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Gold group on the top of Pen Y Van 886 metres in the Brecon Beacons. July 2011
First campsite Cwmgwdi farm near Brecon.
The award has been running in Kilmington for nearly twenty years! It was started by Richard Cotter, youth leader, at the Baptist Church and last year became based at St Giles Church hence the name Five Alive. We have about forty young people at various stages of the award.
There are three levels, Bronze, Silver and Gold. Four sections are completed at each level and five sections at Gold level. The extra section is the Residential, which involves being away for five days on a residential activity. Some of our young people have been on Tall Ships, helping projects abroad, CCF camps, charity activities, photographic courses and sailing courses.
The four sections are Sport, Skill, Volunteering and Expedition, two days Bronze, three days Silver and four days Gold. The expedition can be walking, cycling, canoeing and horse riding. We often go to Dartmoor or the Brecon Beacons for our Gold expeditions. Some of our young people have been to Kenya and the Picos, Northern Spain for their Gold expeditions.
We meet for training in the cricket pavilion usually on Friday evenings.
If anyone is interested in joining please contact Anna Cope 01297 32777 anna.cope@btinternet.com
D OF E AWARD WINNERS HONOURED
Councillor Peter Halse, Chairman of the East Devon District Council, attended a Quiz
Night in the Kilmington Village Hall on Friday 4th November and presented Duke of
Edinburgh Awards to youngsters who had earned them in the Five Alive Duke of Edinburgh’s
Award Scheme. 96 people took part in the challenging quiz conducted by the Rev’d
Alastair McCollum who thanked Anna Cope, the supervisor of the Group, and Steve Biddle
her assistant, who both spend much time and effort instructing the young people in
the scheme and ensuring their safety by day and night on the mountains and moors.
Peter Halse said how impressed he was with the achievements of the recipients: Gold
for Finlay Prescott, Silver for Sophie Keywood, Thomas Clarke, Marina Renee-
