity locations

Wall climbing

• Savotta the activity building with gym, climbing wall, fitness gym, craft workshops, disco place, darkroom

• Lake with beach, two lakeside saunas and two fireplaces

• Forest with hiking and skiing routes

We also have

• Media equipment as laptops, projector, sound system, karaoke machine, cd-player

• Equipment rental service (skis, sleights, bikes and much more)

Peat cabin

Accommodation

-2 Wildernesshotels situated in log buildings Justeeri and Sirnikka: hotel standard rooms with ensuite bathrooms (87 beds, 29 rooms)

-6 Holiday Apartments (from 4 to 11 people) all are equipped with a stove, microwave, coffeemaker, dishwasher, fridge, washing machine, fireplace, tv and sauna

-Forest Lodge Metsäpirti offers 22 beds in 6 rooms and an attractive main room with log fire, sauna and well equipped kitchen

-Lumberjack Cottage Metsäkämppä is a 26 person charming lumberjack cottage, with the best Sauna around for miles

-3 star camping site area with 55 lawned pockets with electricity, well-equipped service areas and a large indoor eating area with fireplace

Holiday apartment

Target group

• Youth Work (Campschools, 5^th or 6^th grade)
• Social Youth Work (Nuotta Program a preventive program against social exclusion)
• International Youth Work (EVS, Creative Projects as Music or Art, International Projects)

Peaceful moment in winter

Canoeing

Number of young people in contact with centre: Between 3000 to 4000 individual youngsters visit Metsäkartano per year, they come with their classes (around 100 campschools per year), within the context of social youthwork (Nuotta), international projects or other camps

Our activities

• Summer / autumn programs:
  Canoeing, biking, hiking, archery, wall climbing, swamp soccer, team building games, problem solving track in the woods, wilderness skills, environmental education, handicrafts (pottery, t-shirt printing, felt work etc.), overnight trip in the forest, disco…

• Winter programs:
  Cross-country ski trips, snowshoe trips, kick sled tours, winter olympics, tobogganing, archery, wall climbing, handicrafts (pottery, t-shirt printing, felt work etc.), volleyball, basketball, disco, ice fishing, alpine curling, snow sculpturing…
  
  

Winter joy

Metsäkartano cooperates with the schools in the area (Rautavaara in Region of North Savo), the Youthwork in the area, the other Youth Centres in Finland as well as with the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Stuff: Metsäkartano employs 13,5 people full time. Throughout the year 20 people per month are averagely employed, full time staff plus part time workers. Working Fields: Reception, Maintenance, Cleaning, Kitchen, Guides, Social Work, Sales and Marketing, International Youth Work, Program Director, Executive Director

Group gathered before an activitity

 For more information, please visit our website here!

Youth Centre Hyvärilä

Hyvärilä organizes and promote different kind of events in border of youth center (like seminars, workshops, etc.), participates in activities in the youth house of Nurmes, has cooperation with schools, other youth centers and NGOs. Youth workers which are involved in all these processes encourage activities of youngsters and give an opportunity to realize it. Concerning international relations Hyvärilä currently hosts 2 volunteers (from Austria and Belarus). Their main goal is the internalization of local youngsters, they take part in any kind of activities which involve children or young people.

Our facilities:

Beach sauna

• Holiday apartments (every building has 2 stages and included 2 separated rooms (2 sleeping places each), living room and kitchen, sauna, fireplace downstairs and 6 sleeping places upstairs)

• Beach sauna (Rantasauna) (included 2 separated saunas, kitchen, a fire place and living room, Jacuzzi)

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  Pielis Areena

  Course Center (Kurssikeskus)

• PielisAreena (new modern sport hall, which offers a wide range of different sport activities)

• Youth Hostel Rantatupa

• Near Hyvärilä there is lake Pielinen (the 5th biggest lake in Finland) which offers activities like swimming, canoeing, fishing or ice-skating and the forest around the area is perfect for hiking and cross-country-skiing during wintertime.

Course Center

• Pielis-Golf offers a 9-hole-field, a driving-range and a field for practicing. The golf course is open from May to October.

• Accommodation: 

1. Hotel in the main building: double rooms x 14 = 28 places
2. Holiday apartments (6 buildings): 10 persons per one = 60 places
3. Hostel: 15 rooms (1-8 persons per one) = 67 places
4. Pehtoori (Finn hostel): 6 rooms x 4 persons = 24 places
5. Cabins (available during summer time): 26 x 4 persons per one = 64 places
   Summary:  243 places

We also have 15 computers and Video-projectors. We have 5 meeting rooms and presentation auditoriums.

Holiday apartments

Target groups:

Hyvärilä is a part of the Finnish Youth Centre Association. Cooperation among this network is done more or less permanent. Also Hyvärilä releases different projects with local NGOs, social and public communities.As a youth centre Hyvärilä mostly aims at young people (both national and international), and as a holiday centre based on tourists from different countries like Russia, Holland, Germany, etc.

Our activities:

International youth activities, exchanges and voluntary work are of major importance at Hyvärilä. Various international youth projects are coordinated and promoted by Hyvärilä Youth Centre. These have included several European youth exchanges, seminars, youth camps and workshops, where participants across Europe and beyond have participated. Hyvärilä is active user of EU´s Youth in Action -programme, and member of the EURODESK, PLATFORM and ENYC networks. Hyvärilä provides also international youth information services for the youth in the region. Besides European cooperation, also cross -border cooperation, Nordic cooperation and the Baltic Sea cooperation are of Hyväriläs interest.

-Different kind of work with young people: hosting workshops and seminars, improving local youth work, promoting outdoor activities etc.

-Hyvärilä is visited by tourists and customers (restaurant, hotel) on weekly and daily basis.

-Film camps and the annual film festival take place at Hyvärilä’s facilities, but also private events or youth-projects are held there.

-During autumn and spring camp-schools with mainly outdoor-and teambuilding activities are offered for schools in Finland.

-Also sometimes markets and concerts are held on the area of Hyvärilä.

Youth Hostel Rantatupa

Number of staff: 26

Function of staff: organise and promote activites for young people, lead such kind of projects like  seminars, camp-schools, workshops, trainings, initiative activities of young people etc.    

Number of pedagogical staff: 6

Number of (regular) volunteers: 2

For more information, please visit our website here!

Nature Sports and Travel Youth Centre Piispala

Piispala is one of the 10 centres supported by the Finnish Ministry of Education. One of the main goals of the centre is to maintain the development of the local, national and international youth work and to serve as a multi-sided centre of sport activities and education. The centre is well-equipped for practicing various kinds of sports and handcrafts.

Nature, sports and travel youth centre Piispala is an amazing place to organize camps for groups of children and youth in the middle of the beautiful region of Central Finland (Kannonkoski) at the lake Kivijärvi. The centre was established in 1982 and since then it has been a favorite destination for youth camps, including international camps.

Our facilities:

·     Dining hall

Cafeteria

·      2 big lecture halls

·     12 meeting rooms/classrooms of a different size

·     Sports hall for practicing indoor sports ( can be arranged as a conference hall etc.)

·     Several small sports halls for indoor sports (gymnastic, archery, shooting etc.)

·     Heated football hall with an artificial turf, 90m x 62 m x 18m covered field for Finnish baseball, outdoor games etc

Beach

·       Ice hall with 4 (to 8) changing room, PA system, video, big screen etc equipments for ice hockey, figure skating, curling etc. around the year

·        Blademill and ShootOut simulator

·        Swimming hall with 4 lanes 25m each, 3 m diving tower, jacuzzi and a pool for small children

·        Bowling room with 4 lanes

·         Weight lifting room for athletes and gym hall with different sports equipment for aerobics.

·         Indoor climbing wall (6m high+5 routes and 3m x 9m bouldering). Smaller climbing area for children

Conference hall

·         Outdoor climbing tower 13m. Climbing, abseiling and ice climbing (winter)

·         2 rooms for making stone amulets(jewels and soap stone)

·         Half pipe and small slope for snowboarding (ski lift) with separate slope for sledges

·         2 tennis courts

Swimming pool

·          Grilling places kota and laavu

·         Stunt track

·         Traditional sauna with a fisherman’s lodge

·         Lakeside sauna with a gathering room (fireplace)

·         Lighted cross country skiing trails / hiking routes 2km, 3km and 5 km. Piispala is located at the lake Kivijärvi. Beach area has a diving tower (3m, 5m).

Lakeside sauna

·       Accommodation for 232 (basic) and about for 400 with extra beds in different cottages and in raw houses. All accommodation facilities are well equipped. Each room has own bathroom, toilet, refrigerator and microwave oven, kettle, coffeemaker.

· Equipment for conferences, meetings, classroom activities and discos

Bowling

Our activities:

- Various children and youth groups: school camps, leisure and sports camps

- A vast number of activities varying from handcrafts to sports activities and sessions for young people (e.g. Nuotta groups)

- Life in Europe 24h project (14.-28.11.2012) gives an opportunity for several international young people to share own culture, experiences in own countries with Finnish Nuotta groups and raise awareness among the Finnish young people about different youth issues internationally.

Football court

Number of staff: 50 +

Number of (regular) volunteers: 2

We also have important partnerships within Finland:

Local, regional and national partners, schools and youth organisations, a number of organisations involved in different national projects for supporting youth development.

Churchboat

Ice ring

For more information please visit our website here!