Sarah Day AKA Memma is an experimental archaeologist with almost 2 decades of experience in bushcraft and primitive survival. Her previous experience includes working for Ray Mears for 13 years AND Will Lord of the Stone-Age for over 3 years.

Jess Shaw is an experimental archaeologist and the workshop coordinator for Butser Ancient Farm, a centre for research and hands-on learning. From doing  archaeological excavations around the UK and deep in the Mexican jungle, teaching children heritage skills, working with Memma the Cavewoman, to building and maintaining roundhouses; Jess now uses her varied experiences to collaborate with craftspeople and heritage skills experts to design and deliver workshops at Butser Ancient Farm. 

One of the longest established schools of Bushcraft in the UK, established 1995. Recognised by the Institute for Outdoor Learning (IOL) as an Approved Provider and assessor of Training for the Bushcraft Competency Certificate.

From paddling across Scotland in a packraft to leading expeditions in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Thailand and Peru, Lizzy (founder) has gathered a wealth of experience and her enthusiastic team know how to deliver an experience that will stay with you for a lifetime.

With a “Level 4 Certificate in Bushcraft Leadership” Christopher believes that Bushcraft is the practical process of learning from the environment you find yourself in, adapting the knowledge and training you have to it and living comfortably in it by becoming part of that environment.

Born of a lifetime of working with people and a passion for the outdoors. As an Accredited Practitioner with the Institute for Outdoor Learning and a holder of their Foundational Bushcraft Competency Certificate, Ian Cresswell offers a flexible response to your Bushcraft and Survival educational needs.

Operating throughout the globe with instructors delivering expeditions to Kenya, South Africa, Croatia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Sweden and much more. UK based, their large team (headed by founder Jason Ingamells) delivers courses from half-day workshops to the well renowned 2 year Bushcraft course, The Woodland Wayer.

Polly Bennett graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2018 and in 2019 completed The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Decorative Surfaces Fellowship. She is an Honorary Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, and a member of the Wilderness Art Collective, a group of creatives whose work discusses the natural world. 

Polly is an environmental artist “portraying the land, with the land” through traditional craftsmanship, using locally sourced materials that guide her process. Looking at site-specific historical context, combined with a museological approach to materials, she collaborates with, and investigates the surrounding rural environment to re-visualise her experience within it. The concluding work recollects the explored environment as a souvenir.

Polly is a natural pigment collector and maker. In 2020 she founded her company POLBEN’s Pigment, where she celebrates and sells sustainable artist’s pigments and inks created from natural materials sourced by herself.

Roger employs a friendly, confident and hands on approach to Bushcraft training and you’ll often find Bison Bushcraft expeditions to remote wilderness areas such as Northern Canada or The Rocky Mountains, where everybody involved truly lives off the land.

Rob is an expert woodsman who has been to every Wilderness Gathering since it started in 2003. He has ventured out on many expeditions and his broad skill set comes from a wealth of outdoors experience. He has a youtube channel with a strong following and is an accomplished knife maker.

Based in the Lincolnshire area offering a wide variety of engaging bushcraft and outdoor experiences for all. Our permanent team are Matthew Chapman and Maria Charles who bring together a wide skill set to make your experience challenging, inspiring and fun whilst maintaining high levels of safety and well-being.

Axe & Paddle was founded by Steve Le Say and his wife, Kirsty, in 2012. Steve teaches primitive skills and crafts such as Fur and Buckskin Tanning, Friction Fire Lighting and Moccasin Making and many other crafts. He also makes and replicates many primitive tools and artefacts, from bone tools to birch bark pots and rabbit fur gloves to sinew backed short bows.

Official European representative for Hull's Tracking School (Virginia USA), established in 2018 and led by Kyt Lyn Walken, mantracking expert, instructor and certified antipoaching ranger. The Way of Tracking provides mantracking classes all over Europe to SAR, Army and LE personnel as well as forensic consultancy.

Paul Bradley aka 'Bardster' of Bison Bushcraft is a consumate craftsmanwhose roots go back to the living history world where he learnt to recreate by hand the tools and artefacts of tiomes past. Paul works for Bison Bushcraft but has his own crafts website at www.probecrafts.co.uk.

Leading lecturer at The College of Naturopathic Medicine, Jackie is a career herbalist whose knowledge of healing flora is second to none. She offers plant walks, discussions on healing herbs and massage. She trades as Battle Clinic of Herbal Medicine.

Chris has a passion for survival related skills and believes that people should have the opportunity to develop their own knowledge and techniques and that the training they receive plants the seeds for them to achieve this. Chris has taught survival skills in temperate, tropical, arid, and extreme cold regions of the world during his 30 plus years involved in the survival skills field.

Angelina discovered her passion for soapmaking in 2009, embracing it as both a practical craft and a creative outlet. Over the years, she has become increasingly focused on using natural soap to replace harsh household chemicals, promoting a simpler, cleaner lifestyle. In 2023, she foundedHendon Soap Co, where she not only sells her handmade products but also shares her expertise through pre-booked soapmaking workshops and drop-in activities like lip balm, beard oil, and survival balm making. Whether teaching or creating, Angelina loves helping others explore the art of natural self-care. 

Willow has spent most of her life living in the remoter parts of the Scottish Highlands. Although born in the Netherlands, the rugged conditions and dramatic landscape of Scotland is where she feels most at home. She has become an accomplished craftswoman in many traditional skills, spanning from Neolithic times to the present.

Chris Grice has been on his own journey of nature wellness taking him from overwhelm and stress, to a place where nature brings balance to his busy life. Chris is a Forest School leader and has a lvl3 in Advanced Wilderness Therapeutic Approaches . He has also completed a level 2 in counselling skills which will allow him to help others to use nature as a mirror and benefit from the ‘wilderness’ as he has done. www.wildernesstribe.org

Rupert Loch formed Feral Science after a career in classroom teaching with the aim to deliver the same outcomes for students but with the additional benefits of learning outdoors. He offers direct teaching to students, curriculum design for schools and organisations and CPD training for teachers and practitioners. His unique approach combines bushcraft, navigation and experimental archaeology skills, using them to illustrate and provide context, engagement and enhance the learning for curriculum science up to GCSE level.

Wayne is the founder of Forest Knights. Having grown up in the Sussex countryside, his love of the outdoors turned into a passion, which turned into a career!

Having spent many years climbing and mountaineering in the UK and Europe, Wayne then travelled widely learning new skills and experiencing new environments from Arctic Sweden to Japan. He has also spent the last 20 years learning and then teaching the martial arts and self-protection, so all in all is a handy man to have about!

All this experience turned into a dream from which Forest Knights was born. As Wayne’s formal education was in Mechanical Engineering, the finer points of running a business and managing a multi-skilled team were not alien to him, however, as with all those who hold a true passion, the business focus never overtakes the fun aspect and Wayne is never happier than when sharing with others his knowledge and skills built up over the years.

Wayne successfully completed his Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician training at Glenmore Lodge and successfully re qualified with WEMSI in Ireland as part of our ongoing commitment to continuous improvement.

Practicing for over 25 years and teaching for the last 6, FlockYoga’s classes blends Iyengar, restorative, yin and vinyasa. There is a strong focus on breath work and meditation, in addition to stamina, strength and balance.hello@flockyoga.comflock.yoga or #flockyoga on Instagram Flock Yoga on Facebook

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Following a career in the armed forces and military intelligence, and having undertaken MSc and PhD degrees and a post-doctoral fellowship in academic cardiology, I worked for over 20 years as a Consultant Scientist in cardiology and lecturer in applied physiology before taking up full-time positions in pre-hospital and emergency medicine. Military service provided me with my first exposure to expedition medicine and disaster relief and I have gone on to serve as solo medic for expeditions in Africa, Asia, South America, and across Europe as well as gaining experience in delivering healthcare in the Channel Islands and as a search and rescue medic. I left my permanent NHS appointment as Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner in one of London’s busiest emergency departments in April 2024 to focus on my legal career and remote area medicine whilst I continue in my role as CEO and CQC Registered Manager for Remote Medic UK Ltd. My varied positions have provided me with extensive clinical experience as well as competence as a senior manager and leader with a broad understanding of NHS and private sector healthcare, academia, the military and commerce. I am an instructor for adult and paediatric advanced life support and trauma resuscitation courses, I was one of the first Paramedics in the UK to qualify as an Independent Prescriber, I have completed the JESIP National Tactical (Silver) Command qualification, and I am one of only a dozen UK clinicians to hold the Fellowship of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine.

With over 35 years of experience and a lifelong passion for geology, I have developed a strong interest in the science and practice of water locating, well drilling, and survival water purification — often in some of the world’s most challenging environments, from the Arctic and arid deserts to tropical rainforests and remote mountain ranges.

My introduction to drilling came unexpectedly while searching for star sapphires in Sri Lanka, where I first encountered percussion drilling. This experience sparked a deep fascination with both traditional and modern water detection methods, including the ancient art of water dowsing.

I studied geology at Aberdeen University and further honed my underground drilling skills at the Camborne School of Mines. Today, I focus on designing simple, low-cost, field-ready drilling rigs that empower local communities to take control of their own water supplies. My work also includes projects such as developing systems to detect liver fluke in drinking water and retrieving radioactive particles from groundwater — blending practical innovation with scientific research in the ongoing pursuit of safe, accessible water.