The SurvivalCraft Workshops

Workshop Overview

The two day follow up workshop includes the Principles and Presentation aspects of the course. It is a continuation from the one day Taster workshop. The first two hours of each day covers the principles, with the afternoon spent devoted to a mixture of presentation of gear, with discussion around these items and practical applications.

Each day will be from 10:00am until 5:30pm-ish (over 6 hours tuition).

The cost of our 2 day follow up workshop is £200

£170 concessional price for having made a referral

Gift vouchers of £25 £50 or £100 are available

Principles

This is essential survival knowledge applicable for survival principles and kits/gear. This will be an in-the-field format, under cover by a warm fire. There will be Q&A time allocated, along with a full workbook provided at the end of the workshop.

Presentation

This is a mixture of presentation of kits with detailed explanation, showing the principles behind why we have the choices of kits. An opportunity to try on equipment, with hands on learning.

Practical

This is an opportunity to put the theory into practice. To test out cutting tools, various emergency shelters, fire starting, simple navigation and search and rescue scenarios.

The handout booklet and certificate of attendance will be given at the end of the day.

Taster Day
Survival Workshop

This day workshop is suitable for regular outdoor goers: day hikers, kayakers, mountain bikers and overnight backpackers….essentially anybody who enjoys the great outdoors.

The workshop is designed to give you an overview of the fundamental principles of survival scenarios - how they happen, typical situations and how to avoid. The workshop is twofold: simple survival principles and designing your survival kit for your personal needs, body type, situation and experience.

This will be in an in-the-field format, with theory module covering simple principles, presentation of kits and practical applications.

Cost: £100

£85 concessional price for having made a referral

Vouchers are available

Time: 10am - 5pm-ish

(approximately six hours tuition)

Location: Alfriston, East Sussex.

Date: 17th January 2026

Contact: info@survivalcraft.uk or 07775 938 842

Additional learning

Practical Plus

10:00am to 5pm

A dedicated day to practical exercises and emergency scenarios. An in-the-field experience and opportunity to develop the practical applications further under guided instruction. To test out equipment and personal boundaries.

Overnight

Weekend overnight in-the-field training – 10:30am Saturday to 3pm Sunday.

An overnight stay using survival gear, of which some gear may be provided. A full list of required equipment will be provided on booking. An extension of the practical skills, with additional experience of testing out sleeping in survival gear.

Personal Tuition

10:30am to 5pm

One on one, or 2/3 students at a time, for more personalised tuition. This is only available for students having completed the full three days.

  • A clear understanding of the core principles of survival – what items, knowledge and skill sets will keep you alive in a non-urban environment.

  • What survival kit/gear is suitable for you.

  • How to be more discerning when it comes to information on these topics – what really is appropriate for a survival situation and what is simply entertainment and merely stimulating information.

  • You will have more confidence when venturing out into the great outdoors in whatever capacity – losing that fear, yet respecting the elements of nature.

  • What procedures you will need to go through in terms of priorities and areas of where sense of urgency needs applying.

  • A degree of dexterity skills when handling cutting tools, firecraft and emergency shelters.

  • An opportunity to experiment with various choices of kits, equipment – saving you money and effort.

  • An insight into making repairs to kits – fix n mend at home and in the field.

  • A stimulus to help you branch out to associated topics of survival such as the psychology of survival, advanced navigation, search and rescue, foraging, advanced first aid, nature study, ancient crafts & bushcraft, ad infinitum.

  • Make connections with like-minded people who share these interests.

What you will gain from the course?

“An amazing weekend. I now feel so confident to venture out to more isolated areas”

Sarah, Lewes