Day 1
Woodland Adventure
Our 1 Day Woodland Adventure will introduce you to the amazing world of bushcraft.
Learn how to gather fire wood to build and light fires, identify edible plants, forage for woodland food, learn about water purification, identify signs of woodland birds and animals, develop basic navigation skills and learn about the safe use of knives and other woodland tools.
This 1 Day Woodland Adventure course is the perfect first step on your journey into the world of bushcraft. It has been designed to provide an introduction to the techniques and skills of bushcraft and is also excellent for those who like to learn new skills but don’t yet feel ready to spend a night out in the open.
During your time with us you will learn how to safely use bushcraft tools, how to light a fire without matches, how to construct an emergency shelter, how to identify plants for food and medicine, how to cook over a fire, and many other key skills.
The course is an excellent experience for anyone over the age of 8yrs and no previous bushcraft experience is needed, although a moderate level of fitness is required. Subjects covered during this course may vary depending on seasonal changes. However, if there is a particular subject that you would like to know more about please feel free to ask your instructor. We are here to help and educate. We also offer a range of specialised 1 day courses such as the Fungi Forage, Fire lighting, etc just call to book one of these. All meals for this course will be provided, allowing each student the opportunity to do some back country cooking. If you have any special dietary requirements please let us know on your consent form or contact the office.
We provide a kettle, tea, coffee, squash and biscuits in a brew box at the main camp fire of the course, under a large canopy. We also have fresh drinking water and a selection of fruit.
Course includes:
Day 2
Woodland Adventure
Our 2 Day Woodland Adventure contains all the elements of our 1 Day Woodland Adventure and builds on it by spending a night in the woods. We will train you in building a dry and weather proof night shelter where you will spend the night sleeping out under the woodland skies. Test your stamina, determination and grit against the elements having eaten a hearty supper cooked over your own camp fire.
Please contact us for group bookings on any of these courses.
Additional information
Booking availability
Wednesday – Sunday
Minimum Age
5 years (accompanied by Adult)
Max group size of 10.
Prices start from £350
Family Bushcraft
“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home”
Trenton Lee Stewart
Looking for an alternative family day out?
Want to get the family away from it all?
How about a Family Bushcraft experience?
Our Family Bushcraft course is a fun-filled full day out for everyone. Get back to basics and appreciate all that nature has to offer. In our Family Bushcraft and survival experience your family will build their own shelter, light a fire without matches and learn about basic water purification.
What’s included?
Fire Lighting
Learn the basic principles of lighting a fire, find kindling, feather sticks and identify the best natural materials for your fire. Then truly get back to basics and light your fire without the use of matches.
Shelter Building
Develop bonding in your whole family as you identify and collect the best materials to make your own shelter together. Can you make it weather proof? Will you all fit in it? With expert guidance you will all learn a lot and don’t forget the success of your shelter may be tested!
Camp-fire Cooking
You have your shelter, a fire burning and the water on the boil. All that is left to do is cook lunch over your camp fire and enjoy the beauty and peace of the woods.
Additional information
Booking availability
Wednesday – Sunday
Minimum Age
5 years (accompanied by Adult)
Prices start from £350
Forest Schools
Get the class outside and join Cheshire Bushcraft in our fantastic Cheshire woodland. Our Forest School uses the woods and forest as a natural learning environment. Even a short walk usually ignites a child’s natural inquisitiveness with questions of “what’s this?” and “Why does that do that?” In our forest schools you can build on your class’s natural inquisitive attitude and culture a joy and appreciation of the world around them.
Sessions at Forest School are always child led to encourage curiosity, exploration, creativity and decision making skills. Through regular visits to a Forest School children are able to develop independence, improve language skills and raise their self-esteem through small achievable tasks in a woodland setting, with assistance from our engaging and expert Bushcraft team.
Our program is designed to let the youngster get up close to the woodland and all it has to offer. Our team of engaging Bushcraft experts show the children how to enjoy, learn and have fun with nature.
We explore the woodland, having fun as we find what creatures and wildlife live in and amongst the trees. We learn how to enjoy a safe woodland campfire, how to forage the woodland to see what our native woodland hides, the safe use of simple woodland tools, how to identify trees, fauna and fungi that live in the woodland.
Additional information
Booking availability
Monday- Sunday
Max group size of 20
Duration 2 hours
Minimum Age
7 years (accompanied by 1x free Adult)
Prices start from £350
Woodland Wildlife Walk
“Back through the forest! Stumble trip! Stumble trip! Stumble trip!”
Michael Rosen
We’re going on a Bear hunt
Taken a walk in the woods recently? There’s so much you might have missed.
Take a walk with our rangers to spot the owls
Our rangers will show you the animal signs and tracks, point out and explain about fungi and plants and take you to the best places to see rabbits, squirrels, woodpeckers, foxes and more. Have you ever had the child ask what their recent bug capture is and stared at some multi-legged bug without a clue? Find out about the bugs of the forest and be prepared next time when they come with their most recent find. As the seasons change there is always something new to see. Our walks in the woods are not a walk in the park; they are a mini woodland experience.
Learn about the local wildlife, their habitats and ecology while building a home for wildlife yourself. Build a home for birds and encourage them to nest in your garden. Build a bug hotel for ladybirds and help deal with the greenfly on the flowers. Encourage caterpillars or spiders to set up home in your back garden and fill it will colour or rid it of mosquitoes this summer. Build a damper home for frogs and toads and let them deal with your slug problem.
Booking availability
Monday- Sunday
Max group size of 2-6
Duration 2 hours
Minimum Age
7 years (accompanied by 1x free Adult)
Prices start from £350
