May Bank holiday is always a silver dofe practice expedition, allowing us to get the three days in for training. The weather was pretty good with Bablake and King Henry school, 2 days of sun and a bit murky on day 1. On their Silver DofE expedition, all the students...
The last 2 weeks of April saw the start of the Bronze DofE expeditions for Badger Adventures. The last weekend of April, there was lots of rain in the Rutland area and the Chilterns area, not only the kit got wet, but the students got wet too. All the students were...
After the two DofE expeditions in the Lake District, we had some very wet kit, which all needs to be sorted and dried, and on the few occasions repaired. It is mainly hanging tents and group shelters for the DofE expeditions that we run, drying them out...
Bablake and King Henry school turned up to the Lake District for their DofE Gold practice. The weather being a little kinder than in March, however the students got to use and test all of their DofE kit. ( Most of it worked ) The students did fantastic in some tough...
End of March, a really early Easter we are always looking at the weather at this time of year when we walk through the mountains. Bromsgrove Gold DofE’ers were fully prepared and after the kit check, we had a couple of hats to hand out, which the students found...
Our penultimate weekend in March consisted of training days for two schools, John Fernley and Casterton. Rach program for the DofE training day was to run the Silver training day, planning routes for the previous years bronzes dofe’ers and then running a round...
