Duke of Cornwall - Community Award
The Community Award (14-18 year olds)
The Community Safety Award is aimed at 14-18 year olds
How it works
There are 5 activities; all 5 are compulsory to gain the Community Safety Award. Activities can be undertaken either at home or in the group.
Gain the Community Award
- Complete a 10 minute presentation of what should be included within a house hold grab bag with an explanation of why (within your group or to another section/Uniformed Youth Organisation).
- Understand and explain why a house and its occupants should have an emergency plan, where it should be kept and what should be in it.
- Produce a leaflet/handout on what to do in an emergency (you may pick any emergency, ie snow, flood, heat wave or disease).
- Find out about an International Agency based in the UK that is involved in Disaster Relief, have a discussion within your group about the work they do. Relay the findings from this discussion to another section, at the appropriate level for that section.
- Disease, there are two types for you to look into; Human and Animal. What control measures would you implement to minimise the spread of human diseases.
- Name three events that have affected the British economy due to Animal Diseases. What were they, how were they spread and controlled and what the impact on the economy was?
