Private / Corporate / CPD Days
As it will be your day lets chat about what you want to cover? It could be knife skills or game prep. It could be an instructional start leading to a bit of a team work competition to set up a camp, make a fire and a brew or a private family event.
Get in touch, lets chat :-)
Course Description
We really can cater for whatever you want to get out of the day, either totally skills based with a high degree of instruction and practice or a team building challenge day. Either way it will be fun.
We can also bring the experience to you. We are happy to travel and currently work with several organisations / corporate clients around the area as well as providing personalised days for groups of friends or families.
We can create personalised CPD days / sessions for Forest School Providers and have delivered at the FSA Conference and Roadshows
Subjects That Can Be Covered:
Natural surroundings: how to interpreting them with a view to dangers, sourcing of materials for shelter, fire and many other uses.
Shelter building: using natural materials or using tarps we can provide a comprehensive overview of the best place to site a shelter and safe construction.
Setting up camp: This might be using tarps and hammocks, tents or bivi’s. We can show you the best ways to site your camp including your camp fire, toileting etc.
Water: sourcing, collecting, filtering and purifying
Natural cordage: using the same techniques our ancestors did we will make string using natural materials.
Camp gadgets: simple structures for suspending pots over your fire.
Tool use: from bushcraft knife to axe. Folding saw to bow saw we can instruct on a range of different tools safe use.
Natural navigation: using your surroundings to be able to identify the main points of the compass in day or night.
Weaving: make simple baskets out of willow or bramble or more simple willow crafts such as bird feeders and Christmas Tree decorations.
Wild Food: learn about some of the abundant wild foods / medicines available in our countryside then cook them up into tasty meals or snacks.
Game preparation: learn about the different game available, how to prepare and cook them. This can include trout, rabbit, squirrel, wood pigeon or deer depending on whats available.
Tracking: learn about the different wildlife we have around us, how o identify their ‘signs’ and the prints they leave behind.
Fire lighting: using the ancient tools of flint and steel, the more modern fire steel and finishing with friction fire using the bow and drill or a selection of different methods.
Woodland games: things you can make and do to keep you entertained.
Many more: the above is a top level list but we
Suitable for:
As its your day, its suitable for whoever you are aiming it at!.
A happy group at the end of their corporate day out
Group fire bow (bow drill) session on a companies team build day.
3 large pans of tasty soup. We can cater for you cay as well.
A tinder bundle blown to flame after a successful team fire bow (bow drill) session on a company team build day.
Family shelter building on a private day, learning knots and how to chose a location as well as having fun!
At a clients site teaching plant ID and wild food cooking.
Family fire building, learning a correct safe way to have a camp fire.
Blowing life into a tinder bundle on a private day for a group of friends.
Working with a group of Brownie Guides on a private evening for their group.
Course Details
Location: Peak District or Your Place
Course Length: One, two days, its your choice
Start/End: Flexible to suit you.
Max Course Size: Your choice!
Price: from £200 per day
Course Dates
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