Bushcraft for everyone
Standard Courses: Courses for individuals, families, beginners and experienced bushcraft practitioners alike
Set in beautiful woodlands on the Leicestershire/ Derbyshire border, our bushcraft survival courses cover a wide range of fascinating skills and techniques that are sure to enthuse and inspire you.
Although the courses are aimed at adults, anyone over 12 years old are welcome. Please note that those under 16 years old require a responsible adult to accompany them. Our Family Bushcraft weekend course can accommodate younger children.
Continue reading to find out more about each course, or view our course dates page to see when the course you are interested in is scheduled to run.
Our Standard Range of Bushcraft Courses
Family Bushcraft
A really fun weekend of bushcraft activities for the whole family. Kids, with their natural inquisitiveness and eye for adventure, will love camping out and learning ancient skills such as making fire by friction, shelter building and wilderness cooking.
Father & Son
A series of programs to bring healing to fathers and sons based around the principles of ancient rites of passage.
Friction Firelighting
Creating fire by friction is something of a speciality of Woodland Survival Crafts founder Dave Watson. He is the ideal tutor for this deeply satisfying course on traditional ways of lighting fire.
Introductory Bushcraft
This course will leave its participants with a foundational understanding in many core bushcraft survival skills.
Plant & Tree Identification
This course takes a look at understanding the main categories/families of trees and plants as well as understanding how to identify species by their features; location; time of year; and tips on how to use a field guide successfully.
Wild Food and Wilderness Cookery
Food tastes better outdoors, and it tastes even better when you have gathered and prepared it yourself. This course will give you the skills to identify and prepare commonly available wild foods - and then eat them!
Winter Woodland Survival
This advanced course looks at specific techniques and skills to survive in hostile, wintry conditions. Only available in the winter season.
Woodland Survival Skills (Bushcraft)
Gain a thorough understanding of what it takes to survive in the wilderness, and optionally earn an Open College Network accreditation. Take this course over five unbroken days, or as three separate modules.
Important Notice
On nearly all courses you will be in a woodland environment, cooking on open fires. It is therefore quite possible to burn, stain, or otherwise damage your equipment. Woodland Survival Crafts can take no responsibility for the condition of your, or anyone else’s, equipment. If you are unsure about the suitability of any equipment you may wish to bring, please ask.