Key Information for Bronze and Silver 2025/26
Duke of Edinburgh Award Registration:
BRONZE: You can sign up here.
SILVER: You can sign up here.
DATES FOR BRONZE:
Parental drop-off for all expeditions
Training Day: Saturday 7 March 2026, 9am – 3pm in school
Practice Expedition: 11-12 April 2026
Start location: Nowton Park IP29 5LP
Finish location: Hartest Village Green IP29 4DH
Qualifying Expedition: 13-14 June 2026
Start location: Great Hockham Picnic Site IP24 1PA
Finish location: Spruce Covert Car Park IP27 0SS
DATES FOR SILVER:
Training Day: Saturday 28 March 2026, 9am-3pm in school
Practice Expedition: Parental drop-off from the start and finish locations.
10am Friday 22 May – 3pm Sunday 24 May 2026
Start location: Riverside Car Park IP12 2PA
Finish location: Framlingham Castle IP13 9BQ
Qualifying Expedition: drop-off at school. Travel by coach to and from location
Coach leaving school at 5.45am on Friday 3 July, returning at 7pm on Sunday 5 July 2026
10am Friday 3 July – 3pm Sunday 5 July 2026
Start location: Hope Valley Car Park S33 6ZG
Finish location: Hathersage Station S32 1DT
PAYMENT
Bronze: Non-refundable deposit of £43.00 to King Edward School via ParentPay
Fee of £205.00 will be invoiced by BXM directly to parents.
Silver: Non-refundable deposit of £50.00 to King Edward School via Parent Pay
The remaining balance of £344.00 can be paid in instalments up to 13 March 2026
Funding
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award offers the Resilience Fund designed to offer young people support to access the award. Details of the Resilience Fund can be found here.
BXM Outdoors
We have a long-standing relationship with BXM Outdoors who have a team of qualified outdoors instructors who lead our expeditions.
Evidencing activity
While participating in their activity evidence is required to show participation. This can be done by keeping a diary of what you’ve been doing, taking photos and uploading them on the DofE app, and then the main way, is by keeping an activity log. The activity log is an essential way of demonstrating participation. These can be found here:
Submitting an assessor’s report
An assessor’s report is required for the volunteering, physical and skills components when a young person has completed their required length of activity. This can be done in a few different ways. See here:
Different ways to submit an Assessor’s Report – DofE (edofe.org)
Looking for inspiration for activity ideas?
If you are not sure what you can do for your volunteering, physical or skills sections, try here on the DofE website!
