The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is a high quality, enjoyable, challenging and rewarding programme of personal development activities for young people aged 14-25. It is designed to be enjoyable and rewarding while promoting personal development, self-reliance and leadership skills. It operates in three progressive sections:

The additional section for Gold participants is a Residential (staying away from home for five days and four nights doing a shared activity).

You can do a Bronze DofE programme once you’re 14 (or nearly 14, which sometimes happens when you and your friends decide to start your adventure together).
The Bronze DofE programme has 4 sections, Volunteering, Physical, Skills and Expedition.
It will usually take you at least 6 months to complete your Bronze programme.

All students must undertake a further 3 months in the Volunteering, Physical or Skills sections (your choice!)

The next step… you need to be at least 15 to start doing your Silver DofE programme. If you’ve achieved your Bronze Award, your Licensed Organisation may allow you to start your Silver a month or two before your 15th birthday.
A Silver DofE programme also has 4 sections, Volunteering, Physical, Skills and Expedition.

It will take you at least 6 months for Silver if you’ve already achieved your Bronze, or 12 months if you’ve jumped straight into Silver.

Direct entrants (students not completed Bronze) must undertake a further 6 months in Volunteering or the longer of the Physical or Skills sections.

• DofE expeditions must be unaccompanied, self-reliant and by the participants own physical efforts.
• For the Bronze Award, participants need to complete a 2 day expedition carrying all of their kit, walking an average of 14 kilometres per day and camping over-night.
• For the Silver Award, students will need to complete a 3 day expedition carrying all of their kit, walking an average of 16 kilometres per day, camping overnight both with and without supervision.

Groups will be assessed by Mr Croydon and Mr Mosedale, who is a fully accredited Duke of Edinburgh Assessor.

• DofE website – https://www.dofe.org/
• Volunteering ideas – https://www.dofe.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/programme_ideas_-_volunteering.pdf
• Skills ideas – https://www.dofe.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/programme_ideas_-_skills.pdf
• Physical ideas – https://www.dofe.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/programme_ideas_-_physical.pdf
• Expedition Kit List – https://www.dofe.org/shopping/dofe-expedition-kit-list/