OFF-SITE ACTIVITY MEDICAL AND CONSENT FORM

In case you completed this form for a previous level you don’t have to do it again unless your medical status changed. This form must be completed and signed by a parent or guardian if the participant is under 18 years old and by the participant if over 18 years old. Please complete this form using capital letters.

The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award is a youth development programme. The Adventurous Journey seeks to provide participants with a unique, challenging and memorable experience. The journey should be undertaken in a small team in an unfamiliar environment, requiring determination, physical effort and perseverance. Participants are required to plan and undertake their journeys, without outside assistance and supervision will be remote. The expeditions take place under potentially unpredicted weather conditions and the overnight is in tents. They have to carry a rucksack that could weigh up to 15kg or more with all necessary equipment and food.
Adventurous Journeys last anywhere from two days to four days with the purposeful effort to be from 6 to 8 hours per day according to level.