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Weekend Bushcraft Level 2 Course (NCFE IIQ Accredited)
Duration: Friday 7pm to Sunday 12pm
Accreditation: NCFE IIQ Level 2 Certification
Course Overview
Take your bushcraft skills to the next level with our Weekend Bushcraft Level 2 Course. This intensive, hands-on weekend is designed to enhance your knowledge and confidence in survival techniques, combining theory and practical sessions in a stunning natural environment.
Whether you're a beginner looking to improve your skills or an experienced outdoor enthusiast aiming to refine your techniques, this course offers something for everyone. Under the guidance of expert instructors (Level 4 and 5), you’ll delve deeper into the essentials of outdoor living, learning advanced methods that could prove invaluable in real-life survival scenarios.
What You’ll Learn
- Advanced Firecraft: Master firelighting techniques, from friction fires to understanding fire behaviour and how to sustain it in different weather conditions.
- Shelter Building: Learn how to construct advanced shelters that provide warmth, safety, and protection in varying climates.
- Foraging & Wild Food: Develop your knowledge of wild edible plants, fungi, and safe foraging practices, including preparation and cooking. You also get the opportunity to get stuck in to game preparation of rabbit, trout and pigeon.
- Cutting Tool Skills: Understand how to use and maintain cutting tools like knives and saws to create useful tools for use in the wilds and how to stay on the right side of the law.
- Water Purification: Learn how to safely collect and purify water from natural sources, ensuring you stay hydrated in the wild.
- Natural Cordage: This is the subject that ties it all together.
Why Choose This Course?
- Accredited Learning: Earn a Level 2 NCFE IIQ accredited qualification that demonstrates your enhanced bushcraft expertise. This is the original Level 2 Bushcraft Course - why go anywhere else?
- Expert Instruction: Our instructors are passionate professionals with years of real-world experience in survival, bushcraft, wilderness skills, and outdoor education.
- Practical Experience: The course is designed to give you hands-on experience with every skill, ensuring you leave with tangible abilities.
- Small Group Sizes: We keep our group sizes small for more personalised training.
- Beautiful Location: The course is conducted in a beautiful, accessible outdoor setting, allowing you to fully immerse yourself in nature.
Ideal For:
- Anyone starting their bushcraft journey
- Campers and hikers looking to increase their outdoor expertise
- Those seeking to improve their survival skills in a controlled and safe environment
- Anyone starting their bushcraft journey
If you would like to bolt on the assessment for the same weekend as your training for just £65 then please click here: Level 2 Assessment
For Police, Fire Service, NHS or HM Forces discounts please contact us on 01453 752220 if you have a Blue Light Card.
Course Dates and Availability
- 26/09/25 - 28/09/25 - Staffordshire (FULLY BOOKED)
- 17/10/25 - 19/10/25 - Devon (FULLY BOOKED)
- 24/10/25 - 26/10/25 - Staffordshire
- 14/11/25 - 16/11/25 - Devon
- 21/11/25 - 23/11/25 - Staffordshire
- 20/03/26 - 22/03/26 - Devon
- 27/03/26 - 29/03/26 - Staffordshire
- 10/04/26 - 12/04/26 - Devon
- 24/04/26 - 26/04/26 - Staffordshire
- 05/06/26 - 07/06/26 - Staffordshire
- 26/06/26 - 28/06/26 - Devon
- 03/07/26 - 05/07/26 - Devon
- 24/07/26 - 26/07/26 - Staffordshire
- 07/08/26 - 09/08/26 - Devon
- 28/08/26 - 30/08/26 - Staffordshire
- 04/09/26 - 06/09/26 - Devon
- 25/09/26 - 27/09/26 - Staffordshire
- 02/10/26 - 04/10/26 - Devon
- 23/10/26 - 25/10/26 - Staffordshire
- 06/11/26 - 08/11/26 - Devon
- 27/11/26 - 29/11/26 - Staffordshire
This is a 'hands on' course. The instructors will explain and demonstrate but you will get the opportunity to have a go at everything!
- Course: Weekend Bushcraft Course and Level 2 Bushcraft, Survival and Wilderness Living Skills Training Course. Accredited by the NCFE. (CQ11765)
- Venue: Devon (Near Exeter - EX11 1LU) and Staffordshire (Near Burton upon Trent - DE13 9RW).
- Times: 7pm on the Friday - midday on the Sunday.
- Ages: All ages above 14 years welcome. Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.
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Friday's Itinerary:
- 7:00pm Safety Brief
- 7:30pm Safe Cutting Techniques for knives, folding saws and bow saws. Make Camp.
- 8:00pm Put up tarp shelters.
- 8:30pm Game Preparation (pigeon or pheasant), cook evening meal and eat.
Saturday's Itinerary
- 7:00am Breakfast
- 8:00am Cutting Techniques (making pot hangers, mallets and more advanced woodwork)
- 9:00am Shelter Building (the shelters you make in this session will be the shelters you'll sleep in on the Saturday night)
- 12:00pm Trout preparation - lunch
- 2:00pm Rabbit or Squirrel Preparation (This is your evening meal which will be simmering for a few hours to make it the most tender meat you'll ever taste. Delicious!)
- 3:00pm Fire Lighting. This session is a favourite and includes natural and manmade tinder, fire lays, fire lighting techniques and friction fire lighting.
- 5:30pm Water preparation. A very important topic if you're travelling and venturing out into out of the way places.
- 6:30pm Natural Cordage. Making string from plant fibres.
- 7:00pm Evening meal and a chance to chill out after a very busy day.
Sunday's Itinerary
- 7:00am Breakfast
- 8:00am Pack kit and break camp
- 8:30am Knife Law and Knife Sharpening
- 10:00am Foraging. Learning to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, tree ID and tree uses.
- 12:00pm All good things must come to an end and the course departs.
The skills and techniques you need to live in the wilderness are expertly demonstrated and explained so that you can master them before leaving the course. You need have no knowledge of survival skills to attend this course. This is learning through experience at its best. Most people come on this course as individuals or pairs. If you have a large group, please contact us for your own weekend.
The itinerary may change depending on the weather, but all subjects will be covered.
