PROGRAMME IDEAS

When completing each section of your DofE, you which you can find under the category finder on should develop a programme which is specific www.DofE.org/sections and relevant to you. This sheet gives you a list of programme ideas that you could do or you could Help with planning use it as a starting point to create a programme You can use the handy programme planner on of your own! For each idea, there is a useful the website to work with your Leader to plan document giving you guidance on how to do it, your activity. Award Leadership Surfing/body boarding Music appreciation Volunteering Boys’ Brigade Swimming Music - playing an Campaigners Synchronised swimming instrument section CCF Windsurfing Singing Volunteering gives you Church Lads and Girls the chance to make a Dance Leadership Dance: Rugby League Natural world difference to people’s Girlguiding UK Dance Union Agriculture lives and use your skills Girls’ Brigade Scottish dancing Stoolball Cacti growing and experience to help Girls’ Venture Corps Welsh folk dancing Conservation your local community. Outdoor Leadership Flying Disc Groundsmanship You can use this Scout Association Racquet : Forestry opportunity to become Sea Cadets Badminton Gardening involved in a project or Sports Leadership Real tennis Natural world with an organisation St John Ambulance Squash Skills section Orchid growing that you care about. Leadership Table Tennis Plant growing Tennis Developing a skill helps you get better Transport restoration Helping people: Fitness: at something you are Helping children Physical really interested in Games & sports Helping older people Cheerleading Fitness activities and gives you the Snooker, pool and Helping people in need section confidence and ability billiards Helping people with Gymnastics Doing physical activity Keep fit to use this skill both Cards (Bridge) special needs is fun and improves now and later in life. Chess Youth work Medau movement your health and Physical achievement Clay target shooting physical fitness. Cycle maintenance Community action & Trampolining Performance arts There’s an activity Walking Darts raising awareness: to suit everyone so Ballet appreciation Fantasy games Changemakers Weightlifting Ceremonial drill choose something you Yoga Fishing/flyfishing Drug and Peer Education are really interested in. Circus skills Flying Home accident Conjuring and magic Extreme sports: Gliding prevention Individual sports: Dance appreciation Historical period Personal safety Caving and potholing Majorettes Archery Climbing re-enacting Road safety Athletics Puppetry Karting Mountain biking Theatre appreciation Biathlon/Triathlon/ Parachuting/sky diving Kite contruction & flying Working with the Pentathlon Marksmanship environment or Skateboarding Science & technology Boxing Snow sports (Skiing, Model construction & animals: Information technology Carpet snowboarding) racing Animal Welfare Young engineers Croquet Motor sports Environment Cross country running Power boating Martial arts: Care of animals Cycling Judo Sports appreciation Helping a charity Fencing Agriculture (Keeping Sports officiating or community Martial Arts Flat Green Self-defence livestock) Table games organisation: Golf Aquarium keeping War games BCU Lifeguards Horse riding Team sports: Beekeeping Fundraising Orienteering Budgerigars & canaries Life skills Faith communities Petanque Dog training & handling Cookery Mountain Rescue Running Horses: handling & care Digital Lifestyle Religious Education Walking Insects Driving: car maintenance Religious Education - Keeping of pets Driving: car road skills Jewish Water sports: Pigeon breeding & racing Driving: motorcycle SOS Kit Aid Carriage Driving Canoeing Reptiles maintenance Surf Lifesaving Diving Driving: motorcycle road Dragon Boat Racing Music skills Coaching, teaching Fives Rowing and sculling Church Bellringing Life skills and leadership: Football Sailing Disc jockey Money management Air Training Corps Sub aqua (SCUBA diving Jazz - playing a musical Navigation Army Cadet Force and snorkelling) instrument Young Enterprise Casualty simulation Brass rubbing leader each day. differences along their are loads of exciting Committee skills Cake decoration --Studying insect life on route, trying to explain possibilities and Cyclist training Camping gear making the . why this may be. opportunities, so Democracy in action Candlemaking --Planning a route around choose something Event planning Canoe building three of the places that By wheelchair which you will find First Aid Malta Canvas work inspired Wordsworth’s --Following a disused really fulfilling. First Aid St Andrews Carnival/Festival float poems in the Lake railway track noting the First Aid St Johns construction District. current use of previous Service to others Learning about Civil Aid Ceramics --Considering the impact railway buildings. --Assisting at a summer Learning about Clay modelling of tourism on the flora --Preparing a users’ camp for Brownies. Lifesaving Cookery and fauna of the French guide of a country park --Helping out on a Learning about the Corn dollies and straw Alps. or National Trust estate, pilgrimage to . Ambulance service work --Creating a photo guide explaining how it can --Aiding deafblind young Learning about the Creative embroidery to the Countryside b e u s e d , e . g . fi s h i n g , people and adults to Coastguard Crocheting Code round the Mourne picnicking, enjoy a holiday. Learning about the Cross stitch Mountains. conservation. --Rebuilding a school Emergency services DIY --Planning and doing a roof in Lesotho. Learning about the Fire Dough craft By bicycle challenging route in the --Being an assistant to service Drawing --Investigating features Peak District, making a support an eco-friendly Learning about the Dressmaking of the Thames using video diary. waste project at an Police service Egg decorating Thames cycle path. --Producing an illustrated outdoor education Learning about the RNLI Enamelling --Using the cycle system guide to a stretch of centre. (Lifeboats) Fabric printing in the Netherlands to canal. Research the Library & information Floral decoration undertake a research history and then travel Environment and skills French polishing project on the along the tow path conservation Public speaking & Furniture restoration provisions and quality of using the expedition --Attending a conference debating Glass painting cycle paths compared to gather photographs on climate change as a Skills for Employment Glass work to Britain. and sketches to youth representative for Interior design --Following part of illustrate the guide. your local authority. Learning & collecting Jewellery the Gerald of Wales --Planning a route in --Studying coral Aeronautics Knitting route of 1188 through Cropton Forest to take bleaching in Australia. Aircraft recognition Lace making Pembrokeshire. a series of landscape --Joining a tree planting Archaeology Leatherwork photographs to use in a project with The Astronautics Lettering & calligraphy By boat calendar. Woodland Trust. Astronomy Marquetry --Exploring the Norfolk --Monitoring the bat Bird watching Model construction Broads using sailing On horseback population in the New Coastal navigation Mosaic dinghies. --Planning an expedition Forest. Collections, studies & Painting & Design --Planning a cross on horseback in the --Helping the surveys Papercraft channel journey in a countryside including preservation team of a Costume study Patchwork yacht. identifying suitable narrow gauge railway in Criminology Pewter working --Rowing along the farm camp sites and mid Wales. Fashion Photography Danube in Germany bridleways. Forces insignia Pottery booking camp sites --Planning an expedition Learning Gemstones Quilting in advance. with sea views in --Undertaking a cookery Genealogy Rope work --On expedition, using Devon, taking photos course in . Heraldry Rug making simple mapping along the way so that --Doing a photography History of art Soft furnishing techniques to produce you can paint a picture course run by a Military history Soft toy making a map of an estuary & of your favourite scene university and exhibiting Reading Tatting compare it with a real when you return. your work. Religious studies Taxidermy map when you return. --Exploring accessibility --Learning to snowboard Ship recognition Textiles --Planning a Bronze and bridle paths in the on an intensive course Stamp collecting Weaving & spinning sailing expedition on Brecon Beacons. in Scotland. Weather/meteorology Wine making Lake Ullswater in the --Going on an expedition --Improving your Spanish Zoology Woodwork Lake District. through woodland, language skills on a noting the different course in Madrid. Media & By canoe or kayak types and ages of trees --Learning to write and communication Expedition --Recording the wildlife you see. produce music and found on the Strangford --Going on a horseriding putting on a show for Amateur radio section Lough canoe trail. expedition and writing locals. Communicating with --Taking a series of Going on an a poem on your return people who have a photos to come up with Activity based expedition gives you to describe your hearing impairment a guide to a section of --Taking part in a week- the chance to have an experiences. Communicating with London canal systems. long discovery of stage adventure, work as a people who are visually --Making a study of the combat in Wales. team, and act on your impaired locks and lochs on the --Joining an ACF activity own initiative. The Residential Film and video making Caledonian Canal. week with members of expedition can be as Journalism --Carrying out a different detachments. far away or as close to section Languages wilderness trip in --Stewarding at a music home as you want it Going on a residential Newsletter & magazine Canada utilising the festival. to be, and there are gives you the chance production canoe trails used by the --Taking part in a hundreds of ways you to learn how to work Signalling original settlers. multi-faith residential, can go about it. with people from Writing --Choosing several studying different different backgrounds points along a river religions. By foot and build confidence Creative arts and measure speed of --Joining an historical --Exploring teamwork by living in new Basket making flow, width and depth re-enactment of the nominating a different environments. There Boat work and comparing the Battle of Bosworth.