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District 1020 - Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)
What is RYLA about?
RYLA is Rotary's own program to encourage the development of future community and business leaders and succeeds by:
- helping them to find out who they are
- creating a testing environment for them to operate in
- challenging them both physically and mentally
- supporting them while they deal with fears that hold them back
- teaching them how to be effective servant leaders
- encouraging them to get involved in the wider world
- making it all fun
Latest Information sheets for 2010 RYLA
RYLA **NEW APPLICATION PROCESS**
RYLA Candidate Selection guidance
RYLA International Camp information
RYLA Application Form and Notes
How do we do it?
By combining the best of outward bound activities with current best practice in leadership training all cumulating in a final challenge to:
- put the future leaders under pressure
- apply the skills they have acquired during the week
- work effectively as a team when tired and stressed
- discover the benefits of delegation
- recognise and utilise skills in others
- work to tight deadlines
- understand the problems of leadership
- learn from their own mistakes
What attendees say about RYLA
- Amazing
- Life changing
- Challenging
- Stretching
- Exciting
- Unforgetable
- Strangers become life long friends
- Fun
- Fabby Dooo!
Find out more about the RYLA experience here (Broadband speed internet connection recommended).
What you can do
- If you are a Rotarian simply ensure your club is supporting the District 1020 RYLA program by having a budget, finding, selecting and sending candidates to the week long course.
- If you have found this by chance, you are (or know someone) between 15 and 18 and you want the opportunity to attend either the male or female week, E-mail: ryla@rotary1020.org.uk for more information.
- Note: the average age of attendees is 17 and that the week is wholly funded by the sponsoring Rotary Club.
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