Massive thank you to our Challenge supporters!

The DofE Scotland team would like to say an enormous thank you to our DofE Challenge supporters for their help, guidance and donations towards our DofE Diamond Challenge.

Vango kindly donated dry bags, trek mats, gel burners and Vango buffs to our Challenge. We're sporting the buffs and dry bags in the photo below.

All the kit was essential to our Challenge – not least the buffs for helping to keep the midges off!! Vango’s long been a supporter of the DofE and a range of their products feature in the Expedition Kit List. Like us, they are celebrating a big anniversary this year – 50 years – so our congratulations to them and our thanks for their support of our Challenge.

Outlook Adventures were also essential to our DofE Challenge. They were kind enough to donate the time of two extremely experienced canoe guides who helped us to navigate the Spey descent. We could not have done it without the help of Dave and Jerry who kept us afloat. Outlook Adventures is an Approved Activity Provider of DofE expeditions. They also grabbed some brilliant photos of us in action.

We also have to thank everyone who has made a donation. As a team we’ve now raised over £3,000!!!! We’re amazed by the generosity of our friends, family and other supporters who have helped us to fund raise so much. Everything raised will go towards our work with disadvantaged young people, enabling to change their life chances by taking part in DofE programmes. If you'd like to make a donation, you can do so on JustGiving.

Moray and our DofE Challenge

We chose Moray to end our DofE Challenge for a very particular reason. The DofE Award was inspired by the Moray Badge, founded by Kurt Hahn at Gordonstoun School. 

We're really excited to celebrate the Scottish roots of the DofE Award by travelling through Moray on our DofE Challenge. You can see these roots celebrated at the DofE Commemorative Stone project in Fochabers. The stones mark each of the six decades of the DofE. The whole project was run by local DofE participants. Be sure to visit!

Lots of Moray participants are taking up a DofE Challenge. Iain Sword, who collected his Gold Award at Holyrood Palace earlier this summer, is one of the them. 

Iain's come a long way as part of his DofE. He has High Functioning Autism and he said that doing his DofE has "definitely built up my confidence and helped me in social situations in general."

For his DofE Challenge, Iain choose walking the West Highland Way. 

1 Week to Go!

There's only 1 week to go until we start our DofE Diamond Challenge. You might have forgotten what it is, so here's a video to refresh you.



It's been so long since we came up with the idea that we've nearly forgotten ourselves!

We had a meeting this week to work out the details and all of us are still trying to wrap our heads around the first day - an ascent on the bike as high as a Munro!

We're really looking forward to it though. It's going to a be a great time to build our relationships and our muscles and show off the great things that being involved with DofE can help people achieve.

Don't forget to sign up for your own Challenge.