Learn Wilderness Survival & Bushcraft in East Sussex / Scottish Highlands

Honest level: Beginner -> Instructor — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Masters & lineage

• Ray Mears

Schools in East Sussex / Scottish Highlands

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Woodlore - Ray Mears
  Woodlore Fundamental Bushcraft (week-long)
  Founded in 1983 by Ray Mears in East Sussex, Woodlore is a long-running British bushcraft school whose week-long residential Fundamental Bushcraft course teaches fire-lighting, shelter, tracking and woodcraft as the foundation of its instructor pathway.
  https://www.raymears.com/Bushcraft_Courses/
• Frontier Bushcraft
  Elementary Wilderness Bushcraft (6 days)
  Founded in 2010 by Paul Kirtley, Frontier Bushcraft runs courses in Ashdown Forest woodland in East Sussex, with a six-day Elementary Wilderness Bushcraft course covering fire, shelter, axe and knife work, plants, tracking and navigation under canvas.
  https://frontierbushcraft.com/
• Bushcraft Expeditions

The credential

Woodlore / BOSS field-instructor apprenticeship or advanced certificate · Certifying body: —

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Wilderness Survival & Bushcraft

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.