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Duke of Edinburgh Training and Award dates 2010

Listed below are the expedition dates for this academic year and details of significant pre-expedition training events.

Expedition Dates

Bronze Award:

Practice Expedition: Sat 15th May - Sun 16th May 2010, in Bedfordshire.

Assessed Expedition: Sat 12th June - Sun 13th June 2010, in Bedfordshire.

These expeditions will commence at 12:30 p.m. on the first day and end at approximately 12:30 p.m. the following day.

Silver Award

Practice Expedition: Sat 1st May - Mon 3rd May 2010, in Derbyshire.

Assessed Expedition: Fri 25th June - Sun 27th June 2010, in Derbyshire.

These expeditions will commence at 8:30 a.m. on the first day and end at approximately 5:00 p.m. on the final day.

Gold Award

Various dates to be confirmed

Pre-expedition training events.

There will be the following pre-expedition training events, in addition to the training organised within school:

Bronze Award practice walk: 6th February 2010.

Bronze Award overninght camp and walk: 24th -25th April 2010.

Silver Award practice walk: 24th January 2010.

Gold Award practice walk: 7th March 2010.

CCF Events

Dates of residential training events

  • Annual MOI Cadre at Chicksands Camp - 23 rd to 27th August 2009.
  • Field Weekend - 18th to 20th September 2009.
  • Recruits Field Weekend at RAF Banham - 16th to 18th October 2009.
  • Winter Adventure training, Bavaria - 12th to 19th December 2009.
  • Adventure Training, Scotland - 27th March to 3rd April 2010.