Youth Services

Rotary offers a wide variety of Youth Services for New Generations comprising Youth Programmes, Youth Competitions and Youth Exchange.

Rotary Youth Programmes

Every year, thousands of talented and dedicated young people, ages 12-30, have an incredible experience in a Rotary New Generations programme. 

Interact

As members of Interact and Rotaract Clubs (known as Interactors and Rotaractors) young people can serve in communities at home and abroad.

Interact Clubs (for 12 - 18 year olds) may be formed in schools or community organisations and provide valuable experience of working together on activities and projects to benefit communities locally, nationally or internationally. Interact service can also count as the service element of a young person’s Duke of Edinburgh Award.

Rotaract

Rotaract Clubs are for 18- 30 year olds and can be formed in colleges, universities or community organisations and can also work on projects of value to their communities.

RotaKids

Rotary also has RotaKids Clubs where young people aged between 7 and 12 years can learn to run their own club and projects for their school and community and also have a lot of fun while they do it.

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)

For young people wishing to acquire leadership skills, places on short training courses known as Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) are offered each year and, under the skilled supervision of the RYLA instructors, the young people learn to take on and successfully manage challenges that, before joining the course, of which they would not have thought themselves capable. They emerge as leaders!

Rotary Support to Schools

Many Rotarians offer support to local schools through Mock interviews, Reading Assistance, as School Governors or regularly helping schools with various functions and events. Some Rotary competitions are run in conjunction with schools.

Rotary Youth Competitions