Silver Award

In year 10 Silver participants complete 6-12 months of their individual volunteering, skills and physical sections showing a sustained and long-term commitment to helping others and trying something new. This experience and the Award more generally will help them massively as they move into further study and hopefully they will complete their Gold Award in the future.

On their three day expeditions to Alfriston on the South Downs groups are required to demonstrate significant perseverance and a positive attitude towards failure.

It will usually take participants at least 6 months to complete the Silver programme.

– Volunteering section: 6 months

– Physical section: 3 or 6 months

– Skills section: 3 or 6 months

– Expedition section: 3 days/2 nights

Participants also have to spend an extra 3 months on one of the longer sections if they have not achieved the Bronze Award.

Choose your activities

There are a wide range of different activities that you can complete for each of the volunteering, physical and skills sections of your award. Participants select and record their own individual activities for each of these sections so they are able to do something which is relevant to and interests them. However, if you want to do an activity with friends then that is perfectly fine.

Many participants find that they are already doing activities which fit into one or more of the sections. If you completed the Bronze Award then you can continue with an activity for a section or try out a new activity.

Watch this video to get an idea of some of the activities that you could focus on for your DofE sections or explore the DofE activities ideas suggestions on their website.