Wildway Bushcraft
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Wildway Bushcraft Courses

Bushcraft courses for everyone

We offer bushcraft courses for all levels of experience. Our weekend bushcraft courses are the perfect place to perfect your skills, we also offer the chance to take your IOL accredited Foundation in Bushcraft Skills and Wilderness Living Course – Level 2.

We also provide bushcraft courses for schools. Our bushcraft courses for schools are specially designed to help children get a basic understanding of bushcraft, experience nature and the natural world in a safe, fun and educational way.

Here at Wildway Bushcraft, we believe that there is no better place than the great outdoors. Our goal is to provide fun, practical and educational bushcraft, survival and wilderness living skills to enable you to enjoy the outdoors even more. We can tailor your bushcraft courses and survival training to your needs, in our own fun, interesting and unique way.

One day and weekend bushcraft courses

Our bushcraft courses, survival courses, and wilderness living courses are held in some fantastic woodland throughout Dorset and Hampshire. We offer one-day bushcraft courses and weekend bushcraft courses in Dorset and Hampshire. Our one-day bushcraft courses are a great way to focus, one to one, on a variety of bushcraft subjects; be it friction fire lighting, foraging, campfire cooking, shelter building, and more. Why not try our weekend beginner bushcraft and survival course and our family bonding bushcraft courses. All of our bushcraft and survival courses are held in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Bushcraft courses for schools

Our specially designed bushcraft courses for schools can be tailored to the needs of your pupils.

Generally speaking, our school bushcraft courses will cover the following:
Fire lighting
Shelter building
Campfire cooking
Tree identification

Experienced and friendly instructors

Our Instructors are a friendly bunch and believe learning in this type of environment is the best way to teach bushcraft, survival and wilderness living skills. As you would expect all of our instructors have a vast amount of bushcraft and outdoors skills under their belt and have been teaching and leading groups in the outdoors for years so you will be in great hands. Bushcraft courses in Dorset are great, so why not take a look at our courses and join us in the woods.

Survival, Bushcraft and Wilderness living experts

About John

Founder and owner of Wildway Bushcraft, John’s love for the outdoors started at an early age. Raised in a military family John was always outside in local woods building dens and making traps.

He attended his first survival course whilst in the Scouts at the age of 12 and has not looked back since. John joined the forces at 18 and has been lucky enough to be part of expeditions in the Austrian Alps, the Kuwaiti desert, Norway and the Highlands of Scotland allowing him to test his Bushcraft and Survival skills in a variety of environments.

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Bushcraft and survival courses

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Learn new Skills

Bushcraft and Survival skills, promote confidence and self-reliance in the great outdoors

Reconnect with Nature

Reconnect with nature and discover what is possible with a few tools and a little knowledge

Mental Peace

Spending time in wild places is great for your mental health, it allows you to live in the “now” and take a well-earned break from modern life.

Family time

Bushcraft allows you to reconnect with family, by achieving a shared goal and removing outside everyday pressures.

Fun being Healthy

Just being outdoors is great for your health, being outdoors and learning new skills is even better and is so much fun!

Start your adventure

Good Bushcraft and Survival skills allow you to have many adventures all over the world, seeing things most people miss out on.

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Get in touch now

Don’t be shy, get in touch and say Hi. We’d love to hear what you’d like to do on a Bushcraft course near you. If it’s not already on our extensive course list then we might just add it for you.