Derwen College DofE Team Gold 2023/24

Watch Derwen College's Gold DofE team video 2023/24

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is recognised nationally and is the world’s leading youth achievement award. It gives participants the chance to develop skills for life and work, fulfil their potential and have a brighter future. Each section of the award gives the students an opportunity to be independent, to grow in confidence and to be challenged as an individual – something we actively promote at Derwen College.

Derwen College was the first provider in Shropshire to run the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award for a group of participants with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and we are currently in the tenth year of running the programme which has brought exciting opportunities for a growing number of students.

The College began offering the award in September 2014 with 11 students registering for the Bronze Award. In 2018, Derwen College was pleased to be awarded ‘Directly Licensed Centre’ status which allows the College to run the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award programme as a licensed organisation.

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Derwen College, in Gobowen, Shropshire, is an award-winning specialist college for young adults with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

The college prepares students for adulthood, giving them the opportunity to learn employability skills in real work environments; and to learn life skills to enable them to live as independently as possible.

Derwen College's recent awards include:
o Career Development Institute's Outstanding Careers programme – post-16 education 2024
o NASEN Award 2023 FE Provision of the Year.
o Natspec Innovation Award 2023 for Partnerships Working – for partnership with Rocking Horse Media.
o Skills Competitions Advocate Award in the World Skills UK Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Heroes Awards 2023.
o Lawn Tennis Association Awards 2023 – Shropshire School of the Year.
o Charity Retail Awards Innovation Award 2022 for The Vintage Advantage.
o SEND Awards 2022 – Support into Employment.
o SEND Awards 2022 – Inclusion in Higher and Further Education.
o 2022 Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Promoting Opportunity.

The College's main campus is in Gobowen, near Oswestry, with satellite sites at Ludlow, Telford and Walford (near Shrewsbury).