diamonds are forever
ast September we were very pleased to be able to announce a new £3 million investment to support more young people accessing and doing their DofE. Currently almost 50,000 disadvantaged young people start their DofE each year – our ambition is to increase this to 70,000 by 2021.
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The £3 million is made up of £1.5 million raised by over 15,000 supporters doing their Diamond Challenge in the DofE’s Diamond Anniversary year (2016); £1 million from the #iwill fund for England and additional DofE donations to double Diamond fundraising in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The #iwill fund is made possible thanks to a £40 million joint investment from The National Lottery and Department of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. The DofE is acting as match funders and is awarding grants on behalf of the fund – a UK-wide campaign which aims to get six out of ten young people involved in social action by 2020.
Practical support
The investment from the #iwill fund will provide training for new organisations to run the DofE; equipment and transport for local groups; training for DofE Leaders and gifted participation places. From autumn 2017 the DofE has been working with established DofE centres in schools, clubs and other organisations across the UK to ensure the funding supports more disadvantaged young people in their DofE journey over the next four years and in the longer term.
Gemma Bull, Big Lottery Fund Portfolio Development Director, said: “This new partnership with the DofE, as part of the #iwill fund, provides an exciting opportunity to support young people to develop their skills and
6 Issue 29: SPRING 2018 DofE Magazine
Ian Newbery gives an update on the exciting DofE Diamond fund, as announced in our previous edition...
confidence. Working with partners and their networks we can reach more young people, enabling them to take the lead in creating new social action opportunities that benefit themselves and their local communities.”
What’s involved
The DofE is making grants to groups, Leaders and to individual young people to enable them to take part in a DofE programme through:
• Recruiting and supporting new DofE groups in defined areas of disadvantage;
• Supporting existing DofE groups in defined areas of disadvantage;
• Supporting existing DofE groups to target disadvantaged young people;
• Providing bursaries to individual young people (or groups of young people) to enable them to take part in the DofE;
• Recruiting and training adult volunteers in defined areas of disadvantage;
• Recruiting and training young ambassadors and volunteers in defined areas of disadvantage.
Whilst we will consider grants to cover the costs of licence fees, participation places, expedition costs, expedition equipment and adult training, we are keen to ensure that the legacy of the Diamond Fund is an increase in opportunities for many more participants in the future.
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