The Duke of Edinburgh Award is committed to providing for 14-25 year olds an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding programme of personal development. They can take part through schools, colleges, youth clubs, voluntary organisations, pupil referral units, young offenders institutions and businesses, to name but a few. It helps instill citizenship qualities within young people such as self-belief, perseverance and leadership skills.
Over 160,000 young people take up the challenge of the DofE every year with around 275,000 participating at any one time. Since it began in 1956, over 3 million young people have entered the Programme and almost 2 million Awards achieved.
The DofE is a registered charity and as such relies on the generous support of volunteers, local authorities, businesses, individuals and trustees to meet its commitment to help all young people realise their full potential.
For more information on the Award, please visit http://www.dofe.org/
