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Welcome to Woodland Ways - one of the country’s premier Bushcraft and Survival school in the UK, offers a wide range of Survival training courses and the best brands of outdoor bushcraft equipment and survival kit accessories. Why not join our industry leading expert instructors on one of our bushcraft courses?

 Woodland Ways operates award winning, fun, practical and realistic Bushcraft and Survival courses throughout the UK. Based in our main camps in Oxfordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Lincolnshire our team of instructors will work with you to move beyond the realms of pure survival. We have been voted "Best in Bushcraft" by the readers of Bushcraft & Survival skills magazine, and was voted in at number 18 in FHM's top 100 adventures, come and see what everyone is raving about when they say Woodland Ways.

Survival skills are key to the knowledge we pass on, but we go further than this on each and every course - into the realms of Bushcraft.

Bushcraft for us is about making the most sustainable use of the natural resources available to you in order to work in harmony with your environment. 

Outdoor Bushcraft Equipment : Woodland Ways also retails quality outdoors equipment - with a difference! You will know if you’ve been on a course with us we are not easily pleased when it comes to equipment, and we always say never let anyone tell you “this is the best piece of kit ever” as each bushcraft equipment will have advantages and disadvantages depending on the environment. Therefore our instructors have field tested each and every piece that we sell, and we will tell you exactly what we think of it, good and bad, to enable you to make an informed decision, an approach we believe quite unique in online selling!

Woodland Ways over the years has established a highly respected reputation for not only building on the tradition of teaching bushcraft and survival skills , but with an emphasis on the protection and conservation of those environments we work within. But don’t just take our word for it, check out what our customers say about us on the testimonials page.

We operate a number of bushcraft courses to suit your budget, including our most popular Woodland Ways Weekend. We promise to stretch your horizons and knowledge of what nature can provide to ensure not only a hearth, warmth, shelter, water and food but much much more. But never fear, our approach to our bushcraft courses is one of fun and practical! You will not be worshipping the tree spirits or be shouted at at every turn, but will leave each course with a new set of survival skills and a memory of a great fun experience.

This relaxed, fun and friendly approach we believe is the best way for our instructors to share with you the survival skills of our ancestors. Through practical, hands on training, we will guide you through many different aspects of bushcraft, including building your own shelter, collecting and purifying water, fire lighting by friction, traps and snares, game and mammal preparation, navigation and natural foods to name just a few.

Check out the courses page for more details of each course, you can either join up as an individual, as a small group of friends or you can get a larger group of friends together to have a course ran just for you.

The contents of each bushcraft course are different but we encompass the following into one or more of each course.

We also provide further specialised courses which include off road driving, expedition vehicle choice and care, canoe building, fungi identification and desert survival.

Woodland Ways is committed to conserving and enhancing our natural environment. We work closely with Landowners to ensure that our activities are designed in a way that can help to improve the quality of the local environment and we actively promote the countryside code.

All our instructors are first aid trained; CRB checked and come from a variety of different backgrounds including conservation and military. They have year’s worth of experience from worldwide expeditions and are dedicated to you getting full hands on experience throughout the course. We hold full (£5 million) public liability insurance; all our activities are risk assessed.

We are not woodland romantics, but we are practical and realistic. We work in harmony with our changing seasons; adapting our practices throughout the year... for us this is not an optional extra...  but a way of life. We hope to see you soon...

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