Support for RYLA
The club sponsored a local scout leader for the one-week course at Grafham Water in August
One of Rotary’s most successful programmes is the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA). This is a training programme for leaders and potential leaders aged 18 to 25, so may include school or university students or young people already in or seeking employment. The aim is to help them discover and develop the skills needed to become leaders in the community and in their careers as well as in everyday life. In East Anglia the programme has for many years been based at the outdoor centre at Grafham Water. The participants spend a week there in August where they experience a series of challenges: working in teams they explore problem-solving strategies; are exposed to leadership issues; learn how to arrange youth activities and community service programmes; and practise team-building and team-leadership skills. This year the Rotary Club of King’s Lynn sponsored a local scout leader, 18- year-old, Emma Peers, who spoke to the Club recently and enthused about the programme and what she had gained from it. Emma described the experience as ‘the best thing I have ever done.’ A significant part of the week was spent taking part in practical team challenges such as designing a raft and racing it against other teams. A highlight for Emma was an overnight expedition, involving sailing across Grafham Water, hiking to a specified and then setting up camp. Because of her scouting background she took the lead for her team in this expedition. Other team-building exercises and the opportunity to make a personal presentation on a topic of choice were of great value and Emma felt that she had certainly increased in self-confidence. Her detailed account of the week at Grafham Water was very well received by the members of the Rotary Club and they were particularly impressed by the answer he gave to a question on what she had learned about Rotary. She described it as ‘groups of people coming together to make a difference within their communities, helping people and improving the lives of those around them.’
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A group from the Rotary Club of King's Lynn walked from Hunstanton to Thornham as part of a walk along the King Charles III Coastal path.
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Mike Douglas has taken over as President of the Rotary Club of King's Lynn in its Centenary Year
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Members of the Club and partners spent some time at the RNLI headquarters in Old Hunstanton on Sunday 8 February .
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The local round of this Rotary competition told place on 8 November 2023 at Springwood High School
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Each year club presents copies of the Usbourne Illustrated Dictionary to Year 5 pupils in local primary schools.
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The Town Hall and Corn Exchange in King's Lynn were lit up in purple to celebrate World Polio Day on 24 October
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The Rotary Youth Speaks Competition is designed to support & encourage the development of effective communication skills.
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Following this planting session, The Rotary Club of King's Lynn will have (over a period of 6 years) planted 45,000 purple crocus corms on the verges and roundabouts of King's Lynn.
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A public speaking competition organised by Rotary. There are local, district, regional and national rounds,
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