Gold

Gold Timescale –

– Volunteering section: 12 months

– Physical and Skills sections: One section for 12 months and the other section for 6 months

– Expedition section: 4 days/3 nights

– Residential section: Undertake a shared activity in a residential setting away from home for 5 days and 4 nights.

For Gold, you’ll need to do your programme for at least 12 months if you’ve achieved your Silver Award, or 18 months if you’ve started at Gold level without doing your Silver – even if you’ve done Bronze. The big difference at Gold is you’ll also do a Residential section – staying away from home for five days and four nights doing a shared activity with people you don’t know. If you didn’t do Silver, you must undertake a further 6 months in either the Volunteering or the longer of the Physical or Skills sections.

Walks and Expeditions – 

Gold Training Weekend – Brecon Beacons (3 days/2 nights)

Gold Practice Expedition – Brecon Beacons (3 days/2 nights)

Gold Finale Expedition – Snowdonia National Park (4 days/3 nights)

The Gryphon School DofE Kit ListDownload

Help Getting Started – The link below will allow you to see all the DofE section idea’s you can choose from.

DofE Programme IdeasDownload

Choosing Assessors – Once you have picked your section idea’s you will need an assessor.

An Assessor must be over the age of 18 and INDEPENDENT. Therefore cannot be a family member. Their role is to check your progress using your evidence and agrees the completion of the section being over seen.

Who can be an Assessor?

An Assessor can be anyone who is interested in helping you to achieve, has some knowledge of the activity you are doing and can be available over the time you’re doing it. They will produce or sign off the relevant Assessor’s report for that section, which is uploaded onto the DofE website – https://www.dofe.org/assessor/

Uploading Evidence – When a section is approved you can now start tracking your progression using the form 3 below.

Form 3 - Monthly Activity TrackerDownload