PROGRAMME IDEAS

When completing each section of your DofE, you should can find under the category finder on develop a programme which is specific and relevant to you. www.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 Help with planning programme of your own! For each idea, there is a useful You can use the handy programme planner on the website to document giving you guidance on how to do it, which you 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 Volunteering gives you the - Girls’ Venture Corps Judo Anatomy chance to make a difference - Sea Cadets Dance: Astronomy to people’s lives and use - Air Cadets Ballet Self-defence Biology your skills and experience to - Jewish Lads’ and Girls’ Ballroom dancing Botany help your local community. Brigade Belly dancing Tae Kwon Do Chemistry You can use this opportunity - St John Ambulance Bhangra dancing Tai Chi Ecology to become involved in - Scout Association Ceroc Electronics a project or with an - Air Training Corps Contra dance Team : Engineering organisation that you - Army Cadet Force Country & Western American Entomology care about. - Boys’ Brigade Flamenco IT - CCF Folk dancing Marine biology Helping people: - Church Lads’ & Girls’ Jazz Oceanography Helping children Brigade Line dancing Paleontology Helping older people - Girlguiding UK Morris dancing Physics Helping people in need - Girls’ Brigade Salsa (or other Latin styles) Rocket making Helping people with special Sports leadership dancing Dodge disc Taxonomy needs Music tuition Scottish/Welsh/Irish dancing Weather/meteorology Youth work Street dancing/breakdancing/ Fives Website design hip hop Football Zoology Community action & Physical Swing raising awareness: Tap dancing Care of animals Campaigning section Agriculture (keeping livestock) Cyber safety Racquet sports: Doing physical activity is Aquarium keeping Council representation Badminton fun and improves your Beekeeping Drug & alcohol education Matkot health and physical fitness. Caring for reptiles Home accident prevention Racketlon Octopushing There’s an activity to suit Dog training & handling Peer education Rapid ball everyone so choose Horse/donkey/llama/alpaca Personal safety Real tennis Rogaining something you are really handling & care Promotion & PR interested in. Keeping of pets Road safety Table tennis Rugby Tennis Looking after birds (i.e. Individual sports: budgies & canaries) Working with the Stoolball Archery Pigeon breeding & racing environment or animals: Fitness: Athletics (any field or track Animal welfare Aerobics flying disc event) Music Environment Cheerleading Biathlon//Pentathlon Church bell ringing Rural conservation Fitness classes Composing Preserving waterways Gym work Wallyball DJing Working at an animal rescue Croquet Evaluating music & musical centre Medau movement Cross country running performances Litter picking Physical achievement Cycling Improvising melodies Urban conservation Pilates Skills Fencing Listening to, analysing & Beach and coastline Running/jogging Golf describing music conservation section Horse riding Music appreciation Zoo/farm/nature reserve work Walking Developing a skill helps you Playing a musical instrument Weightlifting get better at something you Playing in a band Helping a charity Yoga Pétanque are really interested in and Reading & notating music or community Roller blading gives you the confidence Understanding music in organisation: Extreme sports: Running and ability to use this skill relation to history & culture Administration Caving & potholing Static trapeze both now and later in life. Being a charity intern Climbing Wrestling Natural world Being a volunteer lifeguard Free running (parkour) Performance arts Event management Ice skating Agriculture Water sports: Fundraising Mountain biking Ballet appreciation Conservation Canoeing Mountain rescue Mountain unicycling Ceremonial drill Forestry Religious education Circus skills Gardening Dragon Racing Serving a faith community Skateboarding Conjuring & magic Groundsmanship Free-diving Supporting a charity Skydiving Dance appreciation Growing carniverous plants Working in a charity shop Snow sports (skiing, Majorettes Plant growing & sculling snowboarding) Puppetry Snail farming Coaching, teaching Snowkiting Singing Vegetable growing Skurfing and leadership: Speed skating Speech & drama Sub aqua ( Dance leadership Street luge Theatre appreciation & 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 wheelchair 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. Gliding 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 bicycle 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 Netherlands to --Producing an illustrated Woodland Trust. Sports officiating Canvas work undertake a research guide to a stretch of --Monitoring the bat population Table games Carnival/festival float project on the provisions canal. Research the in the New Forest. War games construction Ceramics and quality of cycle paths history and then travel --Doing dry stone walling in compared to Britain. along the towpath using the West Tyne Valley in the Life skills Clay modelling Crocheting --Producing a nature guide of the expedition to gather shadow of Hadrian’s Wall. Alternative therapies Cross stitch your route for future visitors. photographs and sketches --Helping the preservation Cookery DIY --Investigating features of the to illustrate the guide. team of a narrow gauge Democracy in action Dough craft Thames using the Thames --Creating an expedition railway in mid Wales. Digital lifestyle Drawing cycle path. music play list that reflects Driving: car maintenance/car Dressmaking --Doing a cycle of the team’s experiences. Learning road skills Egg decorating remembrance, taking in --Undertaking a Driving: motorcycle Embroidery the historic wartime sites On horseback cookery course. maintenance/road skills Enamelling in Normandy. --Planning an expedition --Doing a falconry course. Event planning Fabric printing --Creating a video diary of the on horseback in the --Studying traditional dance. First Aid – St John/St Feng Shui expedition, recording each countryside including --Studying art history Andrew/BRCS Floral decoration team member’s experiences. identifying suitable farm in Florence. Hair & beauty French polishing --Following part of the Gerald camp sites and bridleways. --Doing a photography course Learning about the Furniture restoration of Wales route of 1188 --Exploring accessibility run by a university and emergency services Glass blowing through Pembrokeshire. and bridle paths in the exhibiting your work. Learning about the RNLI Glass painting Brecon Beacons. --Learning to snowboard (Lifeboats) Interior design By boat --Planning an expedition with on an intensive course Library & information skills Jewellery making --Exploring the Norfolk Broads sea views in Devon, taking in Scotland. Life skills Knitting using sailing dinghies. photos along the way so --Improving your Spanish Massage Lace making --Exploring different team that you can paint a picture language skills on a course Money management Leatherwork roles needed on a boat of your favourite scene when in Madrid. Navigation Lettering & calligraphy and giving everyone you return. --Learning to write and Public speaking and debating Macramé an opportunity to do a --Creating a series of produce music and putting Skills for employment Marquetry new one. team games to play whilst on a show for locals. Young Enterprise Model construction --Rowing along the Danube on expedition. --Taking part in an astronomy Mosaic in Germany booking camp --Going on an expedition course, learning about Learning & collecting Painting & design sites in advance. through woodland, noting constellations, black holes --Planning a cross-channel the different types and ages and solar systems. Aeronautics Patchwork journey in a yacht. of trees you see. Aircraft recognition Photography --Using simple mapping --Going on a horseriding Activity based Anthropology Pottery techniques to produce a expedition and writing a --Taking part in a week-long Archaeology Quilting map of an estuary on the poem on your return to discovery of stage combat Astronautics Rope work Rug making expedition & compare it with describe your experiences. in Wales. Astronomy a real map when you return. --Going white water in Bird watching Snack pimping Soft toy making --Planning a Bronze sailing New Zealand past glaciers Coastal navigation expedition on Lake Ullswater and mountains. Coins Tatting Residential Taxidermy in the Lake District. --Taking part in a multi- Collections, studies & surveys faith residential, studying Comics Textiles section Weaving and spinning By canoe or different religions. Contemporary legends --Recording the wildlife found Going on a residential gives --Joining an historical Costume study Wine/beer making Woodwork on the Strangford Lough you the chance to learn re-enactment of the Battle Criminology canoe trail. how to work with people of Bosworth. Dowsing & divining --Taking a series of photos from different backgrounds --Joining an ACF activity Fashion to come up with a guide and build confidence living week with members of Forces insignia Expedition to a section of London in new environments. different detachments. Gemstones canal systems. There are loads of Genealogy section --Making a study of the exciting possibilities and Heraldry Going on an expedition locks and lochs on the opportunities, so choose History of art gives you the chance to Caledonian Canal. something which you will Language skills have an adventure, work --Investigating samples find really fulfilling. Military history of the river bed en route as a team, and act on Service to others Movie posters and comparing them with your own initiative. The --Teaching English overseas. Postcards each other. expedition can be as far --Helping out on an overseas Reading --Carrying out a wilderness away or as close to home as pilgrimage (i.e. to Lourdes Religious studies trip in Canada using the you want it to be, and there or Mecca). 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. 4/13