Welcome to Woodland Ways- one of the country’s premier Bushcraft & Survival course and equipment providers.

Woodland Ways operates fun, practical and realistic Bushcraft & 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.

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. 

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 piece 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 & survival skills, but with and 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 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 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 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 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 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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