Welcome to the BMC Huts Survey 2023

The BMC Huts Group undertook a major survey of club huts in 2016. If you have not already seen the results you can read a summary on the BMC website A sunny outlook for club huts?.
Huts were also surveyed during the 2020/21 during covid restrictions, but with a very specific focus on finding out how huts were managing the challenges of the lockdowns and restrictions.

We would like you to take part in a comprehensive survey that includes sustainability for mountain huts.  From this we will be able to share information about how clubs are addressing climate change, market factors, and returning after Covid.  As in the previous survey, individual club’s data will be confidential and will only be published in an aggregated form.  From this you may find ways to improve your ways of working.

If you are doing great things, we may contact you and ask to showcase them to support the rest of the huts network.

Questions are predominantly tick boxes and short answers with some free text.  If precise figures are not available, then an estimate is acceptable.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask via huts@thebmc.co.uk

To thank you for your participation the BMC give three random entries, received via the deadline Tuesday 19 December 2023, a £25 voucher to spend in the BMC shop.

Thanking you again for your cooperation.
The first series of questions are general details about you and your club

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* 1. Club Name

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* 2. Contact name

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* 3. Position in your club / on hut management committee

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* 4. Contact email

This series of questions are general details about your club hut

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* 5. Name of hut

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* 6. Location of hut (nearest town or village + county)

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* 7. Date (year) hut was built (approx.)

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* 8. Date converted to club hut (or date built if a custom build)

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* 9. How many separate buildings do you have on site?

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* 10. Is it registered as a

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* 11. Do you own or rent your hut?

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* 12. Do you have a paid cleaner?

The next series of questions are about the facilities at the hut

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* 13. How many people does it accommodate (maximum)?

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* 14. What are the sleeping arrangements?

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* 15. How many vehicles can park at the hut?

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* 16. Do you have electric car charging available?

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* 17. Do you have separate male/female toilets or bathroom facilities?

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* 18. Do you have showers?

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* 19. Who can stay at the hut?

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* 20. What is the price of the bed night in pounds sterling?

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* 21. How many bed nights have been used in the past 12 months?

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* 22. How are bed-nights booked?

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* 23. How is the hut accessed?

The next series of questions are about utilities at the hut and environmental sustainability

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* 24. How is water sourced?

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* 25. Does the hut have double glazing?

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* 26. Does the hut have insulation?

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* 27. Does the hut have solar panels?

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* 28. Does the hut have a heat pump?

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* 29. What is the main heating fuel for the hut?

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* 30. What secondary heating is there?

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* 31. What is the main cooking fuel?

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* 32. What are the sewage arrangements?

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* 33. What is the main lighting?

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* 34. Do you have a drying room at the hut?

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* 35. If yes, how is it heated?

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* 36. Does the hut have a smart meter?

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* 37. Do you regularly monitor energy usage?

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* 38. Have you had an Energy Performance Assessment for your hut?

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* 39. What is the area you heat in the hut, in m2?

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* 40. Would you be interested in sharing competitive energy usage and costs between huts?

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* 41. What reasons and restraints are there for modifying the hut?

The next series of questions are about the return to hut usage after the Covid restrictions.

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* 42. Did you get any Covid support grants?

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* 43. What is the occupancy level after Covid?

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* 44. Increasing hut income after Covid?

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* 45. Thank you for your time in completing this questionnaire, if you wish to make any other comments please do so below.

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