Private / Corporate 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.

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!.

Course Details

Location: Peak District

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

Click on the date to book your space:

  • 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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