Welcome to RedOakBushcrafts

Bushcraft & Wilderness Skill Courses in Derbyshire & Peak District

Relaxed & Friendly Bushcraft, Wilderness & Survival Skills Courses

Based in and around the fantastic Peak District National Park and within easy travel distance of Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham we offer Bushcraft, wilderness and survival skills courses in a friendly relaxed environment to enable you to learn the skills you want. We have several standard courses for adults or families but also offer private skills courses which can be tuned to your personal requirements.

If your company is in need of a team building / development day or maybe a stag, hen or birthday party then we can also cover that. We can provide schools with curriculum linked outdoor activities suitable for KS2, 3 & 4.

Take a look at our courses page or if you would like to learn a specific skill or two then get in touch and let’s see what we can arrange. We could even come to your site if that’s more convenient.

Our base is between Bakewell and Matlock but we are also happy to travel to you to deliver courses at your site be it a field, school, woodland or carpark! If you have some outdoor space we can work with it.

Gift Vouchers are available for all our courses or for an amount, an ideal Christmas Present :-)

Have a look at the course you are interested in or drop us an enquiry :-)

Bushcraft & Wilderness Skills Courses

Please choose an option below for more details, pick a course or contact us to make your own course with private tuition.

Bushcraft Skills Courses Derbyshire, Wilderness Skills Courses Derbyshire, woodland survival skills, bushcraft training

Introduction to Bushcraft

Step out into the woods and create some memories while learning new skills

Tools, Trees & Tinder

An ideal follow on from our Introduction to Bushcraft course

Family Bushcraft Day

Let the family escape from the house and have a family adventure having fun and learning stuff!

Tarps, Natural Nav
and Man made tinders

The ideal follow on from our Introduction to Bushcraft

Game Preparation
and Cooking course

Learn how to and get hands on experience of gutting, skinning/plucking!

Bushcraft Weekend Course

Learn the skills required to setup a wild camp while reducing your impact on the environment.

3 Day Introduction to Canoe / Bushcraft Course

Combine two activities for a journey into wild camping

Seasonal Wildfood course

Come and join us for a day of learning

Canoes, Campcraft & Castles

A 4 day expedition in the Highlands of Scotland

Family Tools & Crafts

Learn the safe use of tools in a woodland setting and create some craft items to take away

Introduction to Tracking course

Introduction to the concepts of animal tracking, giving you an awareness of your surroundings and animal habitats

Primitive fire course

Find how our ancestors made and used fire, how different materials were prepared and used.

Private Bushcraft course

Quality time to develop your skills. We can custom build you a course to fit your requirement's

Primitive Bone Tools Course

Step out into the woods and learn about how our ancestors used bones to create tools from the simple needle to harpoon heads.

Introduction to Lacto- fermentation course

Explore the wonderful world of lacto-fermatation and make some tasty healthy foods.s

Upcoming events.

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7th March 2026 - Introduction to Bushcraft

5th April 2025 - Introduction to Bushcraft

6th Sept 2025 - Introduction to Bushcraft Course

4th Oct 2025 - Introduction to Bushcraft

9th April 2025 - Family Bushcraft Day - 2 Adults & 2 Children

9th April 2025 - Family Bushcraft Day - 1 Adult & 1 Child

9th April 2025 - Family Bushcraft Day - Additional Child

9th April 2025 - Family Bushcraft Day - Additional Adult

12th April 2025 - Family Tools & Crafts Day - 2 Adults & 2 Children

12th April 2025 - Family Tools & Crafts Day - 1 Adult & 1 Child

Do you feel it’s time to escape the hi tech world we live in and step back a little, back to basics, back to connect with your surroundings, back to what you perhaps used to do when you were a kid?

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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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Please contact us if you have an enquiry or question, on the Contact Us page or by phone on 07900 152345. We aim to respond within 48 hours as we may be in the woods!