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Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

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Our new Bronze Award group are starting their training on Thursday 11 February, if you are interested in joining the group please come along on that evening or give Rachel Bean a call on 020 7481 4210, or email Rachel.bean@Shadwell-basin.org.uk

The group will be training onsite with evening sessions in navigation, campcraft and cooking.  These sessions will lead on to day trips out around London to put the skills into practice, before gearing up for a practice weekend and the main expedition early in the autumn.

The training dates for 2016 are as follows:

Thursday 11 February – Equipment evening at Shadwell

Sunday 6 March – day out for navigation

Thursday 17 March – Map reading evening at Shadwell

Thursday 14 April – Tent pitching evening at Shadwell

Thursday 21 April – Navigation evening at Shadwell

Sunday 15 May – navigation day out at Bewl Water

Thursday 26 May – Campcraft & cooking evening at Shadwell

Thursday 9 June – Navigation planning evening at Shadwell

Sunday 19 June – day out at Ashdown Forest

Thursday 7 July – First Aid evening at Shadwell

Thursday 8 September – Route Cards and expedition planning evening at Shadwell

Friday 9 – Sunday 11 September – training expedition – venue TBC

Thursday 29 September – Final planning meeting at Shadwell

Friday 30 Sept – Sunday 2 October – Assessed Expedition – venue TBC

 

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