Residential

GRP - a Gold Award includes a challenging Gold Residential Project.

It is a chance to broaden your horizons - a purposeful live in experience with people who are not your usual companions, working towards a common goal.

A reminder to check that your project meets the criteria including being away from home for 5 (full consecutive) days and 4 nights.

In recent years there has been a tightening on the key requirements of this Section for Participants to “be in the company of others who are, in the majority, not their usual companions.”

So any Barker activities including tours need to proceed very carefully in this regard. Visit C10 for more help.

Please check the suitability of your Residential Project with your Award Leader before ORB listing or booking the activity.

Check all the details at dukeofed.com.au

Plenty of good ideas including...

Volunteer at a sport and rec camp (link)

During your HSC year consider a bit of extra study (link)

Local leadership camp (link)

plenty of outdoor options with providers like here (link) and (link) here.

• Camp Kedron – Life Exchange camps https://campkedron.com/ Email the coordinator

• Crusader HSC Study Camps http://www.crusaders.edu.au/summit-educational-camps/camps/studyskills-camps/ (Galston Gorge or Lake Macquarie)

• The Outdoor Education Group – environmental project and adventure activities https://www.outdooreducation.net.au/gold-residential-project.html

• Red Earth Connections, https://www.redearth.edu.au/ Connecting people with remote Indigenous Australia.

• Youth Advance National Park Residential http://www.youthadvance.com.au/residential-projects/

• Outward Bound School Holiday Programs – Tharwa ACT https://www.outdooredsydney.com.au/bookings/duke-of-ed-residential-project/

• Assistant leader at a Department of Sport – kids camps http://www.dsr.nsw.gov.au/kidscamps/ e.g Berry, Milson Island

• Wildmob Wilderness Conservation Camps https://wildmob.org/conservation-programs/

• Edmund Rice Camps http://www.ercampsnsw.org/

• Australian Walking Company, the Great Ocean Walk to the Twelve Apostles (Victoria) https://www.auswalkingco.com.au/twelve-apostles-lodge-walk/

• Music camps – non-school based, without usual “school companions”

• Assistant leader at St Vincent de Paul kids camp

• Language learning tours / cultural immersion in another country

• Science / Engineering Camps – UNSW, ANU (Canberra)

• Youth Parliament

• Young Endeavours Leadership Camp

• Yoga Enrichment Camp

• Overseas community development or conservation projects

• Volunteer at YMCA youth and children’s camp leader at Camp Yarramundi or the Sydney Olympic Park Armory / other

• Volunteer for an organisation or church group who work with homeless or refugee communities

• National Parks and Wildlife Services – voluntary work with Rangers in the field improving hiking tracks

• Assist at Cancer Council camps

• Assistant leader at Teen Ranch camp

• Assistant leader at Riding for the Disabled camps

• Off road driving and tag along tour

Please check the suitability of your Residential Project with your Award Leader before ORB listing or booking the activity.

Residential Categories

Personal training courses

– Residential language courses

– Leadership training

– Skills development (e.g. music, art, craft)

– HSC Study Camp

– Mindfulness / Yoga retreat

– Youth camps

– Youth parliament

Environment and conservation projects

– Environmental clean-up

– Volunteer work with national parks

– Research on habitats and ecosystems

– Restoration of buildings

Service to other people and communities

– Provision of facilities

– Construction projects

– Assisting as a leader at a camp for young people

– Working with a local or an overseas aid charity

– Working in a care home or hospital

Activity based

– Outdoor adventure courses

– Sports coaching course

– Sport skills development

– Crew member on board a Tall Ship

Please check the suitability of your Residential Project with your Award Leader before ORB listing or booking the activity.