RYDA - What's New

RYDA Australia is pleased to announce that it has secured Suncorp CTP as a major sponsor of the RYDA Program in Queensland. This sponsorship will help more than 10,000 Queensland school students participate in the RYDA program in 2010. Read more here

The RYDA Program received a major honour when it was presented with the 2009 Queensland Road Safety Award in the Community category by the Minister for Transport, Hon Rachel Nolan at Parliament House on Thursday, 8 October.

The Awards are designed to recognise and honour the outstanding efforts of community groups, companies or industry groups, schools, local and state government initiatives, as well as inventions and innovations designed to improve road safety. Read more in the Spring Newsletter

The Tasmanian Premier, David Bartlett announced in September that a range of new initiatives for combating Tasmania's road toll would be introduced, including a stronger focus on young driver education. The Premier said that funding of $100,000 would be provided to enable every government high school student in Tasmania to have access to the RYDA road safety education program. Read more in the Spring Newsletter

The NSW Premier, Nathan Rees visited the RYDA venue at Penrith in Western Sydney on 24 July to support the program with ongoing State Government funding and to meet the 100,000th student who has now attending the RYDA Program in NSW. Read more here

Always a busy time for RYDA, the Spring months will see the program run at 18 of RYDA’s 40 venues around the country. It is estimated that up to 10,000 students will attend the program over this period.

Whilst many programs are continuing or returning for their second, third and in one case, nineth year of operation, the coming months will see several venues conduct pilot programs, establishing opportunities for students to hear these critical road safety messages for the first time in their area.

We wish all our returning venues continued success. To our new venues, Armidale, Gold Coast, Gympie, Noosa and Toowoomba, best wishes for your pilot programs. It takes hard work, dedication and community involvement to deliver a RYDA program but the efforts are well worth while.

For further details on these programs, please visit the venue pages on this website.