NEWS OF DofE ACTIVITIES AROUND THE UK The DofE in


Pictured below are Silver participants from Nairn Academy who completed the first Scottish qualifying paddleboard expedition last year.


CROWD-PULLER CASEY LEST WE FORGET


Holmfirth Open Award Centre participant DJ Casey Dude (left) started his DJing in 2010 and then continued to use DJing as his Skill section activity for his DofE programme, assisted by Ben Walker. Casey, who has Down’s syndrome and autism, has continued his love of DJing in his local pub and now has become the star in a Mencap campaign. mencap.org.uk/blog/here-i-am-casey


TOP JACK


Acklam Grange School rose to the DofE Diamond Challenge by making 1,000 clay poppies to commemorate their town’s war dead from 1915, as the beginning of its ‘AGS Remembers’ project. All staff and students rose to the challenge and successfully made all the clay poppies in time for a special Remembrance Day service.


Young people from across the North of England challenged themselves to choose a product or service to export to a country that delivers the DofE in a competition launched in partnership with ICC Solutions. At the Exporting Excellence Northern Final, six schools pitched their ideas, using their new-found knowledge of exporting, to a panel of judges. Congratulations to The Laurence Jackson School from Guisborough which won the competition with an idea to export lifesaving equipment to Uganda.


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Victoria Education Centre in Poole is a school for physically disabled young people. Many students have life limiting conditions such as Duchene Muscular Dystrophy and most are wheelchair users. Students are given the opportunity to do their DofE and have had great successes over the past 20 years but this year have their first Gold cohort. For their residential, they plan to go to NASA, in Florida, hosted by the International Space Educational Trust. If you’d like to help them get there, visit tinyurl.com/z2r4avj.


Jack Hassan MBE was presented with a DofE long service award recently, to mark over 55 years volunteering with the DofE. Starting in 1962, Jack has been an Assessor, Leader and mentor to thousands of young people in North Yorkshire, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough.


THE SKY’S THE LIMIT!


Issue 27: SUMMER 2017


DofE Magazine


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