BUSHCRAFT

BUSHCRAFT WITH CHMAS

Bushcraft is an excellent way for families, friends and individuals to come together and have some outdoor fun! CHMAS is a small family run company which makes us a good choice if you are after a quality personal experience where you really feel looked after.

Our current list of activities is shown below and we look forward to hearing from you.

  • Come & Try Bushcraft Sessions
  • School Bushcraft Groups
  • CPD Sessions & Technical Advice

Come & Try Bushcraft Sessions

If you have ever wondered what it would be like to light a fire and cook a meal over an open fire then our ‘Come and Try Bushcraft’ course is just what you are looking for. The sessions are usually 3 hours long and are a fantastic way for family and friends to come together to have fun in the outdoors and learn about bushcraft.

  • During your time with us you’ll be shown:
  • Cutting tools and how to use them safely.
  • Shelter making.
  • A variety of ways to light a fire without matches.
  • How to use your fire to cook a simple meal outdoors.

Dates

We generally run these courses on demand and at specific dates through the summer holidays.

Cost

The courses are charged at £35 per person and we need a minimum of 4 people to allow the course to run.

School Bushcraft Courses

Learning outside the classroom engages with all ages and all abilities and promotes a sense of well being. This can be brought about by such simple things such as identifying a tree, creating an ember by friction fire lighting or more commonly getting a fire going to toast marshmallows or cook a meal.

These courses are run to your requirements at a location of your choice, which could be the school grounds, a farmer’s field (provided we have permission) or at one our locations.

To date, we have provided the following unique activities.

Woodland Fun Session
Exploring in the woods to hunt down the ‘Graffalo’ for a local nursery.
Bushcraft Taster Sessions
A progressive series of 1 hour sessions to introduce the key bushcraft skills of safe tool use, fire lighting, carving and camp cooking for a local primary school.
Bushcraft Team Challenges
After a bit of instruction the teams need to collect the materials for a fire, then using a method of their choice light it, once its lit use the fire to cook a simple meal and then clear up afterwards. These courses have proven to be popular for uniformed youth organisations and for corporate team events.
Fire Lighting Sessions
A full session on how to light a fire without matches from bow drill used by our ancient ancestors right through to chemical reactions. A great way to engage young people in physics, chemistry and biology.

If you would like us to provide one of these activities for you then please get in touch to discuss your requirements so that we can give you a fair price.

CPD Sessions / Technical Advice

Chris is a very experienced Bushcraft Instructor who trained under Survival School and he is also an Institute for Outdoor Learning Bushcraft Practitioner . These awards combined with his experience means he is well placed to help your staff develop bushcraft skills by either running CPD Sessions or issuing Certificates of Competence so that you know your staff are competent to lead the bushcraft activities that they run. He also works with a few organisations as a Technical Expert to ensure that they meet their Health & Safety obligations either in the form of risk assessments, safe operating procedures or by providing staff training to ensure the bushcraft activities are undertaken safely and in accordance with current best practice.

If you would like CHMAS to help you run bushcraft activities, then please get in touch to discuss your requirements.