Strategic Review April 2016 

RYA Scotland launches a comprehensive set of dates to engage the boating community across Scotland upon strategic objectives.

RYA Scotland is about to embark on a comprehensive review of our strategic objectives.

We want to engage the boating community in a wide ranging conversation that will reflect on our achievements over the last few years and establish those areas we need to address for the future.

 

We want to understand what our members and key stakeholders see as being the priorities for our organisation over the next four years so together we can formulate a clear strategy to guide all our activities.

 

To do this we will be undertaking a Scotland wide series of members’ evenings to engage directly with individuals, Clubs and Training Centres throughout the month of April.  The CEO and a number of key volunteers will travel to every corner of Scotland and want to hear from as many people as possible.

 

If you are a member of the RYA, a member of an affiliated Club, a Recognised Training Centre or an active RYA instructor, coach or race official you are invited to attend one of the evening sessions nearest to you.  These sessions are structured to enable everyone present to take part in small group discussions which promise to be informative and engaging and will help shape the future for RYA Scotland.

 

James Allan, CEO at RYA Scotland, said, “this is one of those rare opportunities to get out an about and hear what people have to say directly.  I’m really looking forward to meeting so many of our boating community and getting engaged in a good discussion.  It is incredibly important that we hear all about what people feel we do well and could do better, things we should be doing and perhaps not doing to help make boating even better across Scotland.”

 

To back up these sessions and ensure everyone has the opportunity to contribute, we will also open up an online questionnaire which will be live through April and be available to the entire boating community.  In addition, our staff will be sitting down with our partners and key stakeholders to have direct conversations about their thoughts on our future direction.

 

Tony Gorzkowski, Chairman of RYA Scotland stressed the importance for everyone to get involved saying, “RYA Scotland is the governing body for boating in Scotland . We need to have our members and partners in Scotland informing this review process so that the organisation continues to do the very best for our members and the wider boating community in Scotland.  The evening sessions across the country will be a great opportunity for people to meet the key volunteers from our committees and will be quite sociable too.  The online questionnaire will be quick and easy and will make sure everyone can have an input and of course we will be happy for people to drop us a note directly if they prefer.”

 

RYA Scotland has moved forward significantly over the last four years and seen a sustained growth in membership.  We want our organisation to continue to flourish and deliver on our purpose to protect and promote safe, successful and rewarding boating in Scotland.  This is your opportunity to help us do so.

To view the dates please visit our events link here.

An online survey has been produced if you wish to contribute to the review process and is available here:

Strategic Review Survey 2016

You may have the chance to win a Navionics Code for Mobile Charts and Apps by completing the survey.

If you wish to share you views on area of RYA Scotland's work then please send them to review@ryascotland.org.uk