What did your child do for Duke of Edinburgh volunteering please!

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We are stuck!

Park run?

BOth my 2 did parkrun for bronze and silver.

Volunteer at Parkrun?
Or run?

One helped with younger kids football training and the other volunteered at oxfam.

DD helped at Rainbows-Absolutely loved it and carried on for an extra year. Most are desperate for help. A really lovely voluntary thing to do.

She also got loads of babysitting jobs off the back of it

Church youth club and primary school after school activity club.

Coached younger swimmers at swimming club.

Helped at Brownies
Helped coach younger kids football
Worked in a community shop

Young leader for Scout group

Mine is doing national trust (walking distance from our house)

Our local library has DoE volunteers.

Helping at guides and local athletics club.

Dug over and replanted the elderly neighbours garden.

Number one child worked in a charity shop
Second child worked in a hospital cafe and then volunteered at beavers.

We love volunteers at parkrun, but can I just add, that it needs to be consistent and they can’t call off at the last minute, we have had some excellent DOE volunteers at parkrun, and some horrendous ones.
(Also - get your child to email in etc, it’s about building responsibility, and that doesn’t come from mum or dad doing it all for them).

One cleaned at the school (they used to employ sixth formers as cleaners and a lot of D of E ers volunteered as a way of getting on the waiting list for paid employment). The other helped out the art department at school by cleaning art equipment once a week.

Rainbows. She was in Guides so it was an easy call but she did it for years and loved it.

Volunteered at park run

My son helped at his football club's soccer school. Your local library might be an option. Or after school clubs at a primary school. There are lots of ideas on the D of E website.

Long time ago, but I went and walked dogs for the RSPCA, helped out with the local guide pack, and cant remember what I did for the third award.

Oxfam - one hour a week. Three years later she still volunteers there as they made her feel so welcome.

Coached younger kids football team
Helped with maintenance tasks at local National Trust place
Helped with after school club at local primary school

One helped out with Rainbow Brownies. The other volunteered at Dog's Trust charity shop. Of their friends... three volunteered with National Trust major property a couple of miles away, another also volunteered with Dog's Trust Charity Shop, and two volunteered in local Hospice.

All 3 of mine did Young Leader in different Scout Sections.

All 3 loved it and stayed on for years, rather than just the 3 months

@ BackforGood that’s what my eldest son also did. However.. we’re struggling with ds2 as he’s not old enough to be a Young Leader or Volunteer at Scouts as he’s still 13. They need to be 14and a half to be Scouting..
I’m going to read through this for ideas!!

Mine gave maths tuition