Physical Recreation 

• Acrobatics/Trapeze
• Aerobics
• Athletics
• Baseball
• Basketball 
• Canoeing/Kayaking
• Cricket
• Cycling
• Dance
• Football - Soccer 
• Football - AFL 
• Golf
• Group Fitness
• Gymnastics
• Handball
• Hockey
• Horse riding
• Ice Hockey
• Ice Skating
• Indoor rock climbing
• Jogging
• Jumping (high, long, triple)
• Keep Fit 
• Lacrosse
• Martial arts, e.g. karate, aikido, judo, kickboxing, fencing, kendo
• Motorsports
• Netball 
• Orienteering
• Personal Training Programs
• Polo
• Rowing
• Rugby
• Running
• Sailing
• Skateboarding
• Skiing/snowboarding
• Skipping
• Soccer
• Softball
• Squash
• Swimming
• Synchronised swimming
• Tennis
• Throwing (hammer, javeline, shotput)
• Volleyball
• Walking 
• Water polo
• Weight Training 

Skill 

Communications

• Audio Production
• Braille
• Film and video making
• Film studies
• Foreign languages
• Journalism
• Newsletter and magazine production
• Public speaking and debating
• Reading
• Radio, including hosting and producing radio shoes, and audio production
• Sign language
• Website and digital communication production, including blogs, podcasts, information architecture, programming, and front end design
• writing - creative, journalism, essays

Environment and Nature

• Agriculture/farming
• Aquarium keeping
• Astronomy
• Beekeeping
• Birdwatching
• Conservation
• Dog training and handling
• Forestry
• Gardening
• Horticulture
• Horse care and handling
• Insect Study
• Keeping pets
• Weather studies/meteorology

Games

• Backgammon
• Billiards
• Card Games (note that gambling is not permitted)
• Chess
• Darts
• Fantasy role-playing games
• Table games
• Pool

Hobbies

• Model construction
• Model Soldiers

Arts and Design 

• Architecture appreciation or building design
• Art history
• Calligraphy
• Choreography
• Dance theory
• Drawing
• Graphic design
• Painting
• Photography
• Sculpture
• Textiles and fashion design

Crafts

• Basketweaving
• Bookbinding
• Cake decoration
• Candle making
• Card making
• Ceremics
• Clay modelling
• Cookery
• Embroidery
• Flower arranging
• Glass painting
• Glasswork
• Jewellery making
• Knitting
• Lacemaking
• Leatherwork
• Origami
• Quilting
• Sewing
• Scrapbooking
• Rug making
• Soft toy making
• xc

Life and Vocational Skills

• Accounting
• Committee skills
• Coding
• Cooking
• Democracy and political studies
• Drug awareness
• Engineering
• Event planning and organising
• Furniture making
• Furniture restoration
• Hairdressing
• Health Awareness
• Home science
• Information technology
• Learning to drive
• Peer education
• Metalwork
• Money management
• Tailoring
• Woodwork
• Vehicle restoration
• Vehicle mechanics, including cars and motorbikes
• Upholstery

Music

• Bellringing (campanology)
• Disc jockey (Djing)
• Music appreciation
• Musical theory
• Playing and instrument, including learning, practicing, and playing in a band or orchestra
• Singing solo, in a choir, or with a band
• Composing music

Performance

• Acting
• Baton twirling
• Choreography
• Drama and theatre skills, including improvisation and street performance
• Circus skills, including juggling
• Puppetry

Sports-Related 

• Sports officiating
• Umpiring and refereeing
• Sports journalism
• Sports equipment making and maintenance
• Sports ground maintenance
• Flying (insurance restrictions may apply)
• Gliding (insurance restrictions may apply)

Voluntary Service

Ideas for Environmental service volunteering:

• Participating in conservation projets, e.g. clearing weeds, cleaning a river, or caring for injured or threatened fauna
• Caring for a public or school garden
• Providing, maintaining, and encouraging the use of public wastepaper bins
• Working in a clean-up campaign
• Bush and natural environment regeneration
• Joining local Landcare/Bush care groups

Ideas for emergency service volunteering

• Helping an emergency service team, e.g. SES, RFS, CFS/CFA, St John Ambulance, Royal Lifesaving
• Assisting wit local or national disaster operations, especially in the recovery phase

Ideas for animal welfare volunteering

• Caring or advocacy for threatened species
• Assisting with organisations which care for neglected, abandoned, or injured animals, such as the RSPCA or WIRES
• Walking the dog of an elderly or disabled person
• Wildlife rescue

Ideas for environmental service volunteering

• Fundraising for a charity - this could be through fundraising events like school fundraising drives
• Producing a newsletter for charity
• Creating or maintaining a charity's website
• Helping out at a charity, e.g. a used clothing store or food bank or soup kitchen
• Community education and health education
• Teaching or assisting a person to read
• Assisting at a hospice

Ideas for emergency service volunteering

• Help and befriend elderly 
• Volunteering at Church / Sunday School / Ministry / Youth Group 
• Tutoring 
• Visiting people in need, such as elderly or disabled people, on a regular basis to help with shopping, gardening, or other domestic tasks, or simply keep them company
• Voluntary work in hospitals, libraries, and care centres
• Visiting prisons or detention centres, under the auspices of the proper authorities
• Helping with a local community radio or newspaper

Ideas for sports and leadership volunteering

• Coaching / Instructing 
• Leader of a Youth Club / School / Sports Club / Organisation 
• First aid - doing a course and then making your skills available for the benefit of the local communikty, e.g. being a first-aider at  football matches or dance competitions, etc
• Refereeing/umpiring at junior sporting events
• Participating in patrols with the local Surf Life Saving Club

Ideas for youth work volunteering

• Acting in a leadership role in a youth club, school, or uniformed youth organisation
• Helping other young people participate in The Duke of Ed by acting as a leader for Bronze or Silver Registered Users under the guidance of one's own Duke of Ed Leader
• Community education and health education
• Working with experienced people to educate the local community or specific groups within it about important health issues such as malaria, AIDS, primary health care, or immunisation
• Assisting in the teaching of primary school children

Adventurous Journey  

• Bushwalking 
• Canoeing 
• Cycling
• Horse riding
• Rafting
• Sailing
• Cross-country skiing
• Motor vehicles and sports, e.g. off-road driving
• Scientific/geographic exploration
• Historical/cultural trips
• Experiencing and understanding other languages/ cultures
• Historic train or paddleboat journeys, e.g. if mobility is restricted
• Urban challenge focused on visiting and studying a diverse group of employers
• Flora/fauna studies
• Environmental studies
• Exploration of old cemeteries

Gold Residential Project

Personal and skills training courses

• Residential language courses
• Leadership training
• Skills development (e.g. music, art and crafts)
• Ecology study course
• Youth camps
• Youth parliaments

Voluntary Service to other people and communities

• Provision or maintenance of facilities or equipment
• Construction projects
• Assisting as a leader at a camp for young people
• Working with a local or overseas aid charity
• Working in a care home or hospital

Environment and conservation projects

• Volunteer work with national parks
• Environmental clean-up
• Habitat restoration
• Research on habitats and ecosystems
• Restoration projects, e.g. buildings Voluntary Service to other people and communities

Activity-Based

• Outdoor adventure courses
• Sports coaching courses
• Sport skills development and representative sport tours
• Crewing on a tall ship