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Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
The Regional Advisers (DofE) are John Buchanan and Neil Grant. They will be very happy to assist anyone (Leader, Explorer, Network or parent) with matters concerning DofE and how DofE fits in with other awards.
For information about DofE, see Top Awards for Explorers and Network.
DofE Advisers
DofE News
SEEE DofE Events – Borders
D of E has normally been completed in the Scottish Borders District through the schools but a couple of years ago we decided to get some leaders though their expedition assessors’ course and start running our own expeditions and awards. Then Covid happened! Our...
More on “DofE canoe expedition training…”
As highlighted in last month’s newsletter, the Coronavirus lockdown hasn’t stopped a group of 16 Explorers from Craigalmond, Braid, Pentland and West Lothian Districts starting the training for their Duke of Edinburgh Award (DofE) expeditions by canoe…online. It came...
A proper expedition – not just tourists!
Two groups of Explorers formed from Braid and Craigalmond carried out an excellent DofE Gold expedition over four days at the end of August, walking from Corrour Station and completing their circular route at Rannoch. One candidate unfortunately had to drop out on...
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award leaders meet Earl of Forfar
The Earl of Forfar (who is better known as Prince Edward), met a group of our leaders at a reception in the City Chambers on 4 July for DofE leaders from across Edinburgh and the Lothians. Simon Cocker of Meadows ESU, Sam Dickinson of Borestane ESU and Janet...
Hillwalking training update
There has been an excellent response to last month's announcement of two complementary initiatives to provide training for Hillwalking permits (see original article). David Newton David, the DESC for Craigalmond, is going ahead with organising a Regional residential...
Hillwalking and climbing information
The Region ran a taster training session on 30 April. Eight leaders from across the Region spent an evening with Mountaineering Instructors Davy Virdee and Martin Holland looking at the skills needed to move towards gaining a hillwalking permit. There’s lots of demand...
Expedition training
Help with planning and training for all types of expedition (DofE, Chief Scout's Award, Queen's Scout Award) is available from the DofE site using the links below. Expedition training DofE Expedition Section - main page Expedition downloads DofE requirements DofE...