For your duke of Edinburgh award do you have to do the voluntary work once a week or every day for three months?

Answer 1

It depends on whether you're aiming for a Bronze, Silver or Gold award. As the related link below shows, if you are taking the former, you must have at least three months of voluntary work under your belt. You must then take a further three months in any one of these sections:

• Volunteering
• Skills
• Physical

For the Silver award, you must complete 6 months of voluntary work, with a further 6 months in either:

• volunteering
• or physical/skills

For the Gold award (if you're feeling brave), you must do at least 12 months of volunteering, along with a further six months in either voluntary or physical/skills section.

There is much more that you need to achieve than what's mentioned above, in order to get your award, but this is, in a nutshell, what is required for each of the awards in terms of volunteering.

As for how long you must spend volunteering, I don't think there's a requirement to work once a month or once a week; just however often is convenient. Just remember though, the maximum age for the DoE is 25, so hurry!