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The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards and Young Carers programmes are centered around the Narrow Boat "Dream Catcher" owned by the Warwickshire Association of Youth Club and sponsored by the Royal Leamington Spa Rotary Club who kindly made a donation to the Association to repaint the narrowboat including the Rotary logo
Visit our partner's website by clicking on this line: Warwickshire Association of Youth Clubs
The D1060 RYLA programme received acclaim from Rotary International as qualifying for Rotary Youth Leadership Award status. District 1060 wish to thank the Rotary International RYLA Committee for their continued support.
"After reviewing your program, I believe that your submission certainly would qualify for the RYLA Certificate, and that you definitely have a unique venue in which to teach leadership, team-building, team-bonding, many cooperative skills, and all in the spirit of Rotary"
(Mark Healy, Chairman of RYLA)
The first Rotary programme to use Dream Catcher was the District 1060 International RYLA in 2005 for 8 students from Europe. Following on from this success the International RYLA in 2006 was combined with a RYLA programme for students from the UK. Click on the blue lines for links to the reports.
The programmes were again extended in 2007 and besides the International and UK Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, District 1060 ran a RYLA for District 2430 in Turkey. We understand this was the first time a District in the UK had organised a RYLA for an overseas District.
During the trip Rtn. Erhan Bakir, Rtn John Hughes and our students from Turkey were involved in a 4 hour video shoot for the ITV programme "Waterworld" culminating in 4 minutes of PR for Rotary being televised in 2008.
Rotary 1060 again expanded our programmes on DreamCatcher by launching a programme on the Narrowboat for Young Carers. This new programme started in Spring 2009 in partnership with the Warwickshire Young Carers Project and gave 31 young carers a respite on the boat.
Information on the progammes can be seen in the menu on the left, including the criteria for participation by Rotary Clubs, Rotarians, Students and Young Carers. Please feel free to Email us for any information you may require or to book a programme for your Rotary Club or District.
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