Friday Night Forge
A creative, social, and fun evening course with food, drink and some hammer swinging!
Available spots
Friday Night Forge Welcome Folks! Our new evening mini course where participants can come along and have and escape the everyday, hang out with other like-minded creative folks and try your hand at forging. Participants will be taught under the watchful eye of instructors to produce the evenings scheduled project from start to finish. Afterwards you can enjoy a bottle of local origin and continue to enjoy the snacks provided round a fire pit before our night comes to a close. Our Friday night sessions are just as much about having a laugh and bad jokes as having a go at an integral part of our craft industry. So come along on a Friday that works for you re-set, get creative and hit some steel in good company The Forge is based in rural South Oxfordshire on the edge of the Chiltern Hills and is a great place to escape and reset in this fast passed world. The forge is a fantastically creative environment where you get a chance to heat, hammer and hit hot steel to make something from scratch. Each project is designed for complete beginners and will be taught in a relaxed manner... although some heavy hitting may occasionally be required. Sculpt and Sip Forge candle holders for the garden in this evening of scrolling and bending steel! finish with a small glass of local wine! Bottle & Brew Forge a Bottle opener with personalised initials and a enjoy a bottle of local Mead or Cider! Forge & Feast Forge a pair of stainless-steel BBQ skewers and create a simple fire cooked meal afterwards with your skewers and a locally brewed beverage - Late Dinner Provided Fire & Forge Create a decorative fire rake/poker using traditional techniques to produce your very own fire side companion. Celebrate your creation with a bottle round the fire alongside your fellow fire starters. -Arrive at 6pm forging will commence after a safety talk until latest 9pm when we will crack open a cold one! A relaxed end time from 9:30pm-10pm -Tea, Coffee, Hot choc and snacks provided -You will be emailed further information -Please ware trousers and clothes you don’t mind getting very mucky -Boots, old trainers, no open toed shoes! -Alcohol and non- alcoholic beverage are provided, one bottle/glass per person, with yourself as mediator. -Snack food is provided- M&S snacks, the good stuff! - unless otherwise stated on the course description. Food will be vegetarian and non vegie, please inform us upon booking if vegan/gluten free. However, we cannot cater for those with severe allergies.
Contact Details
Forge
Path Hill Farm, Reading, UK
07464114100
billy@billsworkshop.co.uk
Cancellation Policy
Course terms and conditions Our courses are designed to be fun, educational and a break from the outside world set in the Beautiful woodland forge. if you have any questions about how these courses run then do get in contact to discuss these queries, we are happy to help! These courses do involve an element of risk of injury. working with hot steel and tools can never be 100% safe, to take part in a bills workshop course you must acknowledge and agree to this danger. although we do pride our health and safety in the forge as well as fully necessary PPE, accidents can happen. Refunds if you have purchased a course but would like to cancel then please get in touch, if its 6 weeks or more before your course date then you will receive a 95% refund (or 90% for a private course) as transaction fees are deducted before the payment reaches our bank meaning these funds we never receive and therefore cannot refund the full value. if you wish to cancel a course within 6 weeks of the course then refunds are not possible as materials, time and resources have already gone into making the day possible. if you wish to 'change a date' for our courses or swap the person taking part then these are subject to availability and may incur additional admiration fees. Cancellations: Cancellations from or side do occasionally happen, these can be due to: -weather conditions (if stormy there is a strong chance we will cancel if we believe conditions may be dangerous in the woodland forge) these ca be very last minuet however we will always do our best to inform you of this possibility in advance -Illness, Unfortunately illness is something we all get every now and then. In the unfortunate case that your course is cancelled due to staff illness we will work with you to re-arrange your booking -lack off bookings, as a small company we need our courses to be more than 50% full to make them viable to run. We may inform you of this cancellation with up to 7 days notice before the course. Please get i touch or check the website to see weather your course will run, if the date is out of stock then it will be going ahead. If it is not out of stock you can always get in touch to see weather it will be or not. In either case your course will be re-located to the next available course date you can make or we will work with you to find an available date or solution, we recommend if you are travelling large distances to join to book accommodation with free cancelation.