Duke of Edinburgh Award

Our Brigaders are supported to work towards their Duke of Edinburgh Awards at Girls' Brigade. The award is divided in to 4 sections; Skills, Volunteering, Expedition and Physical and fits in well with the Brigader Brooch award and Young Leadership programme. 

Older Brigaders can complete the Young Leadership programme towards the Volunteering Section by attending the annual district training day and developing thier skills by helping with the younger girls at GB regularly. 

Bronze 2023/2024:

5 Brigaders completed their Bronze award in 2024 were presented with their awards at our celebration evening in July. 

Bronze group of 2023 completed a 12 week St Johns First Aid course on line with practical sessions led by qualified first aiders for their skills session - additonal sessions helped them prepare these skills for their Expedition.

They completed their expeditions across the New Forest in October 23,

Young leader training, first aid training and personal fitness over two years, alongside studying for GCSE's.

Silver 2022: Having completed Bronze, 2 of our young leaders  commened their  Silver award in 2022 and hope to finish over the summer. 

Bronze Group 2019/2020

Alice, Beth, Cerys, Lucy, Iris, Molly, completed  their Bronze awards; Young leaders training for their volunteering section, first aid for their skills, sports for their physcial and completed both their practice and qualifing expeditons in the new forest tracing a history of the New Forest during WW1 & WW2 prior to lockdown

Bronze Group 2018 

2 Brigaders, Izzie and Jodie completed their Bronze level  with another two, Caitlyn and Rebecca completing their Service and Expedition Sections. 

Silver Group 2015

5 young women compleleted their 2 night 3 day Qualifying expedition in the New Forest for the Silver level in June 2015. They completed the project on time and gained loads of experiance in "Geocaching"- a game of global online hide and seek.

Well done Danielle, Anna, Hannah, Ruth and Isobel.

Isobel, Danielle and Anna completed their DofE award and were presented with the awards and certificates .

Bronze Group 2014:

Well done to the Bronze 2014 team on completing their Bronze Expedition in October 2013. Tracing evidence of the part the New forest played in the world wars, the girls visted Stoney Cross areodrome, the Canadian war memorial, the WWII display and the New forst visitors centre, the Lyndhurst War memorial, found areas of the forest still containing unexploded munitions from WW1 and discovered the part the Ashurst Hospital played in WW2. A great expedition. Thanks to the leaders who made this possible.

The girls completed their GB Leadership training at Foundation Level as part of their Volunteering section  - including planning a weekend sleepover and attending the disitrct training day as well as helping on a company evening. 

For the physical section the group learned to play badminton, understanding the rules and scroding as well as improving their techniques. They have now completed all the sections but just need to finish the online recording of the their achievements to gain their awards.

Bronze Expedition Practice walks:

Well done to Charlotte, Emily, Katie and Megan who braved the hottest day of the year so far to practice their expedition skills including map reading, navigation and learning how to use a compass. Great work all of you. Special thanks to Mr Woodbury for planning and leading the training session.