How do you build your fire?
Practical, beautiful and efficient an upside down fire could save time and effort when setting up your site. This tried and tested method of fire-lighting produces a fire that can burn for hours once lit, with no additional poking and prodding. An upside down fire...
How effective are your compressions?
Real-time, intelligent and confidence building; our QCPR equipped resuscitation Anne’s give immediate feedback on your CPR effectiveness, helping you to adjust your compressions for a better patient outcome. The idea of using external chest compressions to restart a...
Do you know your Rights of Way?
Tiny green dashes, crosses and diamonds wind their way across OS maps through forests and towns, across rivers and fields… but what do they mean? These public Rights of Way (RoW) are historic routes that people have used for centuries to get from one place to another....
Why choose a regulated first aid provider?
Professional, high quality and regulated; our first aid training covers HSE requirements whilst ensuring due diligence is already done for employers. Since 2013 the onus has been on employers to work out what first aid training is required in their workplace, to...
Igloo or Quinzee?
By Sam Haywood. As I write this many people are saying goodbye to the remnants of snow which has blanketed much of the UK over the last week or two. For us it is only now visible coating the tops of the tallest hills. While snow is understandably a nuisance to many...
Sharing your space with nature
By Nicky Hedgecock. The drive to be out in the garden isn’t always as strong this time of year, when you look out of the window at the, often, gloomy weather. Once you are out there, however, digging, sweeping, composting and pruning, you soon warm up and appreciate...
Collecting natural tinders for firelighting
By Nicky Hedgecock. Autumn and early winter is a great time for collecting your natural tinders while you are out foraging nature’s bounty. It is very quick and easy to light your fire or stove with a match and firelighter and, at times, the best way to go, but it is...
The right knife for you….
By Sam Hayward. The pursuit of the ‘perfect’ knife is arguably a never-ending one, as I have found. There is a lot more to it than one may realise, with the added factor that everyone will have their own individual preferences. I’ve been acquiring them now for over 20...
Natural art with autumn’s bounty.
By Sam Hayward. I often find when chatting to others that autumn is a bit of a ‘marmite’ season – you generally like it…. or you don’t. I can understand the perspective of those who are not too keen, viewing it as the prequel to winter, with daylight hours reducing,...
Adaptation, Evolution and Quality
By Philip Clegg. The outdoor sector has been very badly hit by the restrictions in place because of the pandemic. At Learn Outdoors and the Wilderness Project we have only been trading again for a few weeks after losing our entire spring and summer season and we are...