Bronze timescales:
- Volunteering section: 3 months
- Physical section: 3 months
- Skills section: 3 months
- Expedition section: 2 days/1 night
You also have to do 3 more months in one of the Volunteering, Physical or Skills sections.
Silver timescales:
- Volunteering section: 6 months
- Physical and Skills sections: One section for 6 months and the other section for 3 months
- Expedition section: 3 days/2 nights
If you didn’t do Bronze, you must undertake a further 6 months in either the Volunteering or the longer of the Physical or Skills sections.
Gold timescales:
- Volunteering section: 12 months
- Physical and Skills sections: One section for 12 months and the other section for 6 months
- Expedition section: 4 days/3 nights
- Residential section: Undertake a shared activity in a residential setting away from home for 5 days and 4 nights.
If you didn’t do Silver, you must undertake a further 6 months in either the Volunteering or the longer of the Physical or Skills sections.
https://www.edofe.org/ is the site where students must submit their plans for each section and their assessors reports. There is a guide to using eDofE in the resources section. Students should receive their login details via email to the email address they submitted on their registration form. It may have gone into their junk or spam folder. If you have problems signing in you should read the usernames and passwords guide see below.
The DofE Opportunities Finder is a section of their website designed to help participants find opportunities to complete each section if a student is struggling to find something to do. https://www.dofe.org/opportunity-finder/opportunity-for-dofe-participant/ Further ideas for each section see below.
The DofE website https://www.dofe.org/ has lots more useful resources including a FAQ section see below.
Parents and students might find helpful the documents below (click each one below to download).
Bronze timescales:
- Volunteering section: 3 months
- Physical section: 3 months
- Skills section: 3 months
- Expedition section: 2 days/1 night
You also have to do 3 more months in one of the Volunteering, Physical or Skills sections.
Silver timescales:
- Volunteering section: 6 months
- Physical and Skills sections: One section for 6 months and the other section for 3 months
- Expedition section: 3 days/2 nights
If you didn’t do Bronze, you must undertake a further 6 months in either the Volunteering or the longer of the Physical or Skills sections.
Gold timescales:
- Volunteering section: 12 months
- Physical and Skills sections: One section for 12 months and the other section for 6 months
- Expedition section: 4 days/3 nights
- Residential section: Undertake a shared activity in a residential setting away from home for 5 days and 4 nights.
If you didn’t do Silver, you must undertake a further 6 months in either the Volunteering or the longer of the Physical or Skills sections.
https://www.edofe.org/ is the site where students must submit their plans for each section and their assessors reports. There is a guide to using eDofE in the resources section. Students should receive their login details via email to the email address they submitted on their registration form. It may have gone into their junk or spam folder. If you have problems signing in you should read the usernames and passwords guide see below.
The DofE Opportunities Finder is a section of their website designed to help participants find opportunities to complete each section if a student is struggling to find something to do. https://www.dofe.org/opportunity-finder/opportunity-for-dofe-participant/ Further ideas for each section see below.
The DofE website https://www.dofe.org/ has lots more useful resources including a FAQ section see below.
Parents and students might find helpful the documents below (click each one below to download).
