DChA experience route sample scripts

When reviewing these scripts, please note the following.

• The assessors expect your application to provide details of experience from your employment during the last five years. The examples given in the sample scripts, such as those referring to the pandemic, were well within this period at the time when the applications were made. The charity employee script covers employment at two different charities.
• The scripts have been adapted as necessary to maintain the anonymity of the applicants and the organisations referred to.
• Where appropriate, an indication has generally been given of the financial size (level of income and assets) of the charities referred to, so examples are placed in context. The examples in the scripts have been taken from both large and small charities: the assessors are not concerned with the absolute financial size of the charity or of the examples being discussed, but with whether the examples are material to the charity.
• In general terms, the scripts display the characteristics of successful scripts as highlighted in the guidance within the application form. Some answers do not display all of these characteristics, but the answers to all requirements on all three scripts achieve a pass standard.
• In particular, the scripts demonstrate a strong awareness of ethical issues.
• The scripts present a broad range of scenarios emphasising the wide scope of each requirement as envisaged by the assessors in the illustrative list of examples provided for each on the application form. In most cases, they reflect situations that are specific to the not-for-profit sector.
• Some examples are sufficiently pervasive that they could have been used at more than one requirement (eg, the answer to requirement 1 in practice example 1 could equally have applied at requirement 3).

• Sample script - practice example 1 (PDF 329KB/7 pages)
• Sample script - practice example 2 (PDF 315KB/7 pages)
• Sample script – charity example 1 (PDF 316KB/9 pages)