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 The Duke of Edinburgh's Award aims to provide an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding programme of personal development for young people.
Outdoor UK work with schools and youth groups to assist in the training and assessment of their young people participating in the expedition section of the award to ensure they are best placed to enjoy their chosen challenges. All ventures involve self-reliant journeying in the countryside on foot, by bicycle or on water.
Training
The training takes place at a venue close to your school and involves preparing the participants for their up-coming qualifying venture. We cover topics such as navigation, camp craft, cooking and equipment.
Qualifying Venture
Many groups fail to obtain the full benefit from practice journeys, which proves for many, to be the greatest missed opportunity. This is their chance to further develop the skills learnt during training.
All participants are required to undertake at least one practice journey, at each level of the award. This provides a chance for further training to take place and for the instructors to ensure that the group have the necessary skills to manage alone for their assessment.
Our trainers will spend some of the first day with the group to provide last minute skills updates, and from there the group heads out alone. To ensure the groups well being from here, they regularly meet their trainers at pre-arranged checkpoints.
Assessed Venture
We work alongside your students to help chose the most appropriate destinations for their assessed expedition. The award is designed to challenge each individual, and their choice of destination should reflect this. Once a choice is made, we will work alongside you to prepare the groups and where necessary, we can provide assessors and supervisors.
Here are a selection of our outdoor educational programmes:
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