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Type of activities vary considerably across age and life stages<br />

High percentage of young people participate<br />

for functional and lifestyle reasons, not ‘Sport’<br />

Regardless of their motivations for participating <strong>outdoors</strong>, young people are<br />

attracted to activities that provide the following:<br />

- Allow them to interact and spend quality time with friends - social occasion/<br />

shared experience, creating memories. Activities are often spontaneous;<br />

simple to organise; appealing; accessible; in interesting settings.<br />

- Activities such as lifestyle and extreme sports (e.g. roller-blading;<br />

skateboarding; windsurfing; surfing; sky diving; climbing; surfing, BMX;<br />

mountain biking; freestyle kayaking; extreme skiing and snowboarding) that<br />

offer a buzz or a tangible reward for their investment. These are activities<br />

that either ideologically or practically provide alternatives to mainstream<br />

sports and mainstream sport values.<br />

- Connect to an established part of current repertoire e.g. shopping, drinking.<br />

More and more young people are looking<br />

for opportunities to personally develop<br />

• Initiatives such as Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) and National Citizenship<br />

Scheme have experienced year on year growth.<br />

• The main personal development benefits for DofE participants are in:<br />

realising their own capabilities; overcoming challenge; building resilience;<br />

developing perseverance; having fun; the chance to do something new;<br />

gaining independence; achieving what seems impossible.<br />

• As a result of DofE:<br />

- 81% of young people feel that doing their DofE has made them more adventurous<br />

- 64% of young people said it allowed them to feel that they are better at sport<br />

or physical activity<br />

- 74% tried activities they would never have tried before<br />

- 69% of young people have new interests/hobbies<br />

- On average over 95% of those doing Duke<br />

of Edinburgh Bronze, Silver and Gold<br />

Expedition Awards participate in walking.<br />

‘What’ continued...<br />

Expedition Awards<br />

2013/14<br />

Bronze<br />

%<br />

Silver<br />

%<br />

Gold<br />

%<br />

Walking 98.9 96.5 91.4<br />

Canoe/Kayak 0.51 6.31 2.49<br />

Cycling 0.25 0.76 0.88<br />

Wheelchair 0.05 0.05 0.03<br />

Sailing 0.05 0.1 0.48<br />

Rowing 0.04 0 0.07<br />

Horse riding 0.03 0.07 0.18<br />

Other 0.14 0.04 0.62<br />

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