The Woodland Blacksmithing Course
Fires and Forging, Spend a day in the woods learning both traditional blacksmithing and bushcraft!
Available spots
Get out the house and down to the woods for a day of fires, forges and primitive weapons! An exciting day learning traditional Blacksmithing and Bushcraft skills surrounded by historic woodland in the beautiful Chiltern Hills! With a full day of activity’s it’s a packed day of hammer swinging and fire lighting where they will walk away with your own hand made goods. Hosted by Bill's Workshop in Partnership with Pathhill Outdoors this course will be located at Pathhill’s Woodland Forge in South Oxfordshire. Parking is easily available onsite with hot drinks and snacks provided throughout the day but please bring your own lunch and refillable water bottle. This course allows for lots of direct teaching time with a small and focused number of people on each Activity allowing you to get fantastic personal tuition from our team and have the best time possible! The Days Overview: Please arrive for a 9:30am start where you will venture into the woods to meet the team and get to know the workshop. After you have a hot drink, we will divide into two groups that will be guided though the morning session by an expert member of the team learning Blacksmithing or Bushcraft. Bushcrafters will learn fire lighting techniques as well as make their own primitive weapon; the atl atl! With the Blacksmiths forging their very own fire pokers and Fire steels. After lunch the groups will swap activities and by the end of the day walk away with a new set of bushcraft and fire lighting skills as well as your very own hand forged fire poker and key ring! -You may will be emailed further documentation and information upon purchase to fill out and return, please check junk mail regally for the next 7 days. -Private bookings of up to 4 people are available for this course, please get in touch to arrange. -All safety equipment provided -Over 18s only -For this course you do need to be reasonably fit and healthy as it is hot and hard work throughout the day on your feet. -If you have any concerns or disability, please get in contact to discuss what arrangements can be made to make the course more accessible for you and answer any questions -Please wear full length trousers (an old pair of jeans are ideal) and clothes you don’t mind getting dirty as well as old trainers or boots - no open toed shoes, flip flops or sliders. -Please view additional terms and conditions at the bottom of the webpage page under: terms and conditions.
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.