Bushcraft & Outdoor Living Courses

"The Spark that sets the Flame"

Let us fuel your enthusiasm, build on your knowledge, develop your self-reliance and confidence and unlock the door to a lifetime's interest and a reconnection with nature.

We'll tell you about the basic 'pyramid' of survival skills, teach you the importance of shelter, water and food and how to prioritise these; along the way we'll show you some useful basic tools, give you some ideas on how to approach the way you dress when outdoors - what materials work best and start to get you thinking about how you conduct your time amongst nature.

Basic fire-creation and management will be covered; we'll show you how to make emergency shelters and then we'll look at more portable shelter options, tarps tents and hammocks.

A thoroughly enjoyable day at a relaxed pace; low impact on the environment; something for all the family....think of it as a 'how to camp' basic.

Duration 1-day

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This course is for individuals or groups who have already developed an interest in bushcraft and who now want to continue learning more. The content of this course covers in greater detail the core survival skills, you will be shown how to prioritise them and why:

· Shelter - Construction of some basic emergency shelters; we'll also look indetail at Tarps, Tents and Hammocks
· Fire - how to start fire, how to manage fires for different purposes, the importance of fire
· Water - how to collect, filter and prepare water for safely for drinking

These core-skills are essential to all bushcraft and outdoor living scenario; these techniques will be of fundamental use in virtually any survival or outdoor emergency situation; these are the basic skills could one day save your life. More than that though, we look at 'how to....' in greater detail, how to make the most of your time in the countryside, how to use the plants and materials around you, how to make some of your own tools and decorations...how to enjoy and above all, how to Leave No Trace.

'Basic' Bushcraft Courses are 2-days duration.

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Our "Family" or "Group" course - do something different with your family or friends this year!

1-Day duration
An accessible, family orientated, run during holidays so that you can spend some quality time with your family and learn new skills together.

Learn new life-skills and re-connect with the natural world around you!

Why not GO PRIMITIVE!

Come with us and enjoy a family weekend in the woods learning primitive living and backwoodsman skills.
Get some quality time with your children and share with them in the outdoor experience.

Learn about wild foods, not only what they look like - but how they smell and taste and how you can cook them. Spend a night in a shelter you have built yourselves using only what you can find around you. Stay warm and cook over a fire that you have made without using matches or lighters.

These are just a few of the skills you could learn on a weekend away with us.
Our highly experienced instructors will safely guide you through the basics of living out of doors with little more than the clothing you stand up in.
Re-connect with nature and with yourselves as a family, share together in the learning experience that could change your lives!

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"The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth"
(Horace Kephart)

Set amid the 16,500 acres of outsanding natural beauty that is Cowdray Estate in the heart of West Sussex the
Red-Deer Outdoors Pathfinder course is designed for anyone whose walks in the country are never quite long enough.

Learn the skills to travel lightly through the countryside and embark on longer adventures, carrying all you need to live comfortably without being burdened by the weight of the kitchen sink!
We will show you what you need to carry and how to use it. How to navigate, how to shelter, how to cook and what things nature can provide to lighten your load.
All of the skills you will be shown are designed to keep you safe in the great outdoors and keep the great outdoors safe from you. There is a very strong emphasis on minimising your environmental impact.

Course content includes:
Clothing & Equipment Selection
Packing a Rucksack
Bivouac Skills
Camp Cookery
Field Hygiene
Navigation

3-Days duration
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A new course for 2010 - a weekend of Wild-Indulgence!
The woods are our supermarket........we've taken one weekend, divided it into two Bushcraft / Wild-food based days. Day one is a focused session looking at wild foods, foraging, and techniques for augmenting the single 'personal' cooking system; day two will have more accent on fun, group cooking considerations and enjoying a roast meal in the outdoors.

On Saturday we will concentrate on foraging for wild foods, herbs and flavourings; we'll show you how you can use these to augment simple rations that you can take with you on any trip. Turn a simple meal into a delicious outdoor feast! Essentially, this day will concentrate of Personal Cooking requirements, keeping it simple, some tools and equipment you might need, fire-starting and management, gathering wild foods plus small game & fish preparation and cookery.

On Sunday you're invited to join us for a Roast wild-venison lunch! Focusing more on group-cooking requirements and skills, this second day will develop a fun environment in which to learn some new outdoor-cookery skills.

Join us for one or both days, staying over-night with us around a jolly camp fire. - Book early, this course is already proving to be enormously popular and places are limited!

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September 2010
An exciting 5-day Highland adventure set among stunning North-West Scottish Highland, beach and woodland environments.

"The best vacation an over civilized man can have is to go where he can hunt, capture, and cook his own meat, erect his own shelter, do his own chores, and so, in some measure, pick up again those lost arts of wildcraft that were our heritage through ages past, but of which not one man in a hundred knows anything at all"
Horace Kephart (1917)

Come away with us to the wild highlands of Scotland and learn the true meaning of independence.
Our instructors will show you all the skills you need to travel safely through this wilderness environment safely and all without leaving a trace of your passing.
As the course name suggests you will live a totally nomadic lifestyle, carrying all you need to survive and thrive. You will sleep under the stars, take your water from streams and eat what the landscape can provide.
We realise that safety is paramount and so you will be shown how to navigate by day and night, how to cross obstacles and how to recognise threats to your well being.
This is not a course for the armchair adventurer, a degree of fitness is required and of course……..a sense of humour!

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