
Woodland Survival Crafts
Bushcraft and Primitive Survival Skills Specialists

Bushcraft and survival based activities provide an excellent basis for helping people to understand social skills; team and personal development; as well as environmental issues.
Woodland Survival Crafts offers a comprehensive range of bushcraft survival courses designed to educate, challenge and inspire both young and old.
Find out more about Woodland Survival Crafts and take a look at our dates and prices for our current standard range of courses.
We also provide personal tuition and mentoring on a one to one basis, as well as training for outdoor centres throughout the UK.
Reasons to choose Woodland Survival Crafts
- 29 Years of bushcraft experience
- Creator of the Open College Certificate “Woodland Survival Skills (Bushcraft)”
- First rate working knowledge in most bushcraft skills
- Superb woodlands set in the National Forest
- Exceptional rate of return customers
- Most of our instructors are Accredited Practitioners of the Institute for Outdoor Learning.
- Dave Watson has recently been credited with becoming a Leading Practitioner, one of the Institute’s highest awards.
- Dave Watson is a regular contributor to Bushcraft and Survival Skills Magazine.
Discover more about our popular bushcraft courses or read a selection of customer testimonials.
Opportunities for outdoor education centres, survival schools and bushcraft instructors

Woodland Survival Crafts is opening up opportunities to other organisations to head up some or all of the “Woodland Survival Skills (Bushcraft)” training programmes accredited through the Open College Network East Midlands Region.
These courses are making a huge impact, especially on young peoples’ lives, and are an opportunity not to be missed. An information pack is available on request, or find out more about the Woodland Survival Skills (Bushcraft) programme on this website.
About Dave Watson
Dave's passion for ancient survival skills, or ‘bushcraft’ as it has become known, led him to create Woodland Survival Crafts in 1995. Since then, Dave has witnessed the inspiring effects of learning bushcraft on both young and old.