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help! gold dofe residential

hi, does anyone have any good suggestions for gold dofe residentials? i need to do one this summer and i really don’t mind anything as long as it is less than £1000 ideally, and is for participants not over 18. (and based in or around london??)

for anyone who doesn’t know, it needs to be 5 days and 4 nights and i think needs something like 7 hours activity every day.

i am interested in geo spanish maths and econ but really any unrelated or even not subject orientated suggestions would be great. thank you so much!

Reply 1

Original post by okayokay100
hi, does anyone have any good suggestions for gold dofe residentials? i need to do one this summer and i really don’t mind anything as long as it is less than £1000 ideally, and is for participants not over 18. (and based in or around london??)
for anyone who doesn’t know, it needs to be 5 days and 4 nights and i think needs something like 7 hours activity every day.
i am interested in geo spanish maths and econ but really any unrelated or even not subject orientated suggestions would be great. thank you so much!

I take it you have already done a very basic Google Search and come up with nothing?

https://www.dofe.org/shop/aap-gold-residential-opportunities/

Reply 2

yep i’ve been looking for hours today and i’ve found 3 but they’re all too far or too expensive :frown: was just wondering if maybe anyone had any ideas or had done one themselves that they would recommend

Reply 3

Original post by okayokay100
yep i’ve been looking for hours today and i’ve found 3 but they’re all too far or too expensive :frown: was just wondering if maybe anyone had any ideas or had done one themselves that they would recommend

a lot of people do ncs which my friends have found quite fun!! i can’t vouch myself (im doing a classical languages camp lol) but everything ive heard about it has been good. there are three programmes you can do: live it (typical summer camp experience, you stay outside and there are lots of outdoor activities); change it (you focus on a specific issue that you want to change in society and come up with an action plan to work on it in a group, but you also do some outdoor activities); and boss it (focused on business and professional leadership, with some outdoor activities). they run camps everywhere throughout the country and it’s quite cheap (£95) for the whole five day experience bc it’s subsidised. hope this helps as a potential suggestion! 🙂

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Original post by sasha201
a lot of people do ncs which my friends have found quite fun!! i can’t vouch myself (im doing a classical languages camp lol) but everything ive heard about it has been good. there are three programmes you can do: live it (typical summer camp experience, you stay outside and there are lots of outdoor activities); change it (you focus on a specific issue that you want to change in society and come up with an action plan to work on it in a group, but you also do some outdoor activities); and boss it (focused on business and professional leadership, with some outdoor activities). they run camps everywhere throughout the country and it’s quite cheap (£95) for the whole five day experience bc it’s subsidised. hope this helps as a potential suggestion! 🙂


thank you so much for this, i’ve just had a look and it looks really interesting! thank you so much!

Reply 5

i’m still open to anyone else who might have any suggestions as although i was looking to do the course that sasha kindly suggested, there aren’t any available now thanks x

Reply 6

i ended up going on an fsc geography camp which i absolutely loved and would highly recommend!

Reply 7

Original post by sasha201
a lot of people do ncs which my friends have found quite fun!! i can’t vouch myself (im doing a classical languages camp lol) but everything ive heard about it has been good. there are three programmes you can do: live it (typical summer camp experience, you stay outside and there are lots of outdoor activities); change it (you focus on a specific issue that you want to change in society and come up with an action plan to work on it in a group, but you also do some outdoor activities); and boss it (focused on business and professional leadership, with some outdoor activities). they run camps everywhere throughout the country and it’s quite cheap (£95) for the whole five day experience bc it’s subsidised. hope this helps as a potential suggestion! 🙂
hi!! could you send a link for this? because ive googled ncs residential opportunities and for some reason i can't find anything 😭

Reply 8

Original post by aniqanazad
hi!! could you send a link for this? because ive googled ncs residential opportunities and for some reason i can't find anything 😭

hi! I just had a Google and I believe that the government have scrapped funding for it so unfortunately ncs have stopped running the programs now ☹️ sorry about that!

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