<<

PROGRAMME IDEAS

®

When completing each section of your DofE, you should For each idea, there is guidance on how to do it, which you develop a programme which is specific and relevant to you. can find under the links onwww.DofE.org/sections This sheet gives you a list of programme ideas that you could do or you could use it as a starting point to create a You can use the handy programme planner on the website to programme of your own! work with your Leader to plan your activity.

DofE Leadership /body boarding Martial arts: Yoyo extreme Volunteering Group leadership Aikido Leading a voluntary Synchronised swimming Capoeira Science & technology section organisation group: Ju Jitsu Aerodynamics - Girls’ Venture Corps Judo Volunteering gives you the Anatomy - Sea Cadets : chance to make a difference Astronomy - Air Cadets Self-defence to people’s lives and use Biology - Jewish Lads’ and Girls’ Ballroom dancing your skills and experience to Botany Brigade Belly dancing Tae Kwon Do help your local community. Chemistry - St John Ambulance Bhangra dancing Tai Chi You can use this opportunity Ecology - Scout Association Ceroc to become involved in Electronics - Air Training Corps Team : a project or with an Engineering - Army Cadet Force Country & Western American organisation that you Entomology - Boys’ Brigade care about. IT - CCF Folk dancing Marine biology Helping people: - Church Lads’ & Girls’ Jazz Oceanography Helping children to read in Brigade Line dancing Paleontology libraries - Girlguiding UK Morris dancing Physics Helping older people - Girls’ Brigade Salsa (or other Latin styles) Rocket making Helping people in need Sports leadership dancing Dodge disc Taxonomy Helping people with special Music tuition Scottish/Welsh/Irish dancing Weather/meteorology needs Street dancing// Fives Website design Youth work hip hop Football Zoology Physical Community action & Tap dancing Care of animals raising awareness: section Agriculture (keeping livestock) Campaigning Racquet sports: Doing physical activity is Badminton Aquarium keeping Cyber safety Beekeeping Council representation fun and improves your Matkot health and physical fitness. Racketlon Octopushing Caring for reptiles Drug & alcohol education Dog training & handling Home accident prevention There’s an activity to suit Rapid ball everyone so choose Real tennis Horse/donkey/llama/alpaca Peer education handling & care Personal safety something you are really interested in. Table tennis Rugby Keeping of pets Promotion & PR Looking after birds (i.e. Road safety Tennis Individual sports: budgies & canaries) Pigeon breeding & Working with the Fitness: environment or animals: Athletics (any field or track Aerobics flying disc Music Animal welfare event) Cheerleading Environment Biathlon//Pentathlon Fitness classes Church bell ringing Rural conservation Gym work Wallyball Composing Preserving waterways DJing Working at an animal rescue Croquet Medau movement Evaluating music & musical centre Cross country Physical achievement performances picking Pilates Skills Improvising melodies Urban conservation Fencing Running/jogging Listening to, analysing & Beach and coastline Golf section describing music conservation Horse riding Music appreciation Developing a skill helps you Zoo/farm/nature reserve work Weightlifting Playing a musical instrument Yoga get better at something you Playing in a band Helping a charity Pétanque are really interested in and Reading & notating music or community Roller blading Extreme sports: gives you the confidence Understanding music in organisation: Running Caving & potholing and ability to use this skill relation to history & culture Administration Static trapeze both now and later in life. Being a charity intern Wrestling Free running (parkour) Natural world Being a volunteer lifeguard Ice skating Performance arts Agriculture Event management Water sports: Ballet appreciation Conservation Fundraising Canoeing Mountain unicycling Ceremonial drill Forestry Mountain rescue Circus skills Gardening Religious education Dragon Racing Conjuring & magic Groundsmanship Serving a faith community Free-diving Skydiving Dance appreciation Growing carniverous plants Supporting a charity Snow sports (skiing, Majorettes Plant growing Working in a charity shop & sculling ) Puppetry Snail farming Snowkiting Singing Vegetable growing Coaching, teaching Skurfing Speech & drama and leadership: Sub aqua ( Street Theatre appreciation Dance leadership & snorkelling) Ventriliquism Games & sports who are visually impaired --Exploring teamwork by differences along their route, --Helping deafblind young Cards (i.e. bridge) Communicating with people nominating a different leader trying to explain why this people and adults to enjoy Chess who have a hearing each day. may be. a holiday. Clay target shooting impediment --Searching for forms --Being an assistant to Cycle maintenance Film & video making of fungi, recording and By support an eco-friendly Darts Journalism sketching them. --Following a disused railway waste project at an outdoor Dominoes Newsletter & magazine --Planning a route around track noting the current use education centre. /fly fishing production three of the places that of previous railway buildings. --Assisting at a summer camp Flying Signalling inspired Wordsworth’s --Preparing a users’ guide of for Brownies. Writing poems in the Lake District. a country park or National --Helping at an orphanage. Go-karting --Considering the impact of Trust estate, explaining how Historical period re-enacting Creative arts tourism on the flora and it can be used, e.g. fishing, Environment and Kite construction & flying Basket making fauna of the French Alps. picnicking, conservation. conservation --Drawing all the different star --Planning and doing a --Attending a conference on Mah Jongg Boat work constellations you can see. challenging route in the climate change as a youth Marksmanship Brass rubbing --Creating a photo guide to Peak District, making a representative for your Model construction & racing Building catapaults & the Countryside Code round video diary. local authority. Motor sports trebuchets the Mourne Mountains. --Planning a route in Cropton --Studying coral bleaching Power Cake decoration Forest to take a series of in Australia. Snooker, pool & billiards Camping gear making By landscape photographs to --Joining a tree planting Sports appreciation Candle-making --Using the cycle system use in a calendar. project with The Sports leadership building in the to --Producing an illustrated Woodland Trust. Sports officiating Canvas work undertake a research guide to a stretch of --Doing dry stone walling in Table games Carnival/festival float project on the provisions canal. Research the the West Tyne Valley in the War games construction Ceramics and quality of cycle paths history and then travel shadow of Hadrian’s Wall. compared to Britain. along the towpath using --Helping the preservation Life skills Clay modelling Crocheting --Producing a nature guide of the expedition to gather team of a narrow gauge Alternative therapies Cross stitch your route for future visitors. photographs and sketches railway in mid Wales. Cookery DIY --Investigating features of the to illustrate the guide. Democracy in action Dough craft Thames using the Thames --Creating an expedition Learning Digital lifestyle Drawing cycle path. music play list that reflects --Undertaking a Driving: car maintenance/car Dressmaking --Doing a cycle of the team’s experiences. cookery course. road skills Egg decorating remembrance, taking in --Doing a falconry course. Driving: motorcycle Embroidery the historic wartime sites On horseback --Studying traditional dance. maintenance/road skills Enamelling in Normandy. --Planning an expedition --Studying art history Event planning Fabric printing --Creating a video diary of the on horseback in the in Florence. First Aid – St John/St Feng Shui expedition, recording each countryside including --Doing a photography course Andrew/BRCS Floral decoration team member’s experiences. identifying suitable farm run by a university and Hair & beauty French polishing --Following part of the Gerald camp sites and bridleways. exhibiting your work. Learning about the Furniture restoration of Wales route of 1188 --Exploring accessibility --Learning to emergency services Glass blowing through Pembrokeshire. and bridle paths in the on an intensive course Learning about the RNLI Glass painting Brecon Beacons. in Scotland. (Lifeboats) Interior design By boat --Planning an expedition with --Improving your Spanish Library & information skills Jewellery making --Exploring the Norfolk Broads sea views in Devon, taking language skills on a course Life skills Knitting using sailing dinghies. photos along the way so in Madrid. Massage Lace making --Exploring different team that you can paint a picture --Learning to write and Money management Leatherwork roles needed on a boat of your favourite scene when produce music and putting Navigation Lettering & calligraphy and giving everyone you return. on a show for locals. Public speaking and debating Macramé an opportunity to do a --Creating a series of --Taking part in an astronomy Skills for employment Marquetry new one. team games to play whilst course, learning about Young Enterprise Model construction --Rowing along the Danube on expedition. constellations, black holes Mosaic in booking camp --Going on an expedition and solar systems. Learning & collecting Painting & design sites in advance. through woodland, noting --Planning a cross-channel the different types and ages Activity based Aeronautics Patchwork journey in a yacht. of trees you see. --Taking part in a week-long Aircraft recognition Photography --Using simple mapping --Going on a horseriding discovery of stage combat Anthropology Pottery techniques to produce a expedition and writing a in Wales. Archaeology Quilting map of an estuary on the poem on your return to --Going white water in Astronautics Rope work Rug making expedition & compare it with describe your experiences. New Zealand past glaciers Astronomy a real map when you return. and mountains. Bird watching Snack pimping Soft toy making --Planning a Bronze sailing --Taking part in a multi- Coastal navigation expedition on Lake Ullswater faith residential, studying Coins Tatting Residential Taxidermy in the Lake District. different religions. Collections, studies & surveys --Joining an historical Comics Textiles section Weaving and spinning By canoe or re-enactment of the Battle Contemporary legends --Recording the wildlife found Going on a residential of Bosworth. Costume study Wine/beer making Woodwork on the Strangford Lough gives you the chance to --Joining an ACF activity Criminology canoe trail. learn how to work with week with members of Dowsing & divining --Taking a series of photos people from different different detachments. Fashion to come up with a guide backgrounds and build Forces insignia Expedition to a section of canal confidence living in new Gemstones systems. environments. There Genealogy section --Making a study of the are loads of exciting Heraldry Going on an expedition locks and lochs on the possibilities and History of art gives you the chance to Caledonian Canal. opportunities, so choose Language skills have an adventure, work --Investigating samples something which you will Military history as a team, and act on of the river bed en route find really fulfilling. Movie posters and comparing them with your own initiative. The Service to others Postcards each other. expedition can be as far --Teaching English overseas. Reading --Carrying out a wilderness away or as close to home as --Helping out on an overseas Religious studies trip in using the you want it to be, and there pilgrimage. Ship recognition canoe trails used by the are hundreds of ways you --Being a leader at an Stamp collecting original settlers. can go about it. overseas children’s camp --Choosing several points that promotes healthy eating Media & communication along a river and measure On foot and exercise. speed of flow, width and Amateur radio --Studying insect life on the --Rebuilding a school roof depth and comparing the Communicating with people . in Lesotho. 08/17