Doing your DofE—Activity Choices

HELP !  Can’t decide what to do?   Need some help or advice?  —  speak to your Explorer Scout Leader or Robert McPhee  (District DofE Adviser and Co-ordinator)                                            email:    DofE@QuoVadis-ESU.org.uk

You can also find out more information

www.DofE.org              

Chelmsfordscouts.org.uk/DofE on the Scout District web site

Volunteering

The very nature of volunteering your choice should be with a charitable organisation (not a mainstream employer). Don’t forget that if you choose to help in a younger Scout section you will need to complete at least one module of the Young Leader training scheme

 

Skill        Choose a Skill activity, perhaps something you already do as a hobby?  There are lots of ideas to choose from with just a few examples here…..

Physical          Choose a current interest or perhaps take up something new? Here are a few examples, more on the full list or you might find something not listed—just ask.

Getting Started …………………………...

Programme Planners are available in eDofE (in the Resource Zone) for you to print out.  They’ll help you work out what you want to do, how and where you can do it and set your goals.  Decide who will be your section  assessors (they cannot be a member of your family) and agree your programme and aims with them. Once you are happy, set your timescales and complete the programme aims and goals in eDofE.

Your Leader (or District DofE adviser) must approve that your choices are in the right section and that you’ve set yourself enough of a challenge. Your Leader will check that your Assessor

Bronze timescales:

· Volunteering section: 3 months

· Physical section: 3 months

· Skills section: 3 months

· Expedition section: 2 days/1 night

· You also have to do 3 more months in one of the Volunteering, Physical or Skills sections.

Silver timescales:

· Volunteering section: 6 months

· Physical and Skills sections: One section for 6 months and the other section for 3 months

· Expedition section: 3 days/2 nights                  If you didn't do Bronze, you must undertake a further 6 months in either the Volunteering or the longer of the Physical or Skills sections.

is suitable for your chosen activity.  Give your Assessor one of the Assessor Guidance Notes cards in the Welcome Pack when you start each activity.

Activities need to be completed in your own free time  (not in school/college lesson time)

Full versions of the activities can be found in the Resource Zone (under Resources in eDofE) or here https://www.dofe.org/resource-zone/co-ordinators-leaders-and-volunteers/

The Resource Zone is updated regularly, so please use it to ensure you always have the most up-to-date information.

You will find activity logs and a full list of suggested activities under each section.

Chelmsford Scouts DofE Activity Feb2018,  updated Jan’19  v1.5