The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award officially launched their new Archive collections site as major part of the DofE at 70 celebrations.
Anyone with a connection to The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) is being invited to celebrate the charity’s 70th anniversary by joining the likes of Matt Tebbutt and Dame Kelly Holmes in sharing their fondest DofE memories at DofE.org/your-story.
Through these shared experiences, the DofE charity is celebrating the millions of remarkable young people who have transformed their lives and the communities around them through DofE, and the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who make DofE experiences possible — whilst inspiring other young people to start a DofE journey of their own.
Since its conception in 1956, the DofE reaches 15.5 million young people globally, with over 8.5 million young people having started a DofE Award in the UK – enough people to fill Wembley Stadium 94 times.
Chef, television presenter and Gold DofE Award holder Matt Tebbutt, who has already shared his memory on the charity’s new website, fondly reminisces about his unusual expedition meal and how he should have known that he was destined for a career “centred around food.”
Matt said: “During my Bronze expedition, while my friends were sensibly rationing freeze-dried meals and cooking their instant noodles, I decided to take a rather unusual item for my evening meal: a fillet steak. I had diligently packaged it, seasoned it and pan-fried it in butter – delicious. In my mind, a fillet steak seemed like the perfect outdoor meal — portable, practical and protein-rich! Looking back, it’s clear that, even then, my foodie tendencies, no doubt encouraged by teenage greediness, were leading me towards a career centred around food.”