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WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT? |
| The Award is a programme
of activities for you to do in your spare time. There are three Awards
to try for: Bronze, Silver, and Gold.
You simply have to choose
one activity under each of these headings, and do it for a set length
of time:
- Volunteering: Be a
local hero - help the community, the environment or even train to
save a life...
- Skills: Do something
different, whether you fancy yourself as a fine artist or a trapeze
artist, we’ve got something that will suit you...
- Physical Recreation:
Could you be the next Beckham? Or Anna Kournikova? Virtually any
sport, dance or fitness activity can count...
- Expedition: Go on
an expedition and find yourself. Train, plan and complete an adventurous
journey in the countryside on foot, horseback, boat or cycle...
- Residential Project:
(this is for Gold Award Participants only)
Work as a team on a conservation, service or activity-based project
for five days.
For
a full list of the programmes available under each section click on
the Duke of Edinburgh website link at the bottom of this page.
(It's important to remember
that things you're already involved in, in your spare time, can count
towards your Duke of Edinburgh Award, e.g. Girls' Brigade, sports clubs
or teams, hobby and interest clubs, music lessons or bands, so you don't
have to ditch all your current interests and take up new ones you can
just set yourself goals to extend and challenge you in your current
interests. ... So if you already help out with your GB Explorer section,
you're in the school hockey team, and you play an instrument or do crafts
... be sure to register all those activities with your D of E advisor
a.s.a.p. and start counting them towards your Award, you'll be half
way there before you know it!) |
| WHO
CAN TAKE PART? |
The Award is targeted at everyone
in the 14
- 25
age group.
Which level of
the award you tackle first depends on your age, if you are in your teens
just start with Bronze and work your way up, if you're older you may
prefer to enter the Award at Direct Silver or even Direct Gold, (Direct
Silver is more involved than Silver on completion of the Bronze Award
and likewise with Direct Gold), see the entry requirements & timescales
below for more details: |
| BRONZE
AWARD |
| Minimum
age you can start the Bronze Award: |
Your 14th Birthday
(However if you have
a late birthday and others in your school year are 14 already,
the GB as an operating authority allows you to
begin just below this age, so you can do your Award with your
peers. ) |
| Minimum
time to complete the Bronze Award: |
6 months |
| Minimum
age to complete the Bronze Award: |
14½
years |
| Maximum
age to complete the Bronze Award: |
24 years
+ 364 days! (you get an extra day if its a
leap year!) All Awards
must be completed before your 25th birthday, so don't take too
long or you won't have time to finish the Silver and Gold! |
| TIMESCALE
FOR THE BRONZE SECTION OF THE AWARD |
| VOLUNTEERING |
SKILLS |
PHYSICAL
RECREATION |
EXPEDITIONS |
| 3 months |
3 months |
3 months |
Plan, prepare
for and undertake a 2 day, 1 night venture |
ALL
PARTICIPANTS must undertake a further 3 months in either
Service, Skills or Physical Recreation Section. |
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| SILVER
AWARD |
| Minimum
age you can start the Silver Award: |
Your 15th Birthday
(However if you have
completed the Bronze Award, the GB as an operating
authority allows you to begin just below this age, so you can
continue without a long gap. ) |
| Minimum
time to complete the Silver Award: |
6 months if you have
completed the Bronze Award
12 months for Direct Silver |
| Minimum
age to complete the Silver Award: |
15½
years if you have completed the Bronze Award
16 years for Direct Silver |
| Maximum
age to complete the Silver Award: |
24 years
+ 364 days! (you get an extra day if its a
leap year!) All Awards
must be completed before your 25th birthday, so don't take too
long or you won't have time to finish the Gold! |
| TIMESCALE
FOR THE SILVER SECTION OF THE AWARD |
| VOLUNTEERING |
SKILLS |
PHYSICAL
RECREATION |
EXPEDITIONS |
6 months |
One
Section for 6 months and the other section for 3 months |
Plan, prepare for
and undertake a 3 day, 2 night venture |
DIRECT
ENTRANTS must undertake a further 6 months in either
the Service or the longer of the Skills or Physical Recreation
Sections. |
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| GOLD
AWARD |
| Minimum
age you can start the Gold Award: |
Your 16th Birthday -
no activities may be
counted for this Award before this age. |
| Maximum
age you can start the Gold Award: |
Your 23rd Birthday -
to ensure you have time to complete the Award before your 25th
Birthday. |
| Minimum
time to complete the Gold Award: |
12 months if you have
completed the Silver Award
18 months for Direct Gold |
| Minimum
age to complete the Gold Award: |
17 years if you have
completed the Silver Award
17½ years for
Direct Gold |
| Maximum
age to complete the Gold Award: |
24 years + 364 days!
(you get an extra day if its a leap year!)
All awards must be completed
before your 25th birthday, so don't take too long! |
Extensions
are only considered where illness, accident or unavoidable circumstances
makes this impossible, in which case requests are referred by
the Operating Authority (GB HQ) to the National Award Office
for consideration.
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| TIMESCALE
FOR THE GOLD SECTION OF THE AWARD |
| VOLUNTEERING |
SKILLS |
PHYSICAL
RECREATION |
EXPEDITIONS |
RESIDENTIAL |
12 months |
One
Section for 12 months and the other section for 6 months |
Plan, prepare for
and undertake a 4 day, 3 night venture |
Undertake a shared
activity in a residential setting away from home for 5 days and
4 nights |
DIRECT
ENTRANTS must undertake a further 6 months in either
the Service or the longer of the Skills or Physical Recreation
Sections. |
| GB
DUKE OF EDINBURGH OPEN GOLD EXPEDITION 2009 - This
has primarily been set up to help those of you in Companies
who do not have a viable group to do a Gold Expedition on your own,
ie less than four. However, if space allows, larger groups are accommodated
- see
D of E Courses for more info. |
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Congratulations
to 1st Law Company who received a grant from South Lanarkshire
Council Renewable Energy Fund to purchase equipment for their
Duke of Edinburgh's Award Expeditions. Everyone looks very happy
with their new equipment ... and they made it into the local
paper too!
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| SOUNDS
GREAT, WHERE DO I SIGN UP & WHEN CAN I START? |
... just
3 easy steps
-
Tell your GB Leader or
Captain you want to do The Duke of Edinburgh Award, and ask them
to get you a Girls' Brigade, Duke
of Edinburgh Award Registration Form (available
from GB HQ and through the Useful
Documents - on the Leader's page on this website) ...
if your Company have never done the D of E Award before, then don't
let your Leaders panic, GB HQ & your Division's D of E Advisor
will keep them straight on all they need to know to help you through.
- Check out the D of E website (link
at the bottom of this page), or ask to see your Company's D of E
Handbook and Programme File, so you can start thinking about which
programmes you'd like to tackle ... See
D of E Leaders' page
for more details
of D of E literature to help you and your Leaders through the Award.
- Complete the Girls'
Brigade, Duke of Edinburgh Award Registration Form
and send it back to GB HQ with the correct fee for your Entrance
pack, which includes your record book. (See D
of E Leaders' page for more details)
- ......... well, what are you waiting
for, choose what you're going to do ... and get
started!
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I'M
TOO OLD FOR THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARD! ... WHAT CAN I DO? |
Lots, life doesn't stop at
25!
You're never too old to
get involved and help girls and young women in Girls' Brigade broaden
their horizons with the Duke of Edinburgh Award ... and all the while
you'll be broadening your own! Check out the D of E Leaders' Page through
the link below to find out all the options open to you. |
