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Suggested Activities Sheet When completing each section of your DofE, you should develop a programme, which is specific and relevant to you.

Any extra- curricular activity you participate in can probably be used to complete a section.

This sheet gives you a list of ideas that you could do to help you create a programme of your own.

Volunteering Zoo/farm/nature health and physical Jazz Ju Jitsu section reserve work fitness. There’s an Line dancing Judo Helping a activity to suit Morris dancing Volunteering gives charity or everyone so Salsa (or other Self-defence you the chance to community choose something Latin styles) make a difference organisatio you are interested dancing Tae to people’s lives nAdministra in. Scottish/Welsh/Irish Kwon Do and use your skills tion dancing Tai Chi and experience to Being a charity Individual Street help your local intern dancing/breakdanc community. You Being a volunteer Athletics (any field ing/ hip hop Team sports can use this lifeguard or track event) Swing American opportunity to Event management Biathlon/Triathlon/P Tap dancing become involved in Fundraising entathlon a project or with an Mountain rescue Racquet sports organisation that Religious education Badminton you care about. Serving a faith Croquet Matkot Cross country Helping people community Racketlo Supporting a charity running n Rapid Dodge disc Helping children Working in a charity Cycling ball Helping older shop Fencing Real tennis Fives people Golf Football Coaching, Helping people in Horse riding Table tennis teaching and need Modern pentathlon Tennis leadership Helping people with Fitness Dance Pétanque Aerobics special needs leadership Roller blading Cheerleading Youth work DofE Running Fitness classes Leadership Static trapeze Gym work Octopushing Community Group leadership Wrestling action & raising Leading a voluntary Water sports Medau movement awareness organisation Rogaining Campaigning Canoeing Physical group: Cyber safety Diving achievement - Girls’ Venture Rugby Council Pilates Corps representation Racing Running/jogging - Sea Cadets Drug & alcohol Free-diving - Air Cadets education Kneeboarding Walking flying disc Home accident - Jewish Lads’ and Rowing & sculling Weightlifti prevention Girls’ Brigade Sailing ng Yoga Peer education - St John Skurfing Water Personal safety Ambulance Sub aqua (SCUBA Extreme sports polo Promotion & - Scout Association diving & Caving & potholing Climbing PR Road - Air Training Corps snorkelling) Skills section safety - Army Cadet /body Free running (parkour) Force boarding Working with the Swimming Ice skating Developing a skill - Boys’ Brigade environment or Synchronised Mountain biking helps you get better - CCF at something you animals swimming Mountain unicycling - Church Lads’ & are really interested Animal welfare Windsurfing Environment Girls’ Brigade Skateboarding in and gives you Rural conservation - Girlguiding UK- Dance Skydiving the confidence and ability to use this Preserving Girls’ Brigade Snow sports skill both now and waterways Sports Ballet (skiing, later in life. Working at an leadership Ballroom dancing snowboarding) animal rescue Music tuition Belly dancing Snowkiting Performance arts centre Bhangra dancing Speed skating Litter picking Physical section Ceroc Street luge Ballet appreciation Urban conservation Contra dance Ceremonial drill Beach and Doing physical Country & Western Martial arts Circus skills coastline activity is fun and Flamenco Aikido Conjuring & magic conservation improves your Folk dancing Capoeira Dance appreciation DJing Table Comics Carnival/festival Majorettes Evaluating music & games Contemporary float construction Puppetry musical War legends Ceramics Singing performances games Costume study Clay modelling Speech & drama Improvising Criminology Crocheting Theatre melodies Dowsing & divining Cross appreciation Listening to, Fashion stitch Life skill Ventriliquism analysing & Forces insignia DIY Yoyo extreme describing music Alternative Gemstones Dough craft Music appreciation therapies Cookery Genealogy Drawing Science & Playing a musical Democracy in Heraldry Dressmaking technology instrument action History of art Egg decorating Aerodynamics Playing in a band Digital lifestyle Language Embroidery Anatomy Reading & notating Driving: car skills Enamelling Astronomy music maintenance/car Military Fabric printing Biology Understanding road skills history Feng Shui Botany music in relation to Driving: motorcycle Movie Floral decoration Chemistry history & culture maintenance/road posters French polishing Ecology skills Postcards Furniture Natural world Electronics Event planning Reading restoration Agriculture Engineering First Aid – St Religious studies Glass Entomology Conservation John/St Ship recognition blowing IT Forestry Andrew/BRCS Stamp collecting Glass Marine biology Gardening Hair & beauty painting Media & Oceanography Groundsmanship Learning about the Interior communication Paleontology Growing emergency design Physics carniverous plants services Amateur radio Jewellery making Rocket making Plant growing Learning about the Communicating Knitting Taxonomy Snail farming RNLI (Lifeboats) with people who are Lace making Weather/meteorolo Vegetable growing Library & visually impaired Leatherwork gy Games & sports information skills Communicating Lettering & Website Cards (i.e. bridge) Life skills with people who calligraphy design ChessClay target Massage have a hearing Macramé impediment Zoology shooting Money Marquetry Cycle maintenance management Film & video Model construction Care of animals making Darts Navigation Mosaic Journalism Agriculture (keeping Dominoes Public speaking Painting & design livestock) Fishing/fly fishing and debating Newsletter & Patchwork Aquarium keeping magazine Flying Skills for Photography production Beekeeping Gliding employment Pottery Caring for reptiles Go-karting Young Enterprise Signallin Quilting Dog training & Historical period re- gWriting Rope work handling enacting Learning & Creativeart Rug making Horse/donkey/lla Kite construction & collecting Snack pimping ma/alpaca flying Basket Soft toy Aeronautics handling & care Mah Jongg making making Keeping of pets Aircraft recognition Marksmanship Boat work Tatting Looking after birds Anthropology Model construction Brass rubbing Taxidermy (i.e. budgies & Archaeology & racing Building catapults & Textiles canaries) Astronautics Motor sports trebuchets Weaving and Pigeon breeding & Astronomy Power boating Cake decoration spinning racing Bird watching Snooker, pool & Camping gear Wine/beer making billiards Coastal navigation Music making Woodwork Sports appreciation Coins Church bell ringing Candle-making Sports leadership Collections, studies Composing Canoe building Sports officiating & surveys Canvas work

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Suggested list of activities which can be completed at home

Physical *Do a free web based CISCO *Meditation – Headspace app *Complete the couch to 5k, or Course in Internet of many of the other NHS fitness Things, Linux Volunteering sessions Unhatched or Cyber Security *You can be a social media *Do an online yoga course * Learn coding and programming volunteer for St John Ambulance with Lizzie Ward Yoga, The skills online *You can fundraise to raise Kindness Club, Yoga *Learn to build a website money for the Royal medical CharmD or The Yoga Gate * Explore The Great Indoors with Benevolent Fund through Medic *Do an hour’s YouTube fitness weekly activities from the Scouts Mentor video each week (you can try *Brush up on your driving skills *You can take part in a John Muir Bootcamps, pilates, dance with GA Driving Award and help to conserve routines and more) Education’s home-based course nature from home *If you’ve got a garden, do some *Try Growing Minds’ *Volunteer for Kissing It circuit training online wellbeing and mindfulness Better and remote support elderly *Get out on your bike in your local course people who are in isolation area – use an app to track your *Sharpen your photography skills *Take part in a digital personal routes to upload as evidence on with Sharp Shots Photo safety campaign with Resolve It eDofE Club or Click Photography. *St John Ambulance – 12 week *WiiFit games *Learn to cook in your own fundraising plan *Completing different walks in kitchen with a brilliant remote *Try some ideas from Leonard your local area cookery course from one of our Cheshire’s guide to 12-week * skills (i.e. practising skills Approved Activity Providers: Be volunteering from home to develop in your favourite sport) in the Kitchen, Blackberry * Putting the fun in fundraising *Fitness challenges (e.g. 100 Cottage, Egg and with the British Heart Foundation press up challenge, plank Soldiers, Flora’s Kitchen, Kiddy *Become an Energy Envoy with challenge, step challenge) Cook, Lorna Wing the National Energy Foundation Cookery, Sassy Stirrers, The * Virtual volunteering Skills Organic Cookery * Missing maps project *Share your creative talents and School and Ruth’s Little Kitchen *Participate in research of all interests and achieve an Arts *Make your own bath bombs and kinds, from classifying galaxies to Award qualification soaps with Soakster counting penguins to transcribing *You can do a John Muir *Learning sign language manuscripts with Zooniverse Award to discover nature from *Learn first aid with St John *If you are a Young Carer, your home Ambulance caring responsibilities can count *You can do a STEM based *Learn to knit, sew or crochet for your volunteering. The project and do a CREST Award *Make birthday / greeting cards – Assessor should be a *Take part in online quizzes and learning to do decoupage or print professional who is supporting learn about new subjects screen you with your caring role, ideally with Quizlet *Learn some DIY skills – help out from a Young Carers Project or *Do an free online money with any jobs at home Social Work/Youth Work management course with the * Learn to garden – set up a departments. Young Carers Open University vegetable or herb plot at home should also be encouraged to *Complete an online course *Create an app to help with online contact their nearest Young with U:Bee learning for primary students Carers Project *Complete a MOOC (Massive *Learn to conjure / do magic *Prepare some sessions for Open Online Course) in an area tricks future Beaver, Cub, Rainbow, that interests you * Research your family: set up a Brownie or youth group meeting *Complete ICC Educate’s online family tree online and use for once they resume Awesome Exporting course resources to find out more about *Prepare some resources to be *Complete weekly Adventures At them – call your family to chat used by the younger members of Home with Girl Guiding about their memories and family your youth group to be sent home *Take part in online music stories – ask them to send copies to parents online to help them lessons with Waltham Forest of birth and death certificates to during isolation Music Tuition help you in your research – how *Prepare some meal parcels, go *Join the virtual youth orchestra if far can you go back? shopping or walk the dog of you already play an instrument *Reading; write and share a book people who are affected by *Learn to play an instrument – review of each one you read coronavirus use YouTube or other online *Painting, drawing or model *Skype talk / face time / videos to help you making WhatsApp call to the elderly *Complete an online typing *Table top gaming neighbour to keep them from course with Spark 4 Kids, Type * Film making or vlogging being isolated It or Qwerty Kids *Put up a birdfeeder and learn *Maintain Facebook or Instagram * Learn how to code with Ignite about the birds coming to your page / websites for a local group Hubs or Spark 4 Kid garden or charity