Duke of Edinburgh's Award & the John Muir Award
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Green Team gives participants and leaders a chance to take part in two Award schemes:
Duke of Edinburgh's Award
If you are 14-25 you
can achieve your Volunteering or Skill sections with the Green Team
at Bronze, Silver and Gold levels. The minimum requirements are:
- Bronze
4 days over 3 months (or 6 days over 6 months)
- Silver 6 days over 6 months
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Gold 10 days over 12 months.
At Silver and Gold you need to take part in at least one residential project. To find out more about the Award in Edinburgh visit www.fota.org.uk/edinburgh-lothian.
| Doing your Duke of Edinburgh's Award with the Green Team: When you start your Award with the Green Team please let us know which section you are working towards. To fulfill the requirements of the Volunteering section at each level you just need to turn up and take part for the required number of days. For the Skill section you need to be able to demonstrate what you have learned about conservation work and environmental issues through a short set of questions which require you to do some individual research. For more information, download our info sheets: DofE Skill Bronze | DofE Skill Silver | DofE Skill Gold. |
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Once you have completed enough projects to fulfill the requirements of the level you are working to you should give your record book to a leader at the end of your last project or send it in by post.
The
John Muir Award
The John Muir Award is open to all Green Team participants and leaders. This dedicated environmental award fits well with the ethos of the Green Team and the structure to our projects. For people working on their Duke of Edinburgh's Award, the John Muir Award complements the work they are already doing, while for others it can be a standalone Award, or the first step on a lifetime interest in the environment.
The John Muir Award focuses on wild places. It is named after John Muir, a great Scot best known for establishing National Parks in the USA and championing the value of wild places for nature and people.
The Award encourages
people to:
Discover
and explore a wild place - find out why it
is wild, what lives there, and how all aspects of the wild place (including humans)
and inter-related and depend on each other.
Take practical action to conserve it - by making a difference to the future of the wild place.
Share their findings with others - by writing, talking, drawing, publicising, thinking about the place and why it is important.
If you have achieved your Discovery Award with the Green Team, and would like to progress on to the next stage - the Explorer or Conserver Award - then we are very happy to help you do this. The emphasis for the higher levels of the John Muir Award is on a deeper engagement with wild places over a longer time scale. You decide what you'd like to do, and the Green Team helps you to achieve your dream!
For the Explorer or Conserver Award you fill out your own Proposal Form with ideas for your particular project and submit this to the Green Team. We are very happy to discuss the time commitment and project ideas with you, and you can refer to the Explorer Ideas Sheet to help you get started.
Of course, the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and the John Muir Award can be tackled by any young people. And although we encourage everyone involved in the Green Team to take part in the John Muir Award, you don't have to - if simply coming along is reward enough for you, that's fine by us!
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