Youth Service
The club is involved in a number of activities for the benefit of young people
Current Activities
Schools Technology Tournament
Funding for Wensleydale School and Leyburn primary school to enable disadvantaged pupils to attend extra-curricular activities/courses etc, which would otherwise be denied them.
Sponsorship for a local young person to attend RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards); the following video was created by a RYLA awardee as thanks for the RYLA experience;
Youth Service sub-pages:
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Wensleydale Young Musician of the Year 2024
more St Matthew's Church, Leyburn recently featured a very successful second running of the Wensleydale Young Musician competition
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Wensleydale Young Musician of the Year
more As part of the Rotary National Young Musician of Year competition, Wensleydale Rotary Club joined with BlueBoxt Creative and Performing Arts in Leyburn to hold the Wensleydale Area heat of the competition held on the 2nd December. (1 page below this)
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Rotary North Group School Technology Tournament 2023
more Wensleydale Rotary Club members helped steward and judge the efforts of students at the Rotary Technology Challenge 2023
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Rotary Technology Challenge
more Wensleydale Rotary Club members David Spashett and Howard Binks judge the efforts of students at the 2022 Rotary Technology Challenge.
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Rotary Young Leadership Award (RYLA)
more Wensleydale Rotary sponsored a local student to attend the annual RYLA residential week at Hebden Bridge
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Wensleydale Rotary school IT donations
more Rotarians are donating laptops and other IT equipment to Wensleydale School
YOUNG WRITER 2020/21
more This is a national writing competition for young people, sponsored by Rotary to add value to the literacy curriculum in schools and colleges.
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Rotary North Group School Technology Tournament 2020
more Wensleydale Rotarians, along with colleagues from Thirsk and Northallerton, hosted this year's School Technology Tournament at Catterick Garrison
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Rotary north Group School Technology Tournament 2019
more Wensleydale Rotarians, along with colleagues from Thirsk and Northallerton, hosted this year's School Technology Tournament at Catterick
Rotary School Technology Tournament 2018
more Wensleydale Rotarians, along with colleagues from Thirsk and Northallerton, hosted this year's School Technology Tournament at Catterick
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Rotary North Group School Technology Tournament 2017
more This year's Tournament was attended by some 80 students
Rotary Technology Tournament for Schools
more Eighty eight young people in teams of four students from seven schools across North Yorkshire attended this year’s Rotary Club Technology Tournament at Catterick Garrison. This was organised by several local Rotary Clubs including Wensleydale.
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Sally Lane's adventure in Ecuador
more Sally Lane and Lucy Porter described their experiences with Camping International in Ecuador. Wensleydale Rotary had given a donation to Sally to help her fundraising efforts to enable her to go.
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Rotary Technology Tournament for schools 2015
more Teams of four students from seven schools across North Yorkshire attended this year’s Rotary Club Technology Tournament at Catterick Garrison. This was organised by several local Rotary Clubs including Wensleydale
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Dictionaries 4 Life
more Wensleydale Rotary gives illustrated dictionaries to pupils about to leave primary school.
Rotary Young Photographer
more Wensleydale Rotary club is organising a local heat for the Rotary Young Photographer Competition
Rotary Young Citizen Award Commendation
more The Rotary Club of Wensleydale recommended Sam Blackburn for this year's Rotary Young Citizen Awards. He did not quite make the national final, but did receive a commendation.
ACTIVITIES
Rotary Technology Tournament
more Rotary Club of Wensleydale joined with Clubs from Richmond, Northallerton, and Thirsk to organise a techology tournament for schhols in our area.
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Crocus Planting at Askrigg Primary School
more Pupils planted crocuses as part of the nation wide Rotary "Focus on the Crocus" initiative.
Rotary Technology Tournament
more The Rotary Clubs of Wensleydale, Richmond, Northallerton and Thirsk joined to organise a schools technology tournament