Members of the ACF in Scotland were presented with their Gold Awards and heartily congratulated by GOC 2nd Division, Major General Andrew Mackay at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh


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The Woodland Trust is encouraging Army Cadets to plant trees, and this would be an ideal group volunteering project for DofE participants, as well as an obvious APC Cadet and the Community undertaking. Click the link below to learn more.
Cadets and the Woodland Trust

22 members of Notts ACF were given an Introduction to DofE at their Training Centre at Chilwell by Lt Col Ed Sandham, Capt Martin Peterson and Major Robin Jones


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Potential DofE Accredited Expedition Assessors were taken though the generic training course by Major Robin Jones and Captain Martin Peterson. The next step is for them to complete a supported assessment before appying for national accreditation


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Sincere congratulations from us all to the ACFA DofE Advisor for Wales, Major Robin Jones, who has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queens Birthday Honours List.


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ACF leaders from Cheshire and Merseyside joined up with colleagues from the Air Training Corps to undertake a joint training course in Introduction to the DofE


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A very successful EAA course was held jointly with the ATC at 1855 Royton Sqn, tutored by Lt Col Mike Gerrish, Capt Martin Paterson and Sqn Ldr Helen Gerrish. As a result, we now have 37 DofE leaders needing a supported assessment opportunity in the near future!


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The latest (Summer 2009) copy of the DofE Magazine, concentrating on the Skills section, has been out for a few weeks now. If you still haven't got your personal copy, click on the link below and order one straight away.
Click here to order your copy

A must have for expedition training and planning, a copy of this package is available free to any County which has had a leader on either the Expedition Supervisor Training course or the Expedition Assessor Accreditation course. Click below, and see how to get your copy now
Click here to find out how to get EX2 free

The Gold Notification form (G4) has now been rebranded and renumbered as G5 (Welsh and Scotland) and G6 (Northern Ireland and English). Click on the link below and scroll to Gold Award notification forms . Completed forms should be sent to ACFA Northern Ireland, ACFA Scotland or ACFA in London as appropriate.
Click here for Gold forms

Hot off the press is the new, rebranded Expedition Notification form for Wild Country - the Green Form. Remember, a copy of this should be sent to the appropriate ACFA representative as listed on this website at Sections > Expeditions > ACFA representative
Click here to get the Green Form

Leaders from Norfolk and Suffolk ACFs joined together to participate in a concentrated IntoDofE course at their Cadet Training Centre at Thetford. A very long day led to successful completion of the course by all students


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