How our programme can count towards your DofE
If you want to use your guiding activities and achievements towards your DofE awards, here’s what you can try.
There’s loads of areas for crossover between the Girlguiding and DofE programmes
We’ve highlighted below all the ways you can use what you are doing in Guides or Rangers as part of the different sections of your DofE Award.
Remember – you still need to do each section for the right timescale depending on the level you’re completing, for on average an hour a week. So the programme suggestions below would only count as part of your sections.
For example – if you did a skills builder activity for an hour one week at Guides or Rangers that matched with your chosen skills or physical activities, that could count for that weeks’ time spent on your DofE section. You’d still need to practise it every week for the rest of the time spent on that section and build on what you’d tried.
Remember to check out the programme suggestions for each section on the DofE website.
For Guides
These Guide badges and activities can inspire you for your Volunteering section
Interest badges
Skills builders
- Influence Stage 5 - Donation stations
- Make change Stage 3
- Make change Stage 4
- Make change Stage 5
Unit meeting activities
- Architects for action
- Drawing distractions
- Global goalie
- Go wild
- K is for kindness
- Litter lotto
- Talk on the wildside
You can use these badges and activities as part of your Physical section.
Interest badges
Skills builders
- Feel good Stage 5 - Fitness guides
Unit meeting activities
- Burning ball
- High flyers
- Kho-Kho
- Mastering the moves
- Surfs up
- Totally gaga
- Touchdown
Use these pages and activities as you work on your Skills section.
Interest badges
- Backwoods cooking
- Confectionary
- Investigating
- Media critic
- Natural remedies
- Navigator
- Personal brand
- Photography
- Upcycling
- Vlogging
- Whittling
Skills builders
- Communicate Stage 3 - Beat the butterflies!, Charlie, bravo, alphabet, Sign it spell it and Top comms
- Communicate Stage 4 - Actions speak louder than words, Bad chatter's tea party, Being deaf-friendly and It's the way you say it
- Communicate Stage 5 - Plain to see, Rhubard and custard, That's what I said and Erm, like, y'know?
- Explore Stage 4 - Conquer contours and Written in the stars
- Explore Stage 5 - Yes! and Root out the way
- Feel good Stage 3 - Build it with food
- Feel good Stage 4 - Chop chop
- Feel good Stage 5 - Rainbowls
- First aid Stage 3
- First aid Stage 4
- First aid Stage 5
- Influence Stage 3 - Decisions, decisions, Believe it or not, Persuasive performers and Comeback club
- Influence Stage 4 - Say it with passion, Womanifestos, MP Hear me! and Better letter forward
- Influence Stage 5 - Convince me!
- Innovate Stage 4 - Baking: it's a science!, Binary beads and It's not brain surgery
- Innovate Stage 3 - Build it up
- Innovate Stage 5 - Bridging the gap, High tech help and Level up
- Live smart Stage 4 - Nutrition mission and Builda board
- Live smart Stage 3 - Role up!, Make your case and Sauce up your life
- Live smart Stage 5 - Sliding scale Feeling hot, hot, hot and Pitch your pals
- Network Stage 4
- Network Stage 5
- Reflect Stage 4 - From bad to worse, Pick a card, Star of the show and Which words where?
- Reflect Stage 5 - Agree to disagree and Constructive communities
Unit meeting activities
- Democracy in action
- Games maker
- Information overload
- Macrame master
- Props to you
- Story swap
- Tap it out
- Uncovering the past
These badges, awards and activities can help as part of your preparation and training for the DofE Expedition section.
The challenge you do for your Guide Gold award can also count towards your DofE expedition or be part of your training.
Interest badges
Skills builders
- Camp Stage 3 - All activities except Invent a gadget
- Camp Stage 4
- Camp Stage 5
- Explore Stage 5 - Explorers handbook, Wash it off and Travel like a pro
Unit meeting activities
- Get carried away
- Thirsty work
- Warm in the wild
For Rangers
These Ranger badges and activities can inspire you for your Volunteering section
Interest badges
Unit meeting activities
- Action plan
- Acting out, taking action
- Empty oceans
- Equality vs equity
- Our choices our voices
- Palm oil protest
- Plastic personas
- Rainbow rewind
- Sew it, grow it
You can use these badges and activities as part of your Physical section.
Interest badges
- Sports
Skills builders
Unit meeting activities
- Anything goes hockey
- In the zone
- Karate block
- Kicking it
- Rhythm and rhyme
Use these pages and activities as you work on your Skills section.
Interest badges
- Animation
- Blogging
- Bushcraft
- Cooking
- Costumes
- Digital design
- Event planning
- Geneology
- Protesting
- Voting
- Women's rights
Skills builders
- First aid Stage 5
- First aid Stage 6
- Live smart Stage 5
- Live smart Stage 6
- Influence Stage 5
- Influence Stage 6
Unit meeting activities
- Balancing act
- Beat it
- Build the thrill
- Engineer your future
- Expect the unexpected
- Folded fables
- Flash fiction
- Gallery of the unusual
- Hiero-biscuits
- Legend of 1000 cranes
- Once a pun a time
- Plane and simple
- Printing pro
- Random redesign
- Ranger rovers
- Retro fashion
- Repeat to complete
- Show me the money
- SLAM
These badges and activities can help as part of your preparation and training for the DofE Expedition section.
Skills builders
Unit meeting activities
- Campfire cookout
- Can cooker
- Destructive discussion
- Rain collector
Part 3 of your Ranger Gold award can count as your DofE residential if it takes the same amount of time as needed for the residential.