Outspark

23/02/2024

We're running (the first ever?) Bronze DofE Open Expedition programme specifically for home-educated teens, working with our sibling enterprise, P4HE/GIFT. They've negotiated a new route to registration for home-edders previously excluded from the Award. Expeditions in Ashdown Forest and the South Downs!

A route we've negotiated for home educators and their friends to participate in Duke of Edinburgh Award, and an expedition programme specially for you.

29/01/2024

Great to see the success of some of our expeditioners, at Beacon Academy, being celebrated!

Beacon Academy celebrated the achievements of its 2022-23 DofE cohort with an awards ceremony last week.

28/11/2023

We're going to be running a programme of DofE expeditions for home-educated young people. Our friends at www.p4he.org/dofe2 have the details. They've persuaded DofE to allow home-educators who were previously excluded from the Award to access it via DofE Direct. We'll be running Bronze and Silver in Ashdown Forest and the South Downs.(including our founder, Jason, wearing a different hat)

A route we've negotiators for home educators to participate in DofE, and an expedition programme specially for you.

20/08/2023

Someone putting their memories of Bronze DofE to creative use... "Thirty years ago at high school I went on a camping trip for a Duke of Edinburgh Award and there was a point where I thought I was going to be consumed by the midges," he said.
"I imagined my stripped skeleton being presented back to my parents, with a bronze award as consolation."

With a Gold expedition out in Northumberland at the moment, we hope we're not providing material for a sequel...

Crime writer JD Kirk said his readers are buzzing about the idea for mutant biting midges.

09/10/2022

SGS Bronze DofE on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset. We’ve been bringing boys from this school here since before this year’s lot were born!

09/10/2022

Spot the DofE group…

05/06/2022

All our Bronze groups have done their training now, some are onto their practice in the coming weeks and a few have already squeezed in their qualifying expeditions. Adding all the distance they'll have walked by the end of the season, it's something like half way round the world! Here's the video we filmed this year to let young people know what to expect.

This is "Bronze DofE 6 day programme" by Jason Buckley on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

02/11/2021

Schools - looking for a stimulating, fun and accessible day for Primary-aged children? Why not try our new 'Outspark Day'? Mixing P4C and team building activities and games - and all at your school site - the Outspark Day could be a great way to engage children, learn new skills and increase curiosity. Get in touch via Facebook or emailing [email protected]

07/02/2021

Our MD must be feeling the strain of lockdown...

There may only be 3mm of snow, but you can still make a snowman...

11/10/2019

A video celebrating a fantastic, hectic week with Cottesloe School. 163 Year 7s in 4 overlapping waves of two days, hiking, climbing, archery, pioneering, bushcraft, campfire and feast! 21 out of 63 Cottesloe teachers came to help out at some point in the week - amazing support!