Bushcraft Training for Outdoor Practitioners
Providing training to outdoor centres throughout the UK
Woodland Survival Crafts offers a complete package of quality training to enable outdoor practitioners to deliver basic Bushcraft programs.
Whether you are a Forest School leader, Environmental Education Officer or Outdoor Instructor we will equip you to create and run safe and inspiring sessions.
Our initial 3-day programmes cover the following subjects:
- General safety and hygiene
- Safe and effective shelter construction
- Safe handling of tools
- Friction fire lighting for everyone
- General fire lighting and fire management
- String making
- Tree identification and their uses
- Wild food and wilderness cookery
- Water purification
- Natural orientation
- Challenging perceptions
- Delivery methods and programming
- Sourcing materials
- Linking in with OCN modules
Our woodland site on the Derbyshire/Leicestershire border provides the ideal venue complete with tidy self-composting toilets and covered areas for times of inclement weather.
Accommodation is in the shelters that you build, although in exceptional circumstances you may be able to bring and use your own tent.
All food and drink is provided but please let us know if you have special dietary requirements.
On the 3-day course you will attain a certificate of attendance and ultimately this can be accredited by Woodland Survival Crafts Ltd. following a 2-day assessment course.
Alternatively why not have us come and run this or a similar course at your centre and instruct your staff. We can advise on managing your woodland as well as capitalising on the unique opportunities your location offers.
This is one of the best courses I have ever been on. From start to finish I kept thinking "Wow! I never knew that."
The style of delivery gave us time to absorb the information and relate it to potential situations where we could use it in our work.
Within a week of participating in the course I have already used my new found skills on a managers' team-build and a forest school practitioner training programme and I am looking forward to sharing my new knowledge with young people on education authority programmes.
I used firelighting without matches; making a simple musical instrument from natural materials; and brewing up with a kelly kettle on the team-build and the people who took part in these activites were just as 'blown-away' with their success as those who had taken part in a 'high adrenalin' arial walkway activity.
Anne Humberstone, Outdoor & Woodland Learning
Course Dates
- 20-22 August 2007
- 5-7 September 2007
- 17-19 September 2007
- 28-30 April 2008
- 16-18 June 2008
- 11-13 August 2008
Assessment Dates
- 7-8 April 2008
- 12-13 May 2008
- 3-4 September 2008
Course Prices
- 3 day course at Spring Wood - £335 per person
- 2 day assessment course - £165 per person
(Discounts available for 3 or more trainees)
On site course:
- £450 per day plus travel (up to 5 trainees)
- £700 per day plus travel (7 to 10 trainees)
Additional Specialist Courses
Subject to demand Woodland Survival Crafts offers further opportunities to enhance your understanding of these fascinating topics.
- Plant and Tree Identification (2 days) - £135
- Wild Foods and Wilderness Cookery (2 days) - £135
- Friction Fire Lighting (1 day) - £100
- Using Bushcraft with disaffected people (1 day) - £95
Other Services Available
- One to one tuition - £185 per day
- Site visits and consultation - £400 plus travel
- Observing/Assisting on a Woodland Survival Crafts programme - £25
I attended one of Dave Watson's three day training the trainer days in his beautiful woods in Derbyshire, on arrival I felt enveloped with a sense of serenity, calmness and an inevitable sense of hope.
For the very first time, in a very long while, I was able to sit back and enjoy the woodlands that I love so much in a restful, supportive and caring environment.
It is a strange thing, stepping out and looking from the outside in, and from the inside out both at the same time. I gained confirmation that skills and knowledge that I was passing on to others was real, relevant and exciting. I grew personally in those skills and absorbed knowledge in unexpected ways. Most of all I grasped a deeper understanding of how important and key this world, and here I mean the natural environment, the social interaction, the emotional dimension, this way of living and perceiving, is to each of us and made me very aware that there are fantastic, loving, caring and gifted people who will always dare to inspire, encourage you to open your eyes to see the world you think you know and to give it more facets, more depth, more satisfaction and more motivation, if you are willing to open them and see for yourself.
So thank you for a fantastic time, and thank you that I could use very small steps to build an ember, that with the right resources, the right coaching, the right vision, that anything was possible and even the smallest spark can leap into the largest, hottest, brightest and most beautiful flame!
Sarah Blackwell
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