Working in partnership


every year. Our structure, working with hundreds of partners, allows us to be flexible and effective, delivering value for money with quantifiable outcomes and benefits for all young people. Our partnerships range from local authorities, voluntary organisations and schools, to businesses, individual supporters and activity providers, and each and every one is vital to our Charity’s success.


T Diversity of delivery


Through working with a wide range of delivery partners, we can ensure that DofE opportunities are available to as many young people as possible, in settings that are known to them.


Our ambition: to expand and diversify the delivery partners we work with to extend our reach and increase numbers of young people who can take part.


Over the last year we have signed licences with housing associations, the police, national charities and businesses, all of whom will give more young people the opportunity to achieve an Award.


he Duke of Edinburgh’s Award employs just 100 staff yet we have an incredible reach. We are present in every area of the UK, supporting over 275,000 young people and 50,000 adults


Case study


The British Transport Police and Northern Rail are using The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award to target young people who have been or are at risk of being excluded from school or college. They work with them on schemes such as Station Adoption.


Through this project young people, who would normally vandalise railway stations and station property, come to understand the value of this kind of property and actually adopt a local railway station to look after.


They achieve this in a variety of ways through, for example, their design technology lessons.


Here, they make wooden planters which they take to the station and fill with plants and they use their art and design skills (normally wasted in committing acts of criminal damage) to provide works of art for the stations.


Social housing landlord Gentoo Living Sunderland has signed a licence to offer DofE programmes to young people both in its employment and in the communities it serves, which are some of the most deprived in the UK.


The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award – Annual Review of 2010 9


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