PROGRAMME THE DUKE OF

EDINBURGH’S AWARD ® IDEAS

When completing each section of your DofE, you should programme planners on the website to plan your activity with develop a programme which is specific and relevant to you. the support of your DofE Leader. This sheet gives you some ideas of things you could do or could use as a starting point to create a programme of your NOTE: Before you commit to a residential it is important own. You can find more information atDofE.org/sections to have approval from your DofE Manager to ensure that and there is a range of exciting opportunities to help you it meets all the criteria (see DofE.org/residential for the complete this section at DofE.org/finder. You can use the requirements).

VOLUNTEERING - Sea Cadets • Underwater rugby • Street luge • Conjuring & magic - Air Cadets • Wakeboarding • Majorettes - Jewish Lads’ and • Windsurfing Martial arts • Puppetry Helping people Girls’Brigade • Aikido • Singing • Helping children - St John Ambulance Dance • Capoeira • Speech & drama • Helping children to read in - Scout Association • Ballet • Ju Jitsu • Theatre appreciation libraries - Air Training Corps • Ballroom dancing • Judo • Ventriliquism • Helping in medical - Army Cadet Force • Belly dancing • Karate • Yoyo extreme services e.g. Hospitals - Boys’ Brigade • Bhangra dancing • Kendo • Helping older people - CCF • Ceroc • Mixed martial arts Science & technology • Helping people in need - Church Lads’ & Girls’ • Contra dance • Self-defence • Aerodynamics • Helping people with Brigade • Country & Western • Sumo • Anatomy special needs - Girlguiding UK • Flamenco • Tae Kwon Do • App design • Tutoring - Girls’ Brigade • Folk dancing • Tai Chi • Astronomy • Young carer • Sports leadership • Jazz • Biology • Youth work • Music tuition • Line dancing Team sports • Botany • Morris dancing • American football • Chemistry Community action & • Salsa (or other Latin styles) • Baseball • Coding/ programming raising awareness PHYSICAL dancing • Basketball • Ecology • Campaigning • Scottish/Welsh/Irish • Boccia • Electronics • Cyber safety Individual sports dancing • Camogie • Engineering • Council representation • Airsoft • Street dancing/ • Cricket • Entomology • Drug & alcohol education • Archery breakdancing/hip hop • Curling • IT • Home accident prevention • Athletics (any field or track • Swing • Dodge disc • Marine biology • Neighbourhood watch event) • Tap dancing • Dodgeball • Oceanography • Peer education • Biathlon/Triathlon/ • Fives • Paleontology • Personal safety Pentathlon/Aquathon Racquet sports • Football • Physics • Promotion & PR • Bowls • Badminton • Frame football • Rocket making • Road safety • Boxing • Matkot • Futsal • Taxonomy • Croquet • Racketball • Gaelic football • Weather/meteorology Working with the • Cross country running • RacketlonRackets • Goalball • Website design environment or animals • Cycling • Rapid ball • Handball • Zoology • Animal welfare • Fencing • Real tennis • Hockey • Environment • Geocaching • Squash • Hurling Care of animals • Rural conservation • Golf • Table tennis • Ice hockey • Agriculture (keeping • Preserving waterways • Gymnastics • Tennis • Kabaddi livestock) • Working at an animal • Horse riding • Wheelchair tennis • Korfball • Aquarium keeping rescue centre • Modern pentathlon • Lacrosse • Beekeeping • Litter picking • Motocross Fitness • Netball • Caring for reptiles • Urban conservation • Orienteering • Aerobics • Octopushing • Dog training & handling • Beach and coastline • Paintballing • Cheerleading • Polo • Horse/donkey/llama/ conservation • Pétanque • Fitness classes • Quidditch alpaca handling & care • Zoo/farm/nature reserve • Roller blading • Gym work • Roller derby • Looking after birds (i.e. work • Roller skating • Medau movement • Rogaining budgies & canaries) • Running • Physical achievement • Rounders • Pet care – health/training/ Helping a charity or • Static trapeze • Pilates • Rugby (union/League) maintenance community organisation • Supercross • Pole dancing • Sitting Volleyball • Pigeon breeding & racing • Administration • Ten pin bowling • Running/jogging • Sledge hockey • Being a charity intern • Trampolining • Walking • Sledge ice hockey Music • Being a volunteer lifeguard • Wheelchair fencing • Weightlifting • Softball • Church bell ringing • Event management • Wrestling • Wii-fit • Stoolball • Composing • Fundraising • Yoga • Tchoukball • DJing • Mountain rescue Water sports • Tug of war • Evaluating music & • Religious education • Canoeing Extreme sports • Ultimate flying disc musical performances • Serving a faith community • Diving • BMX • Volleyball • Improvising melodies • Supporting a charity • Dragon Boat Racing • Caving & potholing • Wallyball • Listening to, analysing & • Working in a charity shop • Free-diving • Climbing • Water polo describing music • Kite surfing • Free running (parkour) • Wheelchair basketball • Music appreciation Coaching, teaching and • Kneeboarding • Ice skating • Wheelchair rugby • Playing a musical leadership • Rowing & sculling • Mountain biking instrument • Dance leadership • Sailing • Mountain unicycling • Playing in a band • DofE Leadership • Skurfing • Parachuting SKILLS • Reading & notating music • Group leadership • Sub aqua (SCUBA diving • Skateboarding • Understanding music in • Head student & snorkelling) • Skydiving Performance arts relation to history & culture • Leading a voluntary • Surfing/body boarding • Snow sports (skiing, • Ballet appreciation organisation group • Swimming snowboarding, snowkiting) • Ceremonial drill Natural world - Girls’ Venture Corps • Synchronised swimming • Speed skating • Circus skills • Agriculture • Conservation • Heraldry EXPEDITION comparing them with each crew at a large summer • Forestry • History of art other. camp for Brownies. • Gardening • Language skills On foot • Carrying out a canoe trip • Volunteering on a YHA • Groundsmanship • Military history • Studying how insect life and create a storyboard residential summer camp. • Growing carniverous • Movie posters differs from woodland to (photo/painted/drawn) of • Volunteering at a plants • Postcards open fields. your expedition. residential summer school. • Plant growing • Reading • Exploring teamwork by • Choosing several points • Being an assistant to • Snail farming • Religious studies nominating a different along a river and measure support an eco-friendly • Vegetable growing • Ship recognition leader each day. speed of flow, width and waste project at an • Stamp collecting • Searching for forms of depth and comparing the outdoor education centre Games & recreation fungi, recording and differences along their Helping out on a pilgrimage. • Cards (i.e. bridge) Media & communication sketching them. route, trying to explain why • Chess • Amateur radio • Planning a route and this may be. Environment and • Clay target shooting • Blogging create a signpost selfie conservation • Coxing • Communicating with guide. By wheelchair • Joining a tree planting • Cycle maintenance people who are visually • Considering the impact • Creating an expedition project with your local • Darts impaired of tourism on the flora music play list that reflects environment trust. • Dominoes • Communicating with and fauna of the area you the team’s experiences. • Attending a conference on • Fishing/fly fishing people who have a are in. • Following a disused climate change as a youth • Flying hearing impediment • Drawing all the different railway track noting the representative • Gliding • Film & video making star constellations you current use of previous • Helping the preservation • Go-karting • Journalism can see. railway buildings. team of a railway or canal • Historical period re- • Newsletter & magazine • Creating a photo guide to • Planning and doing a • Studying coral bleaching in enacting production the Countryside Code. challenging route in the Australia. • Kite construction & flying • Signalling Peak District, making a • Joining a National Trust • Mah Jongg • Vlogging By bicycle video diary. working holiday and join • Marksmanship • Writing • Using a cycle system to • Preparing a users’ guide of different conservation • Model construction & undertake a research a country park or National projects in various racing Creative arts project on the provisions Trust estate, explaining locations across the UK. • Motor sports • Basket making and quality of cycle paths. how it can be used, • Taking part in a Field • Power boating • Boat work • Producing a nature guide e.g. fishing, picnicking, Studies course learning • Snooker, pool & billiards • Brass rubbing of your route for future conservation. about biodiversity and • Sports appreciation • Building catapaults & visitors. • Planning a route in a forest conservation. • Sports leadership trebuchets • Investigating features of to take a series of landscape • Sports officiating • Cake decoration the Thames using the photographs to use in a Learning • Table games • Camping gear making Thames cycle path. calendar. • Undertaking a cookery • War games • Candle-making • Plan a cycle of • Producing an illustrated course. • Canoe building remembrance which guide to a stretch of canal. • Doing a photography Life skills • Canvas work visits war memorials to Research the history and course and exhibiting your • Alternative therapies • Carnival/festival float understand the scale of then travel along the towpath work. • Cookery construction the losses. using the expedition to gather • Taking part in a bushcraft • Democracy in action • Ceramics • Creating a video diary of photographs and sketches to residential. • Digital lifestyle • Clay modelling the expedition, recording illustrate the guide. • Spending time on a • Driving: car maintenance/ • Crocheting each team member’s narrowboat and training car road skills • Cross stitch experiences. On horseback towards becoming a • Driving: motorcycle • DIY • Following part of • Exploring bridle paths skipper. maintenance/road skills • Dough craft the Gerald of Wales and create an A-Z of the • Taking part in a field • Event planning • Drawing route of 1188 through outdoors from the trip. studies course. • First aid – St John/St • Dressmaking Pembrokeshire. • Planning an expedition • Learning to write and Andrew/BRCS • Egg decorating with sea views, taking produce music and putting • Hair & beauty • Embroidery By boat photos along the way on a show. • Learning about the • Enamelling • Sailing the Norfolk Broads so that you can paint a • Taking part in an emergency services • Fabric printing to explore modern and picture of your favourite astronomy course, • Learning about the RNLI • Feng Shui ancient uses of the area. scene when you return. learning about (Lifeboats) • Floral decoration • Exploring different team • Creating a series of team constellations, black holes • Library & information skills • French polishing roles needed on a boat games to play whilst on and solar systems. • Life skills • Furniture restoration and giving everyone an expedition. • Taking part in a week-long • Massage • Glass blowing opportunity to do a new • Going on an expedition Gaelic or Welsh language • Money management • Glass painting one. through woodland, noting and culture course. • Navigation • Interior design • Rowing along a large river the different types and • Public speaking and • Jewellery making recording the types of ages of trees you see. Activity based debating • Knitting boats and their uses. • Going on a horseriding • Taking part in a sport • Skills for employment • Lace making • Planning a significant expedition and writing a based residential • Young Enterprise • Leatherwork sea journey under sail poem on your return to developing your basketball • Lettering & calligraphy to record the effects of describe your experiences. skills. Learning & collecting • Macramé coastal erosion. • Taking part in multi-faith • Aeronautics • Marquetry • Using simple mapping residential, studying • Aircraft recognition • Model construction techniques to produce a RESIDENTIAL different religions. • Anthropology • Mosaic map of an estuary on the • Joining an ACF activity • Archaeology • Painting & design expedition, comparing it Please note: The week with members of • Astronautics • Patchwork with a real map when you programme ideas different detachments you • Astronomy • Photography return. listed below are thinking don’t know. • Bird watching • Pottery prompts, we cannot • Learning to snowboard • Coastal navigation • Quilting By canoe or kayak guarantee that these on an intensive course in • Coins • Rope work • Recording the wildlife programmes are actively run Scotland. • Collections, studies & • Rug making found on a large inlet or by providers.) • Joining an historical re- surveys • Snack pimping loch. enactment society. • Comics • Soft toy making • Taking a series of photos Service to others • Contemporary legends • Tatting to come up with a guide • Being a leader at a UK- • Costume study • Taxidermy to a section of canal based holiday camp for • Criminology • Textiles systems. disadvantaged young • Dowsing & divining • Weaving and spinning • Making a study of the locks people. • Fashion • Wine/beer making and lochs on the Caledonian • Undertaking a voluntary • Forces insignia • Woodwork Canal. teaching placement • Gemstones • Investigating samples of overseas. • Genealogy the river bed en route and • Being part of a service

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