Rotary offers FREE leadership
experience for 16 & 17 year
olds.
Rotary in
Knaresborough is looking for a young person to benefit from a one-week
residential leadership course to be held during the summer of 2023. The Rotary youth leadership award course (RYLA) is designed to allow
young people to experience at first hand the challenge of leadership. This
course is open to young men and women who are over 16 at the start and under 18
on the day the course concludes.The course contains a
mixture of physical and mental
challenges that allow participants to experience leadership, team building, communication, and problem-solving skills.These are based on both indoor and outdoor activities including water
activities, orienteering, raft building and presentations. Rotary has
been running these courses for over 20 years and has helped over 1,000 young
adults to develop their personal skills as a leader. Rotary is proud of the
system of helping to develop the leaders of tomorrow and looks forward to
meeting and working with many more in the future. The course takes place at
Hebden Hay, a Scout hostel situated in the Hardcastle Crags valley above Hebden
Bridge.The course
dates for 2023 are Course
1 Sunday 23rd July 2023 to Friday 28th July 2023
Course 2 Sunday 30th July 2023 to Friday 4th August 2023 Full sponsorship is available through Rotary in Knaresborough. The course staff are made up of a team of professional instructors and Rotarians from around the Yorkshire are who supervise the activities and offer feedback to the awardees on their performance, Awardees must be at least 16 and not have attained 18 years of age at the start and finish of the course.In 2019 Knaresborough Rotary Club sponsored Explorer Scout Alex Romanec, a pupil at the St Aidan’s and St John Fisher Associated Sixth Form and a member of the Tewit Silver Band. Unfortunately courses for 2020 & 2021 were cancelled due to Covid For more information and application forms contact Rotarian Deborah Wilson at dw.rotary@gmail.com
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