Our Course

Our summer courses address the challenges faced by young people preparing to lead projects in their home communities or further afield. International facilitators and students, will spend 2 weeks thinking about, sharing and practising leadership techniques based around their own individual projects.

We plan to run our next course for students aged 16-17 years on 20 July – 3 August 2023 in partnership with UWC Atlantic, COVID-19 regulations permitting.

Designed to provide the building blocks of compassionate and visionary leadership, the course will analyse traditional leadership thinking, challenging the status quo and explore how leadership thinking applies to their experiences and ambitions.

At ASfYL all participants will help to build a shared understanding of leadership in a variety of local to international and individual contexts. We want to explore what it means to lead and look critically at our own experiences of leadership in practice. Our workshops and activities will allow us all to think about leadership in a critical way. They will also help students appraise and determine the means to communicate their ideas and act upon them when working with others.

We award scholarships to individuals who are in financial need and would not be able to attend without the scholarship. We prioritise those students who live in Wales.

We are able to offer funding to a very limited number of students for the course, accommodation and food, but we cannot offer travel costs to the UK. Please only complete an application form if you are unable to meet the cost of the course yourself.

Applications are closed for 2023

UWC Atlantic

UWC Atlantic College is the founding member of the United World College (UWC) movement and opened in 1962. The College is located in St Donats Castle, dating from the 12th Century AD, and surrounded by a beautiful Welsh, coastal campus. There are now 14 UWC colleges across the globe…

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can I apply without completing the form? Please complete the form and do bear in mind that most questions can be answered if you wish by providing images, diagrams and video as well as text. Who can apply? All students who will be 16 or 17 at the time of the course. We have decided to…

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Guidelines for nominators/referees

Why should I nominate a student? Nominations are essential to us to make informed selection decisions. They help us to know more about the applicants, seeing them through your eyes. Seniority is not important, just that you can speak in detail about the applicant and why he or she would be an appropriate member of our course. What kind…

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Programme

OVERVIEW The 2 week programme will be a chance to meet and work with fellow young people and team leaders from around the world. Every day will bring something new, with campus- based activities, and further afield, where we will make use of the fantastic rugged Welsh coastline and of its capital city Cardiff, which is only…

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Objectives

To deliver courses that will positively affect the attendees by learning and developing the following skills and aptitudes within a short time span. Developing an understanding of leadership in different contexts, such as social entrepreneurship and civic society and the development of individual leaders in settings like…

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Apply

We only award scholarships to individuals who are in financial need and would not be able to attend without the scholarship. We prioritise those students based in Wales. We are able to offer funding to a very limited number of students for the course, accommodation and food, but we cannot offer travel costs to the…

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