Powerful Youth: Global Leadership Academy UK Recently Updated

The Global Leadership Academy is an award-winning transformative summer leadership program outside of Cambridge, England that welcomes passionate teens ages 14-18 from around the world! Our experiential learning approach helps teens build self-confidence, develop leadership soft skills, and gain a global perspective while helping them create meaningful change in their lives and the lives of others.

We know that all youth are powerful. However, they often lack the leadership skills and confidence necessary to be effective leaders of their own future success. Participants develop these skills during our award-winning program in a supportive, international environment through an experiential learning approach that prioritizes hands-on learning, personalized attention, and community building. The Global Leadership Academy is an opportunity for teens from around the world to come together and develop valuable skills so they can create the future they want to see for themselves and others!

The program is packed with hands-on activities, team challenges, fascinating field trips, breathtaking outdoor activities, inspirational guest speakers and new experiences in historic Bury Saint Edmunds, England (near Cambridge!). Youth will also work towards developing their leadership skills so they can enact real positive change! Community service and group service projects help participants gain the skills, experience, and confidence to be leaders, and then they will have the opportunity to develop and present their own leadership projects to put into action in their community once they return home.

The program tuition includes all program materials, insurance, airport transportation as well as 6 months of post-program online coaching to ensure youth continue their personal development they committed to during the program.

What makes Powerful Youth’s Global Leadership Academies so unique and valuable for international youth?

• Combine the best of an abroad experience, summer camp, pre-university program and leadership academy all into ONE program!
• Youth work & learn in entrepreneurial teams with other international students from across the world
• Earn a certificate that details 60+ hours of leadership training, community impact, and overall accomplishments during the program
• Potentially earn course credit or approved service hours for requirements such as: International Baccalaureate CAS, National Honor Society, Duke of Edinburgh Award, and more
• Develop time management and planning tools to lead real service projects
• Experience-based learning with no English language requirements necessary
• Each participant is offered 6 months of post-program leadership coaching
• 6:1 staff-to-student ratio
• Student scholarships and financial aid are available