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The Duke of Edinburgh Awards

The Duke of Edinburgh founded the #DofE awards in 1956. Now operating in more than 140 countries, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award has helped to transform the lives of millions of young people in the UK and across the globe, through the International Award.

Inspired by the Moray Badge, for which Prince Philip had worked whilst a pupil at Gordonstoun School, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award challenged young people to serve their communities, experience adventure and to develop and learn outside the classroom.

Throughout the UK, over 300,000 people are usually taking part in DofE programmes at any one time.

In tribute to The Duke of Edinburgh, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award are collecting and sharing people’s #DofE stories and experiences, creating the first-ever nationwide collection of ‘DofE memories.’ https://www.dofe.org/memories/

The #DofE is widely recognised as the world’s leading youth achievement award.

Over 13 million people have participated in the International Award in more than 168 countries and they have launched the first-ever global collection of Award memories.https://intaward.org/memories/

A message from The Earl of Wessex has sent a message to all those who have shared #DofE stories and their memories of his father, The Duke of Edinburgh.

Read it here: https://bit.ly/3e44uSr

His Royal Highness remained committed to The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award from its inception and continued to be involved.

In total, The Duke attended over 500 Gold Award ceremonies, attended by up to 300 young people at a time, since the #DofE was founded.