I recently attended a two-day forest skills course run by Chris at ‘Wildwise’ – www.wildwise.co.uk ) at Dartington. While I have some experience of firelighting, foraging and shelter building it was more than just brushing up on skills, I learnt considerably more than I perhaps expected in those areas as well as use of knives etc.

It was a small group and Chris has a very relaxed manner and great expertise. I would thoroughly recommend it. He also works with children and families and hosts other courses such as ‘Environmental Storytelling’ which I hope to attend next year.