About us
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Woodcraft School are specialist providers of high quality bushcraft courses in the UK from beginner to instructor level. We offer courses in wild food, bow making, bushcraft, primitive technology, canoe expeditions and much more. Most courses are based near Midhurst in West Sussex or on the Dart, in Devon and are suitable for 18+ although we do sometimes allow younger ages at our discretion. Woodcraft Foundation will be providing a selection of these courses to our younger generations.
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Updates
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Last year we were featured on the NCFE website as a case study on how we are using our bespoke qualifications. Read all about it here by clicking the NCFE logo below
Our Reference page is slowly becoming a great place to find articles, advice on Forest Schools and outdoor education plus websites and information that enhance the outdoor classroom–please note it is a ‘works in progress' and we are going to be adding to this continually…
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Save this page to favourites for all our sightings, recipes and uses for emerging plants, berries etc in season. Out now are fungi and what to look for ....read more
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The Woodcraft Foundation
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Our sister company Woodcraft Foundation has been set up as a social interest company which reinvests profits back into the community for the purposes of education and environmental awareness. We are proud to offer the following:
Forest Schools – for ages 5-13
Outdoor Play Schemes (coming soon for April 2010)
The Forest School and Outdoor Play Schemes are designed to encourage our young people back into nature and to reap the benefits of the outdoor classroom. At the same time they gain valuable skills to help them socially and with future employment
If you are a company and are interested in funding some of this work then we would love to hear from you.
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Investing in Quality with the NCFE
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Woodcraft School are now pleased to announce our new Investing in Quality Licence with the NCFE. It means lots of new courses with accreditation are on their way, read our news page for more information...
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A selection of our past and present Clients
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New- Licence our Award - New
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If you have recognised bushcraft experience and are interested in licensing our NCFE Intermediate Bushcraft Award Level 2 for 14-19 years olds then please click here for more details.
Please note, you should already be running accredited programmes from other sources or learning bodies and have experienced staff in place to deliver these programmes. If you have achieved our Instructor course or our Advanced Bushcraft Award then you may be able to run this 14-19yr old qualification above, subject to approval criteria.
We have a new page with information on other schools running the award around the country |
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History
Our company began in 1992 as Woodcraft. It was a small company offering habitat management, arboriculture and the production of traditional crafts. We began to teach these skills at schools, colleges and for private groups and then in 1997 Woodcraft ran courses for
a leading bushcraft company. By 2000 Woodcraft was running its own bushcraft courses and in 2004 became Woodcraft School Ltd.
Why choose us?
Woodcraft School boasts some of the most skilled instructors in the UK, with experience gained not from practicing for months or even years, but for decades. Our assistant instructors have all completed our bushcraft leadership course, which in itself is a vigorous training programme, and have been asked to join us because they stood out amongst this extremely high calibre of students. Guest instructors are picked using the same criteria and in our eyes are very well versed and competent in their chosen subjects. We have trained thousands of students over the years using the following ethos; if we can’t do it ourselves to a very high level then we don’t teach it! In this we include the art of teaching as much as the art of bushcraft.
We are also pleased to announce that we are selected by West Sussex County Council as an approved supplier of outdoor education. |
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* The Institute of Outdoor Learning are offering an award called Foundational Bushcraft Competency (previously called Accredited Practitioner Award). We can provide the training for you directly at your site or you can attend our Essence of Bushcraft course which covers the whole syllabus and more.
However, if you feel you are competent already, then you can contact the IOL directly for the next assessment dates which are advertised on the IOL website. These two day assessments are open to existing Outdoor Practitioners who use Bushcraft and who feel that they have a good basic competence without the need for further training. Cost £180. Please contact Louise at the IOL on 01228 564580.
For full info: http://www.outdoor-learning.org/membership/bushcraft_survial_sig.htm
Please note that all successful candidates from both our Certificate in Bushcraft Leadership and the Advanced Bushcraft Award can apply to be automatically placed on this IOL Competency list without the need for assessment.
You will see our courses advertised on the IOL website training courses page here |
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DEFORESTATION IS COSTING US THE EARTH - HRH The Prince of Wales has launched the public awareness campaign for his Prince's Rainforests Project, including a 90 second public awareness film in which HRH The Prince of Wales appears alongside his sons and an array of well-known faces including Harrison Ford, the Dalai Lama, Daniel Craig and Robin Williams. We are encouraging everyone to sign up to The Prince's Rainforests Project. If deforestations carries on at the current rate we will lose our battle against global warming.
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Photos by Gary Oldmeadow, a student from BTCV
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