Anyone interested in this? They don’t have dates as yet but need names of those interested to get things rolling. This is fully funded course, they just need people to teach!

Please contact enquiries@woodlandskillscentre.co.uk if you’re interested

Canolfan Crefftau’r Goedwig
Woodland Skills Centre

The Warren, Bodfari, Denbigh, LL16 4DT
tel day 01745 710626 – mobile 07711 472033
e-mail enquiries@woodlandskillscentre.co.uk
www.woodlandskillscentre.co.uk
Woodland Skills Centre is part of Social Enterprise Company Warren Woods Ltd
Registered in Wales Company number 07176786

Training programme for people wishing to lead community groups in the outdoors

This package is designed to give Youth and Community Leaders and other appropriate adults the basic skills to take groups for activity sessions in the outdoors. It is fully funded by NRW.

Part 1

A 2 day week-end course at the Woodland Skills Centre

  • Basic safety in the outdoors
  • Safe tool use (secateurs, lopper, pruning saw etc)
  • Principles of woodland management
  • Basic woodland ecology
  • Tree ID and uses of trees, edibility of wild plants
  • Practical woodland management activities – planting, formative pruning, coppicing
  • Simple coppice crafts – hazel hurdles, pot stands, tent pegs

Part 2

A 2 day week-end course in Bushcraft:

  • Natural fire-lighting techniques
  • Shelter building
  • Seasonal wild food and medicinal plants
  • Camp Cooking
  • Using natural materials to make useful artefacts
  • Knife and axe work
  • Tracking and navigation techniques

All courses will be delivered at the Woodland Skills Centre in Bodfari. All the Centre staff are professionally qualified, have full insurance and appropriate first aid certifcates and are experienced in this work. The Centre has a 50 acre site, workshops and meeting rooms.

Each student who completes the course will be given a Woodland Skills Centre certificate of attendance detailing the course content and will be abe to buy a basic Bushcraft kit of knife, firesteel and pruning saw (value £75-00) for a cost of £25.

Rod Waterfield
Woodland Skills Centre