because the site value was very high (e.g. Stainforth). When the news broke, there was a storm of protest not only among the membership, but also in local communities and local and regional government. Despite the protests, YHA proceeded with the plan. Some hostels, such as Liverpool, have obtained reprieves either temporary or permanent and are still open, but most of the other disposals have taken place. A number of the hostels disposed of have reopened, either as independent hostels or as Enterprise hostels within YHA. In 2008, as part of the move towards raising standards, YHA replaced the traditional sheet sleeping bag with a fitted bottom sheet, duvet cover and pillow cases. From 2015, guests at most youth hostels found their beds already made for them. At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, YHA had a network of around 140 youth hostels. In the previous ten years, YHA had sold or not renewed the leases on 86 properties. Of these, 21 continued to run as part of the YHA network under a licensing scheme, YHA Enterprise. The sales of those properties netted YHA over £20 million, but YHA continued to make a small operating loss. The value of the property portfolio prices was £77.15 million. In May 2010, YHA announced that, in a further realignment of the network and to support long-term financial stability called the "Capital Strategy", two new hostels would open in 2010 and eight would close. The two new hostels were Southease in Sussex and Berwick on Tweed. Those closed were Capel Curig (Gwynedd), Exeter (Devon), Grasmere Thorney Howe (Cumbria), Hunstanton (Norfolk), Kendal (Cumbria), River Dart (Devon), Saffron Walden (Essex), and Scarborough (North Yorkshire). By the beginning of 2011, Capel Curig and Grasmere had both been sold and negotiations were in progress to sell the remainder (with the exception of Exeter – which was sold in 2013). On 8 February 2011, a further update to the "Capital Strategy" was announced that will see £4 million invested in the hostels at Black Sail (Lake District), Woody's Top (Lincolnshire), Wilderhope (Shropshire), Rowen (Snowdonia), Grinton Lodge (North Yorkshire), Salcombe (Devon), Poppit Sands (Pembrokeshire), Tintagel (Cornwall) and Wells-next-the-Sea (Norfolk). At the same time, the closure of a further nine hostels was announced, with the intention to begin the sales at the end of summer 2011. The hostels to close are Derwentwater, Helvellyn, Hawkshead (all Lake District),