The Duke of Edinburgh Award Group meets on Thursdays 6-8pm at the Village Centre. The group has gone from strength to strength this year with six students recently receiving their Bronze Awards from the Mayor of Brighton and Hove at the annual D of E Presentation Evening held at Hove Town Hall.

The students involved were: Marwan Awar, Charlie Farrow, Steph Harber, Jason Preston, Luke Vincent and David Wheeler. They all deserve tremendous praise for their effort, commitment and skill in gaining such a prestigious award.

We are also continuing to support a small group of students attempting their Gold Awards. They are close to completing all their challenges and should receive their awards in 2007.

In January we are starting the programme for our new Bronze/Silver groups. Any student in Year 9 or above who is interested in joining is asked to contact Nick Schildkamp, DofE Co-ordinator at the Village Centre (Tel 01273 416838). Or visit our contact page.

There are four sections to the Award and you have to choose and follow an activity, for about 12 weeks , for each section, the sections are: Physical Recreation, Skills, Service in the Community and Expedition or exploration.
You usually start the award at Bronze level and can go on to Silver and finally Gold level.

By attending the DoE you can:

• Get involved in new activities and new challenges.
• Get involved with group or individual projects.. like creating a newsletter or video or planning adventure activities.
• Join in our activities and workshops like sports, music, cooking, photography.
• Learn new skills.
• Take part in a residential activity.
• Help others in your community or help to improve your environment.
• Work towards gaining a nationally recognised certificate

• You may already be doing things which can count towards the Award...like after school clubs or hobbies, playing for a football team or caring for pets…
• You complete the Award at your own pace and we are around to help and encourage you.
• The award shows people that you are the sort of person that can take a challenge and stick with it…it looks great as part of your Record of Achievement/CV .. it opens doors…to new experiences...new friends...fun activities...adventure and challenge.
• The Award is for ALL young people ...whether you are outgoing or shy, love sport or hate sport, go out a lot or stay in a lot...whoever you are there is something in the Award Scheme for you…all you have to do is get in touch…
• For more info contact the Village Centre through our contact page
• See also www.theaward.org for more details

Congratulations!!!