About Bushcraft & Our Bushcraft Team

Neil Andrews is a very passionate outdoorsman who has spent time in some of the wild & remote parts of the United Kingdom, including North West Scotland, the mountains of Wales and in his home county of Dartmoor, Devon. A professional chef by trade of over 20 years standing, Neil combined his cookery and passion for the outdoors and has gained experience and an insightful knowledge of teaching outdoor skills, backwoods skills, wild food foraging &cookery, and expedition cookery techniques. Neil has worked with The Wild Food School in Cornwall, Challenger Troop in Kent (working with children with problems and learning difficulties), as well as many schools, groups and individuals throughout the UK. A keen believer in the benefits of natural fibre clothing he also designs and makes a range of dedicated clothing for outdoor professionals. In his spare time Neil spent eight years working with the Army Cadet Force, during which time he instructed regular soldiers, TA and cadets. As the unit Adventurous Training Officer he organised many trips to the welsh mountains, during these trips and many exercises he realised the profound effect spending time in the outdoors has on people of all ages.

Ian Spicer - Red Deer Bushcraft and Rifle Course Instructor

Ian is an all-round outdoorsman who was inspired by the great-outdoors at the age of 12 on a mountain-geology trip to North Wales with his school - from that time he has spent a great deal of time in many remote parts of the country including North Wales, the Lakes and the Scottish Highlands on walking and climbing trips and walking the down-land of Southern England. Ian is a fully qualified Shooting Instructor, he is also a very keen rifle-man and an avid deer-stalker - Ian offers client deer-stalking opportunities and runs courses on field-craft and Gralloch technique. Ian has been a keen ornithologist from the age of 10 and from an early age he has also been an incurable angler; Ian is especially interested in fly fishing for trout and salmon. Ian has an infectious enthusiasm for the British countryside and indeed everything outdoors; he has a wide range of outdoor skills, bushcraft and survival techniques.

Jim Prendeville - Red-Deer Survival Instructor

Jim spent many years teaching survival technique and strategies to the British Army in environments all over the world; he has worked with and alongside many of the well-known 'survival greats' and has built up an encyclopedic knowledge of survival technique, wild foods, edible plants and wood-lore. Jim is widlely aknowledged as an expert in Jungle and mountain survival; he is a fully qualified Para-medic, a qualified mountain-climbing instructor and a qualified expert in field First-aid. Jim has co-authored several books on wild foods and is an expert on wild plants, mushrooms and fungus; Jim has been an enthusiast about the outdoors all of his life.