NEWS OF DofE ACTIVITIES AROUND THE UK The DofE in
Members of the 1st Tewksbury Boys’ Brigade Seniors enjoyed a tough, challenging Gold Award expedition late last summer. Here they are, full of energy by the River Ardeche in the South of France, ready for their adventure.
LEST WE FORGET
DofE participants at St Vincent’s School, a non- maintained school for sensory impaired and other needs young people in Liverpool, have been learning ceramic skills for their programmes. The culmination of their project was to create dozens of poppies – plus this impressive giant ceramic DofE poppy as a gift for HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
BIG IDEA COMES TO LIFE MEET THE GOLDEN GANG
A group of young Leaders spent a motivating few days at the 2017 International Gold Event (IGE), which took place in the Czech Republic last October. The tri-annual event provides leadership training to 90 potential emerging Leaders within The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award community. It also offers attendees an opportunity to discuss the issues and challenges facing young people today and how the Award – which currently runs in over 140 countries and territories around the world, with over 1.3 million participants – may be able to help. The UK delegates are pictured above with Lord Kirkham (Chairman of Trustees for the DofE in the UK) and new Trustee, John Amaechi.
James McClements, DofE Office Manager in our Northern
DofE participants from Southgate School, Almondbury have been working hard to create a giant ‘Towers of Hanoi’ game in its Forest School area for their Volunteering section. They have made and created this by themselves and it is a great team building game that many their pupils can enjoy and benefit from.
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Ireland Office, said: “The IGE was a fantastic event and I think that throughout the week the UK team members all stepped up to the fore in their teams. Three of the projects from the ten teams, worked on throughout the week, were selected by The DofE Czech Republic for immediate implementation.”
Issue 29: SPRING 2018 DofE Magazine
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