Complete your Duke of Edinburgh Award volunteering with Harrow Litter Pickers.
Bronze Award: 3 months minimum - extra 3 months optional.
Silver Award: 6 months minimum - potentially an extra 6 months if you did not do the Bronze Award.
Gold Award: 12 months minimum - potentially an extra 6 months if you did not do the Silver Award.
For full details, see DofE Timescales.
Volunteers need to do an average of one hour per week.
For longer sections at Silver and Gold it can be useful to do an activity for longer but less often.
For example, in a Gold programme lasting 12 or 18 months, you could do one 4-6 hour session of volunteering per month.
You cannot condense an activity to less than 1 session per month and you cannot complete more than 6 hours in a month.
Silver Award: Attend 1 group event (the hour(s) spent on this counts towards your monthly total).
Gold Award: Attend 2 group events (the hour(s) spent on this counts towards your monthly total).
Please email an update each week with:
A photo of your collection.
A short description of your litter pick.
Your feedback helps us write the final report for your DofE award.
Use only purple volunteer bags.
Tie bags securely and leave them beside any Harrow Council public bin for collection.
Extra credit if you:
Sort recyclables into your home blue bin.
Focus on keeping a particular area consistently clean.
Please read our Health and Safety advice carefully.
Avoid litter picking in the dark - stick to daylight hours.
Consider going out with a relative, friend, or another volunteer (pairs are encouraged).
If you want to join a Group Event and you are under 18, you must be accompanied by an adult.
Cleaner areas reduce crime, improve community safety, and protect wildlife.
Removing waste stops plastic and rubbish from entering parks, rivers, and waterways.
Caring is contagious - when others see volunteers making a difference, they are more likely to care too.
If you have any questions, you or a parent/guardian are welcome to call us:
07720 412519 (Gillan Barnard)
07711 566059 (Casey Dalton)
Or email: harrowlitterpickersdofe@outlook.com.
Please ask a friend or relative to join our Facebook Group - Harrow Litter Pickers to see everything that is going on and how your volunteering helps.