Silver

Minimum age 15 years old

There are 4 areas to the Silver Award

• Service
• Skill
• Physical Recreation
• Adventurous Journey

The Service, Skill and Physical Recreation components require students to undertake activities for a commitment of 6 months, either as;

• 1 hour of activity every seven days or;
• 2 hours of activity every fourteen days or;
• 4 hours of activity every 28 days
• Totalling 26 hours

If students are direct entries into the Silver Award, ie they have not completed the bronze award. They will need to select 1 component (service, skill or physical recreation) to complete an additional 6 months. Totalling 52 hours (12 months) in one component

Adventurous Journey:

3 days/ 2 nights practice journey (this could be days 1 – 3 of yr 10 hike)

and 3 days/ 2 nights qualifying journey (this could be days 4 – 6 of yr 10 hike).