PROGRAMME THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD IDEAS

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

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

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