Programme ideas When completing each section of your Award, you should can find under the category finder onDofE.org/sections develop a programme which is specific and relevant to you. (please note that this website carries DofE branding only) This sheet gives you a list of programme ideas that you could do or you could use it as a starting point to create Help with planning a 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.

Being a volunteer lifeguard Croquet Racketlon Rounders Volunteering Event management Cross country running Rapid ball Rugby section Fundraising Cycling Real tennis Sledge hockey Mountain rescue Fencing Squash Ultimate flying disc Volunteering gives you the Religious education Golf Table tennis Volleyball chance to make a difference Serving a faith community Horse riding Tennis Wallyball to people’s lives and use Supporting a charity your skills and experience to Working in a charity shop Orienteering Fitness: help your local community. Pétanque Aerobics You can use this opportunity Coaching, teaching Roller blading Cheerleading to become involved in and leadership: Running Fitness classes Skills a project or with an Dance leadership Static trapeze Gym work section organisation that you DofE Leadership Wrestling Gymnastics care about. Group leadership Physical achievement Developing a skill helps you Leading a voluntary Water sports: Pilates get better at something you Helping people: organisation group: Canoeing Running/jogging are really interested in and Helping children to read in • Air Training Corps Trampolining gives you the confidence libraries • Boys’ Brigade Dragon Racing Walking and ability to use this skill Helping older people • Cancer Fund for Children Free-diving Weightlifting both now and later in life. Helping people in need • Catholic Guides of Ireland Yoga Helping people with special • Combined Cadet Force & sculling Performance arts needs • Church Lads’ & Girls’ Brigade Extreme sports: Ballet appreciation Youth work • Girlguiding Skurfing Caving & potholing Ceremonial drill • Girls’ Brigade Sub aqua Climbing Circus skills Community action & • Mencap /body boarding Free running (parkour) Conjuring & magic raising awareness: • Northern Ireland Fire and Mountain biking Dance appreciation Campaigning Rescue Service Synchronised Skateboarding Puppetry Cyber safety • Order of Malta Ireland Swimming Skydiving Singing Council representation • Royal Association Snow sports Speech & drama Drug & alcohol education • Scout Association Speed skating Theatre appreciation Home accident prevention • Scouting Ireland Dance: Peer education • Sea Cadets Ballet Martial arts: Science & technology Personal safety • St John Ambulance Ballroom dancing Aikido Aerodynamics Promotion & PR Sports leadership Belly dancing Ju Jitsu Anatomy Road safety Music tuition Bhangra dancing Judo Astronomy Ceroc Karate Ecology Working with the Contra dance Self-defence Electronics environment or animals: Country & Western Sumo Engineering Animal welfare Physical Flamenco Tae Kwon Do IT Environment Folk dancing Tai Chi section Science Rural conservation Irish/Scottish/Welsh Weather/meteorology Preserving waterways Doing physical activity is dancing Team sports: Website design Working at an animal rescue fun and improves your Jazz American football Zoology centre health and physical fitness. Line dancing Baseball Litter picking There’s an activity to suit Morris dancing Basketball Care of animals Urban conservation everyone so choose Salsa (or other Latin styles) Camogie Beach and coastline something you are really dancing Cricket Agriculture (livestock) conservation interested in. Street dancing/ Curling Aquarium keeping Zoo/farm/nature reserve work breakdancing Fives Beekeeping Individual sports: Swing Football Dog training/handling Helping a charity Archery Tap dancing Hockey Keeping of pets/birds or community Athletics Hurling Pigeon breeding/racing organisation: Biathlon/ Racquet sports: Korfball Administration Bowling Badminton Lacrosse Music Being a charity intern Boxing Matkot Netball Church bell ringing Composing Military history By boat • Improving your Irish DJing Movie posters • Exploring different team Residential language skills on a Evaluating music Postcards roles needed and giving Language course. Music appreciation Reading everyone the chance to do a section • Learning to write and Playing an instrument Religious studies new one. Going on a residential produce music and putting Ship recognition • Planning a cross-channel gives you the chance to on a show for locals. Natural world Stamp collecting journey in a yacht. learn how to work with • Taking part in an astronomy Agriculture • Using simple mapping people from different course, learning about Conservation Media & communication techniques to make a map backgrounds and build constellations, black holes Gardening Amateur radio of an estuary & compare it confidence living in new and solar systems. Groundsmanship Film & video making with a map when you return. environments. There Plant growing Journalism • Planning a Gold sailing are loads of exciting Writing expedition on Lake possibilities and Activity based Games & sports Ullswater. opportunities, so choose • Taking part in a week-long discovery of stage combat Cards (e.g. bridge) Creative arts something which you will By or in Wales. Chess Boat work find really fulfilling. • Taking a series of photos to • Going white water in Clay pigeon shooting Cake decoration produce a guide to a section Service to others New Zealand past glaciers Cycle maintenance Camping gear making of canal systems. • Teaching languages. and mountains. Darts Carnival/festival float • Making a study of the locks • Helping out on an overseas • Taking part in a multifaith construction and lochs on the Caledonian pilgrimage (e.g. to Lourdes residential, studying Flying/gliding Clay modelling Canal. or Mecca). different religions. Go-karting DIY • Investigating samples of • Being a leader at an Historical period Dough craft the river bed and comparing overseas children’s camp re-enacting Drawing them with each other. that promotes healthy Marksmanship Dressmaking • Choosing several points eating and exercise. Model construction Fabric printing along a river and measuring • Rebuilding a school roof in Motor sports Furniture restoration speed of flow, width and Lesotho. Snooker, pool etc. Interior design depth and comparing the • Helping deaf/blind young Sports appreciation Jewellery making differences along the route. people and adults to enjoy Sports leadership Model construction a holiday. Sports officiating Painting & design By wheelchair • Being an assistant Table games Photography • Following a disused railway tosupport an eco-friendly Snack pimping track noting the current use waste project at an outdoor Life skills Soft toy making of previous railway buildings. education centre. Woodwork Alternative therapies • Planning and doing a route • Assisting at a summer Cookery in the Peak District, making camp for Catholic Guides. Car maintenance Expedition a video diary. • Helping at an orphanage. Digital lifestyle • Planning a route and taking Event planning section pictures to use in a calendar. Environment and First aid • Producing an illustrated conservation Going on an expedition Hair & beauty guide to a stretch of canal. • Joining a tree planting gives you the chance to Library skills Research the history project with Conservation have an adventure, work Money management and then travel along the Volunteers. as a team, and act on Navigation towpath using the expedition • Monitoring the bat your own initiative. The Public speaking to gather photographs and population in the New expedition can be as far Skills for employment sketches to illustrate it. Forest. away or as close to home as Young Enterprise • Studying coral bleaching in you want it to be, and there On horseback Australia. are hundreds of ways you Learning & collecting • Exploring accessibility and • Helping the preservation can go about it. Aeronautics bridle paths in the Brecon team of a narrow gauge Aircraft recognition Beacons. railway in mid Wales. On foot • Planning an expedition with • Doing dry stone walling in Anthropology • Studying insect life. sea views in Co Down, the Mournes. Archaeology • Exploring teamwork by taking photos along the • Attending a conference on Astronautics nominating a different leader way so that you can paint climate change as a youth Astronomy each day. a picture of your favourite representative for your local Bird watching • Searching for forms of fungi, scene when you return. authority. Coastal navigation recording & sketching them. • Creating a series of Coins Collections, studies & • Considering the impact of team games to play on Learning surveys tourism on the flora & fauna. expedition. • Undertaking a cookery Comics • Creating a photo guide to • Going on a horseriding course. Contemporary legends The Countryside Code. expedition and writing a • Doing a falconry course. Costume study Criminology poem on your return to • Studying traditional dance. By bicycle Dowsing & divining describe your experiences. • Studying art history in • Producing a nature guide of Florence. Fashion Forces insignia your route for future visitors. Gemstones • Doing a photography • Doing a remembrance course run by a university Genealogy cycle, taking in the historic Heraldry and exhibiting your work. wartime sites in Normandy. • Learning to snowboard History of art • Creating a video diary of the Language skills on an intensive course in expedition. Scotland. 25/02/16