DofE gave me skills which I use in everyday life. It gave me friends for life and the ability to help and inspire people younger than me to take part.

I did bronze walking, silver canoeing and gold open horse riding. I did different musical instruments for each skill level, horse riding for all the physical sections, volunteering with scouts where I'm now a leader for the volunteering sections and for gold residential ai recurved a gliding scholarship.

I think DofE is something that every young person should have the chance to do.

I now want to get involved with DofE as an adult and give more young people the chance to get involved and do expeditions.