FAQs

Family members (including extended family) cannot act as the Assessor for any section of the Award.

You can start your Bronze Award in the school year that you turn 14 (so that you can work through your Award journey with your peers). This means that you will be able to start Silver once you have completed your Bronze Award, but you must wait until you are 16 to start your Gold Award. If you are a direct entrant to Silver (i.e. you haven't done Bronze), you must wait until you are 15 to start your Silver Award.

Simply visit https://onlinerecordbook.org or copy and paste the link into your browser. Then either log in (if you already have an account) or click the 'Register' button to create a new account.

Yes. All participants are expected to use the Online Record Book.

Contact us for a list of suitable Award Units if you don’t already have one to move to, and we will happily make the change for you.

Read about what's required at each level: Bronze, Silver and Gold.

The Online Record Book will calculate how long the gap is, and automatically adjust your completion date for that section as soon as you start the activity again.

Find the activity options in your region here.

Yes. Your activities do not have to be provided by, or linked to, your Award Unit, but you do need to discuss your choices with your Award Leader before you start.

Absolutely! Your activities are done to the best of your ability, rather than a set of bench-marked standards so in most cases you will be able to do your Award if you have a disability or a medical condition

Yes, you can enrol at, and be mentored by, an Open Award Centre if you are not able to access an Award Unit locally.

Go to your region on our map to find the Approved Activity Providers that offer Adventurous Journeys in your area.  Note that the list includes both commercial providers and voluntary providers.

The frequency of the contact and monitoring between the Participant and the Assessor will depend on the activity and the age/level of independence of the Participant. As a guide every 2-4 weeks may be appropriate.

ORB allows up to 3 activities per Section however, this should be discussed with you Award Leader.

You can use a different sport in the off-season to make up the time requirements if you need to.

Criteria for a Residential Project:

• You must be 16 years of age and registered for Gold before starting any section at Gold
• You must be away from home for a minimum of five days and four nights
• You need to be involved in 8 hours of purposeful activity each day
• you should be with people you don't already know

Once you have decided on your Project complete the flowchart checklist here

Each level of the Award has a minimum amount of time required to complete an activity.  

Please read this document here

Bronze - $86.25

Silver $86.25

Gold $115

Some Award Units may charge an administration fee.  Speak with your Award Leader to find out whether they want you to pay National Office directly. 

The link in a Password Reset email will expire 12 hours after it was sent.

The link in the Parental Consent email will expire 96 hours after it was sent.

The link in the Assessor 'task' email will expire 30 days after it was sent.

Please add both of the following two email addresses to your Safe Senders list: ORB@OnlineRecordBook.org and NoReply@ORB.OnlineRecordBook.org

If your email address is provided by your school; place of work, etc. you may also need to ask your IT support provider to 'whitelist' the ORB email address on the school / company's mail spam filter (sometimes also called an "email content filter").

For the Participant App, any data that is recorded on the App while you have no Internet connection is saved and uploaded to the Online Record Book system when you have an active Internet connection. For the Award Leader App, you must always have an Internet connection for it to work.

The largest single file you can upload is 10Mb.