Bushcraft Weekend

An overnight experience in the woods with lots of opportunity to learn new skills from setting up your own small camp area to cooking over an open fire plus lots of other skills.

Course Description

A real adventure which will introduce you to many bushcraft skills. A great way to experience the great outdoors while learning.

This course will introduce you to the main skills you would require to survive and leave you with a good understanding which, if you wanted to, can be taken further to increase your depth of knowledge and ability.

As most things in the outdoors take longer than expected we will be working in groups to ensure topics can be covered efficiently.

Subjects Covered:

  • Natural surroundings: and interpreting them, the differences between woodlands, how they grow and respond to different weather conditions.

  • Shelter building: we will discuss safe siting of a shelter, using the woodland to and available resources to best effect and the safe construction of a couple of different styles of shelter which you can adapt to a range of scenarios all using natural materials .

  • Water: we will look at different sources of water, ways of collecting, filtering and purifying of water and then challenge you to make as clean as possible some water using natural materials.

  • Cordage: explore how our ancestors used natural materials to make cordage then get hands on making a length which you may find useful later in the day!

  • Camp gadgets: looking at simple, no tool, methods of suspending pots over your fire.

  • Fire lighting: we will look at how our ancestors made fire using the simplest of ‘tools’. Then we will move to more a more modern version before looking at a selection of suitable tinder's/kindling and creating a appropriate sized fire for boiling our pot of filtered water.

  • Friction firelight: finally we will round of the day with a demonstration then hands on use of the fire bow (bow drill) to create an ember then fire.

Suitable for:

This course is aimed at adults and accompanied mid / late teens.

Course Details

Location: Peak District

Course Length: Two Days, One Night

Start/End: 10:00-15:30

Max Course Size: 6

Price: £140

Course Dates

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  • Great value for money, when you saw what the kids learnt and how much fun we all had.

    I thought it was pitched brilliantly for the age of the children, more challenging and more involved than I was expecting and much better for it. The way you managed to get 7 children all safely having a go at starting their own fires... meanwhile the big fire getting toasty for the marshmallows etc, the perfect way to end a party. We could have had fun for 4 hours easily, it felt a shame to end.

    Gail

  • I had a great time on the Level 1 Bushcraft course!

    The weather was miserable but Peter was attentive and good humoured, always had a brew on over the fire and made sure that the activities could be done under the canopy as well as in the rain!

    Learnt lots of new skills and Peter told us about the benefits of various trees and bushes without it being dry. Peter also took photos and gave us access to the box so we could re-live the memories from the comfort of the sofa! I hope his new woodland offers even more!

    Hannah, Introduction to Bushcraft 1 day course

  • Thank you so much for today. It was wonderful - I don't think it could have been better.

    Callum was going to phone you to say thank you but he fell asleep!!

    Laura Hill, Introduction to Bushcraft Day

  • Bushcraft isn’t all about fire but we all know that’s the most rewarding skill to learn; I have since gone on to make fire by bow drill on my own after this course!

    I was bought a day course from my sister for a Christmas present to attend Red Oak Bushcraft day course and I only have positive praise for the course and Peter, the instructor. The course was organised but relaxed and Peter was never far away to offer advice when required. I learnt a lot for a relatively short Bushcraft course.

    Graham Chesterfield, Introduction to Bushcraft 1 day course

  • All of the students were super proud of themselves because they could light fire without matches and told their teachers and friends how it’s done!

    M Lomas, Buxton Community School, Introduction to Bushcraft Day

  • You were brilliant company, and a brilliant bush craft aficionado!

    Just wanted to say thank you so much for such a fantastic day!! We all enjoyed every minute of it - both us adults the bigger kids and even Gracie! The kids started the fires each night in our cottage with the fire steels and we all now are professional fire starters so thanks for those skills too!

    Kirsty Collings, Family Bushcraft Day

  • A really fun way to spend some quality family time, thanks!

    We went on a fantastic family bushcraft day with Red Oak Bushcrafts. It was really well paced day that the whole family (my wife & I and our 2 children aged 6 & 7) thoroughly enjoyed. The kids were never bored and stayed well engaged while we felt that we were also learning something worthwhile.

    John Hobson, Family Bushcraft Day

  • The brownies had a great time firelighting in the woods!

    They had to use their communication and teamwork skills to enable them to light their own little fires. After the initial whole group instruction, the leaders took the time to show each group how to practice and develop their firelighting skills. It was a very informal setting but they still covered literacy and numeracy skills and also re-enforced manners from the brownies! The brownies got to toast their marshmallows at the end and sing a campfire song. Definitely be back!

    Brown Owl Methodist Brownies, Buxton, Private Booking

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