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Welcome to the WildWise website
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver

If you enjoy watching Ray Mears on TV and would love to have your own outdoor experience in bushcraft and survival skills or to encounter our native wildlife, then read on! Our bushcraft courses or camps on Dartmoor could be just the thing you've been looking for.

Established in 1999, WildWise deliver an exciting, diverse programme of courses, camps and events for adults, children and families to inspire and inform you about the natural world. WildWise are specialists, creating exceptional opportunities in bushcraft and outdoor education for the general public, environmental organisations, corporate and private client groups.

WildWise's nationally acclaimed courses and events for children and adults have been seen on BBC's Blue Peter, Heaven & Earth, Truth About Food and also ITV's Country Lives.

Our range of expertise and experience includes:
COURSES, HOLIDAYS and EVENTS - 2008 programme > for the general public.
EDUCATION > events and programmes for schools and youth groups
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING - 2008 programme > courses for teachers, rangers, outdoor leaders, play workers etc.
CORPORATE > events and teambuilding

WildWise courses and camps are based on our specialist skills and knowledge of bushcraft, fieldcraft, wildlife, nature awareness, woodcraft, personal development, and storytelling. We work with our own experienced and professional team together with a national network of specialists to provide courses and events of the highest quality.

Key features of WildWise events include direct, hands-on experiences, skills development, recreational learning and environmental appreciation. The challenging and creative opportunities we offer can expand individual and corporate understanding of the value and meaning of our relationship to the natural world.

Events in our brochure are held in inspiring and beautiful Devon locations that are teeming with wildlife. We also travel nationwide, by arrangement.

Chris Salisbury, WildWise director and senior instructor, writes regular articles for various publications, including the Bushcraft and Survival Skills Magazine. Click here to see his latest article.

 

"You are a really talented company filling a very important niche. Discovering WildWise has been one of the real finds of the project"
- Jill Attenborough, Project Manager for "Wild About Woods" Project, The Woodland Trust

"I have been fortunate to travel all over the world and stay in some of the finest hotels, but they are quite pointless compared with last weekend's camp. To spend a weekend like that was very important, very special for me." - Angela Forbes

 

 

bushcraft • kids camps • family events • wild food • canoeing • wildlife • storytelling
 
OUR AIM - WildWise is committed to communicating the value of the natural world as an essential, accessible and enjoyable resource for all.
WildWise Limited, Foxhole, Dartington, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EB