Programme Ideas: Volunteering Section

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Programme ideas: Volunteering section

When completing each section of your DofE, you to people’s lives and use your skills and experience should develop a programme which is specific to help your local community. You can use this and relevant to you. This sheet gives you a list of opportunity to become involved in a project or programme ideas that you could do or you could use with an organisation that you care about. it as a starting point to create a Volunteering section programme of your own. Help with planning You can use the programme planner on the website to You can find more information atDofE.org/ work with your Leader to plan and agree your activity volunteering and there is a range of exciting before you start. opportunities to help you complete this section at DofE.org/finder. Before you begin, it is important to check that your volunteering meets the criteria for businesses and It’s your choice… family members (see DofE.org/volunteering for Volunteering gives you the chance to make a difference the requirements).

Helping people Working with the Coaching, teaching and Helping children environment or animals leadership Helping children to read in Animal welfare Dance leadership libraries Environment DofE Leadership Helping in medical services e.g. Rural conservation Group leadership Hospitals Preserving waterways Head student Helping older people Working at an animal rescue Leading a voluntary Helping people in need centre organisation group Helping people with special Litter picking - Girls’ Venture Corps needs Urban conservation - Sea Cadets Tutoring Beach and coastline - Air Cadets Young carer conservation - Jewish Lads’ and Youth work Zoo/farm/nature reserve work Girls’Brigade - St John Ambulance Community action & Helping a charity or - Scout Association raising awareness community organisation - Air Training Corps - Army Cadet Force Campaigning Administration - Boys’ Brigade Cyber safety Being a charity intern - CCF Council representation Being a volunteer lifeguard - Church Lads’ & Girls’ Drug & alcohol education Event management Brigade Home accident prevention Fundraising - Girlguiding UK Neighbourhood watch Mountain rescue - Girls’ Brigade Peer education Religious education Sports leadership Personal safety Serving a faith community Music tuition Promotion & PR Supporting a charity Road safety Working in a charity shop

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Programme ideas: Physical section

When completing each section of your DofE, you and there is a range of exciting opportunities to help should develop a programme which is specific and you complete this section at DofE.org/finder. relevant to you. Many of the DofE programme activities can be adapted to meet the needs of young people It’s your choice… with disabilities and some, referred to as adapted Doing physical activity is fun and improves your health sports, are unique to disabled people. and physical fitness. There’s an activity to suit everyone so choose something you are really interested in. This sheet gives you a list of programme ideas that you could do or you could use it as a starting point to Help with planning create a physical programme of your own. You can use the programme planner on the website to work with your Leader to plan and agree your activity You can find more information atDofE.org/physical before you start.

Individual sports Water sports Scottish/Welsh/Irish Extreme sports Camogie dancing Cricket Airsoft Canoeing Street dancing/ BMX Curling Archery Diving breakdancing/hip Caving & potholing Dodge disc Athletics (any field or Dragon Boat Racing hop Climbing Dodgeball track event) Free-diving Swing Free running Fives Biathlon/Triathlon/ Kite surfing Tap dancing (parkour) Football Pentathlon/ Kneeboarding Ice skating Frame football Aquathon Rowing & sculling Mountain biking Racquet sports Futsal Bowls Sailing Mountain unicycling Gaelic football Boxing Skurfing Badminton Parachuting Goalball Croquet Sub aqua (SCUBA Matkot Skateboarding Handball Cross country diving & Racketball Skydiving Hockey running snorkelling) RacketlonRackets Snow sports (skiing, Hurling Cycling Surfing/body Rapid ball snowboarding, Ice hockey Fencing boarding Real tennis snowkiting) Kabaddi Geocaching Swimming Squash Speed skating Korfball Golf Synchronised Table tennis Street luge Lacrosse Gymnastics swimming Tennis Netball Horse riding Underwater rugby Wheelchair tennis Martial arts Octopushing Modern pentathlon Wakeboarding Polo Aikido Motocross Windsurfing Fitness Quidditch Orienteering Capoeira Roller derby Paintballing Dance Aerobics Ju Jitsu Rogaining Pétanque Cheerleading Judo Rounders Roller blading Ballet Fitness classes Karate Rugby (union/League) Roller skating Ballroom dancing Gym work Kendo Sitting Volleyball Running Belly dancing Medau movement Mixed martial arts Sledge hockey Softball Bhangra dancing Physical Self-defence Sledge ice hockey Static trapeze Ceroc achievement Sumo Stoolball Supercross Contra dance Pilates Tae Kwon Do Tchoukball Ten pin bowling Country & Western Pole dancing Tai Chi Tug of war Trampolining Flamenco Running/jogging Ultimate flying disc Wheelchair fencing Folk dancing Walking Team sports Volleyball Wrestling Jazz Weightlifting Wallyball Line dancing Wii-fit American football Water polo Morris dancing Yoga Baseball Wheelchair Salsa (or other Latin Basketball basketball styles) dancing Boccia Wheelchair rugby

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Programme ideas: Skills section

When completing each section of your DofE, you It’s your choice… should develop a programme which is specific Developing a skill helps you get better at something you are and relevant to you. This sheet gives you a list of really interested in and gives you the confidence and ability to programme ideas that you could do or you could use this skill both now and later in life. use it as a starting point to create a Skills programme of your own. Help with planning You can use the programme planner on the website to You can find more information atDofE.org/skills and work with your Leader to plan and agree your activity there is a range of exciting opportunities to help you before you start. complete this section at DofE.org/finder.

Performance arts Physics Playing a musical instrument Rocket making Playing in a band Ballet appreciation Taxonomy Reading & notating music Ceremonial drill Weather/meteorology Understanding music in relation Circus skills Website design to history & culture Conjuring & magic Zoology Majorettes Care of animals Puppetry Natural world Agriculture (keeping livestock) Singing Agriculture Aquarium keeping Speech & drama Conservation Beekeeping Theatre appreciation Forestry Caring for reptiles Ventriliquism Gardening Dog training & handling Yoyo extreme Groundsmanship Horse/donkey/llama/alpaca Growing carniverous plants handling & care Plant growing Science & technology Looking after birds (i.e. budgies Snail farming Aerodynamics and canaries) Vegetable growing Anatomy Pet care – health/training/ App design maintenance Astronomy Pigeon breeding & racing Games & recreation Biology Cards (i.e. bridge) Botany Music Chess Chemistry Clay target shooting Church bell ringing Coding/ programming Coxing Composing Ecology Cycle maintenance DJing Electronics Darts Evaluating music & musical Engineering Dominoes performances Entomology Fishing/fly fishing Improvising melodies IT Flying Listening to, analysing & Marine biology Gliding describing music Oceanography Go-karting Music appreciation Paleontology Historical period re-enacting continued over... Kite construction & flying Fashion Feng Shui Mah Jongg Forces insignia Floral decoration Marksmanship Gemstones French polishing Model construction & racing Genealogy Furniture restoration Motor sports Heraldry Glass blowing Power boating History of art Glass painting Snooker, pool & billiards Language skills Interior design Sports appreciation Military history Jewellery making Sports leadership Movie posters Knitting Sports officiating Postcards Lace making Table games Reading Leatherwork War games Religious studies Lettering & calligraphy Life skills Ship recognition Macramé Alternative therapies Stamp collecting Marquetry Cookery Model construction Democracy in action Media & communication Mosaic Digital lifestyle Painting & design Amateur radio Driving: car maintenance/car Patchwork Blogging road skills Photography Communicating with people who Driving: motorcycle maintenance/ Pottery are visually impaired road skills Quilting Communicating with people who Event planning Rope work have a hearing impediment First aid – St John/St Andrew/ Rug making Film & video making BRCS Snack pimping Journalism Hair & beauty Soft toy making Newsletter & magazine Learning about the emergency Tatting production services Taxidermy Signalling Learning about the RNLI Textiles Vlogging (Lifeboats) Weaving and spinning Writing Library & information skills Wine/beer making Life skills Woodwork Massage Creative arts Money management Basket making Navigation Boat work Public speaking and debating Brass rubbing Skills for employment Building catapaults & trebuchets Young Enterprise Cake decoration Camping gear making Learning & collecting Candle-making Canoe building Aeronautics Canvas work Aircraft recognition Carnival/festival float construction Anthropology Ceramics Archaeology Clay modelling Astronautics Crocheting Astronomy Cross stitch Bird watching DIY Coastal navigation Dough craft Coins Drawing Collections, studies & surveys Dressmaking Comics Egg decorating Contemporary legends Embroidery Costume study Enamelling Criminology Fabric printing Dowsing & divining

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Programme ideas: Expedition section

When completing each section of your DofE, you It’s your choice… should develop a programme which is specific and Going on an expedition gives you the chance to have relevant to you. This sheet gives you a list of ideas that an adventure, work as a team, and act on your own you could do or you could use it as a starting point initiative. The expedition can be as far away or as close to create an Expedition of your own. Remember, it’s to home as you want it to be, and there are hundreds always your adventure. of ways you can go about it.

You can find more information atDofE.org/expedition Help with planning and there is a range of exciting opportunities to help You can use the handy programme planner on the you complete this section website to work with your Leader to plan your activity. If at DofE.org/finder. you have additional needs talk to your leader about the support and variations that could help you.

On foot Creating a video diary of the Making a study of the locks Planning a route in a forest to expedition, recording each and lochs on the Caledonian take a series of landscape Studying how insect life differs team member’s experiences. Canal. photographs to use in a from woodland to open fields. Following part of the Gerald of Investigating samples of calendar. Exploring teamwork by Wales route of 1188 through the river bed en route and Producing an illustrated nominating a different leader Pembrokeshire. comparing them with each guide to a stretch of canal. each day. other. Research the history and Searching for forms of fungi, By boat Carrying out a canoe trip and then travel along the towpath recording and sketching create a storyboard (photo/ using the expedition to Sailing the Norfolk Broads to them. painted/drawn) of your gather photographs and explore modern and ancient Planning a route and create a expedition. sketches to illustrate the uses of the area. signpost selfie guide. Choosing several points along guide. Exploring different team roles Considering the impact of a river and measure speed needed on a boat and giving tourism on the flora and of flow, width and depth and On horseback everyone an opportunity to fauna of the area you are in. comparing the differences do a new one. Exploring bridle paths Drawing all the different star along their route, trying to Rowing along a large river and create an A-Z of the constellations you can see. explain why this may be. Creating a photo guide to the recording the types of boats outdoors from the trip. Countryside Code. and their uses. By wheelchair Planning an expedition with Planning a significant sea sea views, taking photos By bicycle journey under sail to record Creating an expedition music along the way so that you the effects of coastal erosion. play list that reflects the can paint a picture of your Using a cycle system to Using simple mapping team’s experiences. favourite scene when you undertake a research project techniques to produce a Following a disused railway return. on the provisions and quality map of an estuary on the track noting the current use Creating a series of team of cycle paths. expedition, comparing it with of previous railway buildings. games to play whilst on Producing a nature guide of a real map when you return. Planning and doing a expedition. your route for future visitors. challenging route in the Peak Going on an expedition Investigating features of the By canoe or kayak District, making a video diary. through woodland, noting Thames using the Thames Preparing a users’ guide of the different types and ages Recording the wildlife found cycle path. a country park or National of trees you see. on a large inlet or loch. Plan a cycle of remembrance Trust estate, explaining how Going on a horseriding Taking a series of photos to which visits war memorials it can be used, e.g. fishing, expedition and writing a come up with a guide to a to understand the scale of picnicking, conservation. poem on your return to section of canal systems. the losses. describe your experiences.

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Programme ideas: Residential section

When completing each section of your DofE, you how to work with people from different backgrounds should develop a programme which is specific and and build confidence living in new environments. relevant to you. There are loads of exciting possibilities and opportunities, so choose something which you will find This sheet gives you some ideas of things you could do really fulfilling. or could use as a starting point to create a Residential of your own. Help with planning You can use the programme planner on the website to You can find more information atDofE.org/residential plan your activity with the support of your DofE Leader. and there is a range of exciting opportunities to help you complete this section at DofE.org/finder. Before you commit to a residential it is important to have approval from your DofE Manager to ensure that It’s your choice… it meets all the criteria (see DofE.org/residential for Going on a residential gives you the chance to learn the requirements).

Please note: The programme ideas listed below are thinking prompts, we cannot guarantee that these programmes are actively run by providers.)

Service to others Environment and Learning Activity based conservation Being a leader at a UK- Undertaking a cookery Taking part in a sport based holiday camp Joining a tree planting course. based residential for disadvantaged project with your local Doing a photography developing your young people. environment trust. course and exhibiting basketball skills. Undertaking a voluntary Attending a conference your work. Taking part in multi-faith teaching placement on climate change as Taking part in a residential, studying overseas. a youth representative bushcraft residential. different religions. Being part of a service Helping the Spending time on Joining an ACF activity crew at a large preservation team of a a narrowboat and week with members of summer camp for railway or canal training towards different detachments Brownies. Studying coral becoming a skipper. you don’t know. Volunteering on a YHA bleaching in Australia. Taking part in a field Learning to snowboard residential summer Joining a National studies course. on an intensive course camp. Trust working holiday Learning to write and in Scotland. Volunteering at a and join different produce music and Joining an historical re- residential summer conservation projects putting on a show. enactment school. in various locations Taking part in an Being an assistant across the UK. astronomy course, to support an eco- Taking part in a Field learning about friendly waste Studies course constellations, black project at an outdoor learning about holes and solar education centre biodiversity and systems. Helping out on a conservation. Taking part in a week- pilgrimage. long Gaelic or Welsh language and culture course.