DD2 wants to do Duke of Edinburgh bronze and already has a tight schedule. Would you recommend?

One in our household used gymastics training as the physical; gymnastics coaching of the younger club members as the volunteering, and worked on additonal artwork / life drawing in own time as the skill which also has gone into art portfolio...

Looking for inspirational skill suggestions for Silver currently which might also benefit GCSE work for English... sorry to hijack...

There are 4 sections at Bronze level:
Voluteering
Physical (already covered with ballet)
Skills
Expedition
You have to be 14 (or very nearly 14) to start, it takes a minimum of 6 months to complete.
That's the basics. It is quite a commitment, but if your DD is organised it should easily be possible. If she is doing it through her school, they tend to be good at helping the kids & can offer quite alot of support.

dance will count as physical recreation (rule of thumb is if it makes you sweaty it's physical rec; if it doesn't it's skill).

If she's pushed for time, then do the dance for 6 months (as she's doing that anyway), then it's only 3 months each for the others.

Re the weekends - our school also does an expedition training day (used to be a whole weekend but they've cut it down) plus lunchtime mapreading practices. We do Bronze in Y9/10, silver in Y11 and gold in Y12/13.

and is the Bronze Award done in Year 10 and then silver in Year 11? is that how it works?

Depends on your provider. Here is The Award website which gives all the info.

Good luck! My dd1 is on a sports scholarship and does masses of sports every night and at weekends but she is also keen to do DofE bronze - like your dd she is very organised and driven. I love the quote about if you want something doing ask a busy woman!

My secondary school does a lot of DoE work and practically every pupil that does it, gains massively from the experience, so I would definitely say your daughter should do it.
Another point for her to bear in mind is that if she wants to go to uni, then being able to say you have done DoE is an extra tick for the application form!

If your dd is already busy with extra curricular stuff you may find it can count towards her DofE. My ds found his rugby and keyboad lessons fulfilled the physical activity and skill sections. The volunteering was fairly easy to arrange which just left the expedition which was all done through school. The biggest time commitment was setting aside two weekends for the expedition (one practice weekend, one assessed).

I agree she'll be fine. Dancing can be her physical section, sorted with no extra work. Does she volunteer/help out with a younger dance class? That's service sorted. So she only needs to find an hour a week for skill (does she already play a musical instrument? That counts) and a couple of weekends for the expeditions.

Perfectly doable if she is motivated...

If you want something doing, ask a busy woman! If she's the sort that can do a milion things at once then ... she's the sort that can do a million things at once.
What's the worst that could happen? - that she finds that she doesn't have the time so she has to drop it. As long as you haven't spent a fortune on special equipment (which you don't need to) then what has anybody lost.
I suppose the main thing is your provider. Our school does overkill: they are very well pepared but it takes up so much time that it eats into other things (one of the main reasons why DS didn't do it). Other schools do just as well with less time.
Are weekends / holidays precious for dance training, competitions, etc - will she be able to do the expeditions (practice and the real thing).