About Oxfordshire Open Award
For full information about The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, your first point of contact should be the official DofE website.
Oxfordshire Open Award
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award in Oxfordshire is primarily run through a number of DofE Centres - schools and other self-governing organisations - that hold their own DofE operating licence (Directly Licensed Centres, or DLCs). In addition to the DLCs, a new charity, Oxfordshire Open Award, has been set up by a group of experienced Oxfordshire DofE volunteers, to run a county-wide Operating Authority to hold the DofE licence for open groups and individual participants not attached to a DLC.
Please direct all enquiries about the DofE in Oxfordshire, including requests to enrol with Oxfordshire Open Award, to the following e-mail address:
General Enquiries E-mail: enquiries@oxfordshiredofe.org.uk
Website Administration E-mail: webmaster@oxfordshiredofe.org.uk
Andy Pope, Oxfordshire Open Award DofE Manager
Oxfordshire Open Award Centres
The following Centres run under the Oxfordshire Open Award operating licence. Please follow the links for full details.
Abingdon Open Award Group: Contact Alan Wallis (abingdon.dofe@gmail.com, 07909 921365)
Kidlington Open Award Group: Contact Trevor Langrish (kidlington@oxfordshiredofe.org.uk)
Witney Open Award Group: Contact Susan Davis (witney@oxfordshiredofe.org.uk)
Oxfordshire Open Award Virtual Group: A Virtual Centre for participants to enrol with, if they are unable to reach any of the other Open Award groups easily. Please follow the link for further details.
Other Open Award groups may be set up across the county if there is sufficient demand. Please contact us and let us know!
Other DofE Centres within Oxfordshire
The map below shows the locations of the DofE Centres within Oxfordshire.
If you attend a school and would like to enrol onto the Award, firstly look on the map to see if your school has a DofE group. If it does not, you might consider joining one of the Open Award Groups also shown on the map, and listed above. Please contact the group directly, or via the Oxfordshire Open Award Operating Authority at the e-mail address at the top of this page for further information.
Green pointers - Open Groups licensed through Oxfordshire Open Award
Circle markers - Directly Licensed Centres operating independently of the Oxfordshire Open Award DofE licence:
Red - schools/colleges
Green - other groups
Please inform the webmaster if any of the information shown on the map is inaccurate!