Duke of Edingburgh's
Award Scheme

 

 

 

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I am involved with the DoE award scheme with Schools, Scouts
and Northamptonshire County Council Youth Services.

I am mainly involved with the training of both youngsters and leaders
in all types of mountain activities.
These include practical and theoretical aspects, of successful outdoor activities.
amongst topics covered are technical knowledge and planning
as well as working to increase awareness, enjoyment, and safety.		 rock climbing with DoE bronze participants in the Peak districtpeak-doe-04.jpg (19428 bytes)

 

 

 

 In past years, I have worked with young people doing various sections of the DoE award including :
expedition, Skill, and Physical sections.

These have been at all three levels (on Bronze, Silver and Gold)
Venues used include Long Myndd, The Peak District, Yorkshire Dales, and Glencoe
many of these expeditions have pictures on this site

 

 

Duke of Edinburgh Award
gold
expedition training

group cooking
this Picture was taken of a group From Southfield's School, Kettering during a training expedition to Glencoe during Easter of 1998

five XI form girls attended this training, but the picture does not show
just how cold Easter 1998
was in Glencoe !!!

the group was training for their successful Gold Expedition which was in Kenya
during Summer 1998

more pictures of Southfields school in Glencoe on their expedition

cooking on a Gold practice expedition in Glencoe
the group did one days accompanied training day, followed by two days unaccompanied walks,
and finally a two day expedition

starting in Glen Nevis and
finishing in Kinlochleven

 

 

kinder Scout with a silver DoE group

walking & navigation
pictures of
Southfield's school
on Kinder Scout

silver award
practice expedition
and accompanied navigation training over three days

 Windgather with a bronze DoE group

rock climbing
pictures of
Woolaston School
climbing weekend

bronze award
physical section
rock climbing
two days and three evenings

 

Woolaston School Climbing sessions at Birmingham climbing wall for their silver award

 

Special Needs 2000 - special needs - expedition

expedition training with special needs

 Louisa Smith a Participant on the autumn 1999 BELA course helps an award participant with special needs during a
"skills afternoon" at Grendon Hall.

the afternoon was during early stages of preparation towards
a Special needs expedition to Derbyshire during August 2000

further pictures found at
SPECIAL NEEDS 2000

 

 

Northamptonshire open gold expedition ~ Cairngorms July 2000
As in previous years during the year 2000, I am involved with a Northamptonshire County DoE panel expeditions.

It is proposed hold a Gold expedition to Scotland.   The expedition will be "open Gold"  i.e. open to any registered DoE participant.

The expedition will be in mid July in the Cairngorms area, further details will be online soon.  There will also be a web page or the expedition with pictures of the expedition shortly after returning.

the Cairngorms from Lin of Dee
the Cairngorms from Lin of Dee

 

The DoE has it's own site at
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award official site

 

 

 

The responsibilities of leading young people on expeditions

leading DoE participants in the hills
bronze & silver DoE award

in Northamptonshire (as in other counties)
any leader that take young people into
"open and un-familiar country as part of an expedition or any other training, needs to hold a BELA award

Nigel's   BELA  award page

 gold award

whilst to lead, train, and supervise participants at gold level, expeditions
must be in wild country
and that involves the leader holding a
MLTB certificate


MLTB training course in Longtown
picture taken during my "MLTB" training

 

 

 

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