Duke of Edinburgh Award

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Duke of Edinburgh Award

• Bronze

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Why do it?

• Develops leadership skills. Universities and
  employers rate leadership skills very highly.
• Become more independent.
• Gain important life skills such as navigation and
  first aid.
• Improve your ability to work well with others and
  solve problems as a team.
• Its fun (believe it or not).

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Service

• Service at bronze lasts for 3 (or 6) months. At
  least 1 hour a week for 3 (or 6) months and must
  be done in your own free time.
• The purpose of this is for participants to
  volunteer in their local community and to provide
  them with a sense of responsibility in their
  community.
• Examples include working in a charity shop,
  helping with scouts or cubs, or assisting tennis
  coaching.

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Skill

• Skill at bronze lasts for 3 (or 6) months. At
  least 1 hour a week for 3 (or 6) months and must
  be done in your own free time.
• The purpose of this is to develop your skills at
  something which you are already good at and wish
  to improve or to develop a new skill which you
  have never tried before.
• Examples include bell ringing, cacti growing, or
  fishing.

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Physical Activity

• The physical activity at bronze lasts for 3 (or
  6) months. At least 1 hour a week for 3 (or 6)
  months and must be done in your own free time.
• The purpose of this is to increase your general
  fitness which will help you greatly on the walk
  and in later life.
• Examples include tennis, squash, swimming, or
  rugby.

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Walk

• At bronze the walk lasts for 2 days and 1 night
  camping. You will have to do 2 walks a practice
  walk and then the qualifier.
• A bronze the intensity of the walk is not too
  high. However, if you have never done a walk
  like this before you will probably struggle with
  some of the hilly sections.

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Walk

• During the walk you must carry everything you
  will need for the 2 days including food, sleeping
  bag, tent and trangia.
• Litter must not be left behind otherwise you may
  fail and will have to do the walk again.

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Project

• After the walk you will have to do a project on a
  topic based on the area where you walked. The
  assessor must pass your project before you can be
  presented with the award.
• The project will be about environmental impact in
  the area of your walk. It might be about
  deforestation in a certain area, or about glacial
  erosion in a certain area. The project can be
  typed or handwritten its your choice.

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Equipment

• Some of the equipment will be provided by the
  school (e.g. tents, trangias, fuel bottles, storm
  shelters, fist aid kits, maps and compasses),
  however, you will have to buy the rest.
• The essentials are a rucksack (60-70 litres) a
  GOOD pair of boots (WELL BROKEN IN BEFORE THE
  WALK) and walking socks a sleeping bag and
  sleeping mat fuel (pink mentholated spirit)
  cloths food (2 lunches, 1 breakfast, 1 dinner
  and snacks for during the day) and waterproofs.
  A full equipment list will be issued closer to
  the walk.