Once you’ve completed your programme, make sure you, your Assessors and your Leader have made comments in your Record Book and all signed it.  Your Leader/Co-ordinator will then send it to your Operating Authority (OA) who will check everything is in order.

All being well you will be told that you’ve achieved your Award – congratulations!

You’ll receive your certificate and badge – ask your Leader where this will be.  It could be at school, in your group or at a larger local presentation.

On completion of your Gold programme, you must also complete a Gold notification form.

The completed form should be sent to your Leader who will sign it and send it to your OA and DofE Regional/ Country office to authorise.

Your OA will send you your badge.  Your DofE Office will pass your details to Head Office who will arrange for you to be invited to a Gold Award presentation (GAP) to get your Gold Award certificate.

If you choose to attend a GAP, you’ll be rubbing shoulder with royalty because you’ll receive your certificate in the presence of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip) or HRH The Earl of Wessex (Prince Edward) at a royal palace.  All sounds very grand doesn’t it!

Here are what the new Gold Award badge and brooch look like, along with the new cloth pouch: