The Duke of Edinburgh Award

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) is an awards programme which gives you the chance to make friends, have fun and build confidence in an empowering, exciting and non-competitive learning environment.

By taking part, you’ll build on a huge range of practical and character skills – like resilience, problem-solving, team-working and drive – and come out the other side with a stronger sense of self (something really brilliant to put on your CV), or talk about in their uni and job applications).

There are four sections to complete at the Bronze and Silver levels and five at Gold.

They involve helping the community/environment, becoming fitter, developing new skills, planning, training for and completing an expedition and, for Gold only, working with a team on a residential activity.

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The DofE admin is initially set up by South Yorkshire Scouts (who the payment is made to).

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BRONZE

What you’ll need to do:
  1. Be aged 14+
  2. Complete a volunteering section for 3 months
  3. Complete a skills section for 3 months
  4. Complete a physical section for 3 months
  5. Complete a 1 night/2 day expedition

You also have to spend an extra three months on one of the Volunteering, Physical or Skills sections.

SILVER

What you’ll need to do:
  1. Be aged 15+
  2. Complete a volunteering section for 6 months
  3. Complete a skills section for 6 months
  4. Complete a physical section for 6 months
  5. Complete a 2 night/3 day expedition

If you didn’t do Bronze, you must undertake a further 6 months in one of the sections

GOLD

What you’ll need to do:
  1. Be aged 16+
  2. Complete a volunteering section for 12 months
  3. Complete a skills section for 6/12 months*
  4. Complete a physical section for 6/12 months*
  5. Complete a 3 night/4 day expedition
  6. Complete a Residential shared activity in a residential setting away from home for 5 days and 4 nights.

If you didn’t do Silver, you must undertake a further 6 months in either the Volunteering or the longer of the Physical or Skills sections.

*Physical and Skills sections: One section for 12 months and the other section for 6 months, so one of these sections could be 18-months long.

DofE App

If you’re doing your DofE the official smartphone app is for you. You can use the DofE app to plan activities, get approval from Leaders, record evidence, submit programmes for completion and more.

Plus, you can use it to sync important dates to your phone calendar and add your personalised DofE Card to your digital wallet, so you can make the most of your exclusive discounts.

Simply go to your mobile app store, search ‘DofE’, download for free, and use your eDofE details to log in — and you’re ready to go.

eDofE

eDofE is a digital system where you’ll record your DofE programme and activities online, and get each section approved by your DofE Leader.

Once you enrol, you’ll be sent an email (from South Yorkshire Scouts) with your sign-in details. Then you’re ready to activate your account and start choosing your activities and setting objectives.

On eDofE you can easily select what you want to do for each section, and your DofE Leader must approve your choices and Assessor. You can check your progress throughout your programme and submit evidence in a variety of formats.

You can message your DofE Leader and other participants in your group from within eDofE. You can also download your DofE Voucher from eDofE, giving you savings of at least 10% at our recommended retailers.