I did my gold DofE in 2019 when there was a major heatwave in the UK. The heat was unbearable and my group was the only group from my school to get everyone back with no illnesses. We did this by waking up at 4am to start walking in the cooler hours of the day and by knocking on people’s doors asking them to refill our water bottles. Without doing these things and using our initiative we would have ended up with people getting heatstroke etc like all the other groups did. DofE was one of my favourite ever experiences and I would do it again any day!!