Duke of Edinburgh Gold residential

[2dogsand1baby]

AIBU to think that accepted residentials all cost a fortune and therefore exclude some young people from completion?

My sister is doing her Gold expedition this year, but all the residentials she can find cost hundreds (or even thousands!) of pounds to attend, or require a minimum age of 18.

What have your DCs used as their residential?

TIA

Have you tried national trust work camps

@Hollowvictory Minimum age of 18 so no good for her for this summer

She may need to do some fundraising to go towards it.

Mine did NCS last summer - there is a residential section there - we live in London and it cost £50

But also: Residentials in the £0-50 category

Youth orchestra if she plays an instrument.
Volunteer at a brownie/guide camp (in a different group to hers if she;s a member)
Sports camp.
national citizens service (NCS).

Huh, okay it won't do the direct link to the filtered results, but I promise there are some.

I'd advise going through the scout movement & i did all mine with them at a fraction of the cost.

Stem camps at various universities, tiny fraction of the cost.

She is an Explorer Scout so this might be the way to go! Thank you

Fundraising is surely the answer?

My dds both did World Challenge, which was very expensive, but we weren’t expected to foot the bill ourselves.

They did all sorts of things to raise the money - washing all the cars on our street, cake sales, a sponsored 10k etc.

Youth hostel volunteering. Wont cost anything.

volunteer.yha.org.uk/event/DofEVolunteering

Or, do all the other bits, and then do the residential once 18, eg post A levels?

I did mine with air cadets. Cost the price of food and possible £10 for camp sites we stayed on. We walked for 4 days and stayed at basic campsites aka fields and one night wilderness camping.

Plenty of cheap ones - YHA and canal camps are the cheapest I’ve found and I’ve heard positive things about them

Oops that was expedition. Residential we did with national trust

I work at yha and the volunteers always love coming to us. It's an outdoor activity centre so there's loads to do as well.

I went to Revitalise they have centres in Southport and two down south (can't remember where exactly). Spent a week volunteering and it was one of the best experiences I have had. It was free too. Check out the website

Remember u can't know anyone on the residential for it to count for D of E.

Our girl guides can do it through us and I think it's mainly fundraising applying to company grants that have benefit funds and lots of back packing and coffee mornings.

Remember u can't know anyone on the residential for it to count for D of E.

That isn't true. You can go with a friend, so long as you're in a much larger group of people who you don't know. Similarly, you won't be disqualified if you happen to know one of the staff members, but it can't be an organisation you regularly work with.