From very small groups, to large public events I can offer bespoke training or demonstrations to just about anyone including some with phisical limitations.
The outdoors, it's healthy, its big, and it's free, but it's so much more fun, if you are safe.
Through the events and activities I will show you basic skills, some of them thousands of years old.
You can learn some of these skills, and gain confidence to relax, and enjoy being...AT HOME IN THE WILD!
Teaching sessions
You will find out how it is possible to survive comfortably with what you carry everyday (easier if you are one of those guys or girls that carries everything but the kitchen sink!).
You will learn how to use many natural resources to make fire, shelter, string, food, and even stone age tools.
The skills I teach can some take time to master (like the Bow-drill) but many clients leave teaching sessions with a great sense of achievement, their effort is always well rewarded.
Below are just some of the many Items I have made, that will interest your group!
Most items can felt, touched, and you can even smell some of them, like pine tar soap! .
The outdoors, it's healthy, its big, and it's free, but it's so much more fun, if you are safe.
Through the events and activities I will show you basic skills, some of them thousands of years old.
You can learn some of these skills, and gain confidence to relax, and enjoy being...AT HOME IN THE WILD!
Teaching sessions
You will find out how it is possible to survive comfortably with what you carry everyday (easier if you are one of those guys or girls that carries everything but the kitchen sink!).
You will learn how to use many natural resources to make fire, shelter, string, food, and even stone age tools.
The skills I teach can some take time to master (like the Bow-drill) but many clients leave teaching sessions with a great sense of achievement, their effort is always well rewarded.
Below are just some of the many Items I have made, that will interest your group!
Most items can felt, touched, and you can even smell some of them, like pine tar soap! .
Demonstrations and displays
I offer public (and small group) demonstration of traditional and ancient fire lighting methods, including flint & steel and bow drill, also using, and even eating Stinging Nettles.
You will see many tools and other items you can make from Flint, Bone, Wood, Bamboo and even Rhubarb.
These demonstrations have inspired many people to try Bushcraft.
Here I am demonstrating at a wedding event,
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS1XQ_KegzkjrWEQqQEevxNhZrnqZQ9g2
sadly the sound quality isn't great because there were so many people around but from the video you can see, it's safe and entertaining. I have made many other videos covering different subjects such as the rope making machine I made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Layfa7kDNm
I regularly visit The Bridge for Heroes (an armed forces charity) once a month for reminiscence mornings I have collection of inert British Army cold war and RAF survival items which the guys, girls and myself were only too happy to spend the morning talking, joking and sharing stories about. It's one of the well known ways to help sufferers of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and get back into society. I hope to support the group for many years to come. Scouts and Cadets would also find the Army/RAF kit interesting as a historical look at how materials and ideas have changed.
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