The Worcestershire Woodland Project (WWP) offers participants an opportunity to experience working in an outdoor woodland setting, learning new skills, building social skills and raising levels of confidence. The project aims to equip participants with vocational skills to use in the workplace whilst also involving people in conservation work and improving levels of physical and mental health and wellbeing through the use of social forestry. Activities range from coppicing, weaving fences, pole lathe wood turning, cooking on camp fires to walking through the woodland learning the history and dynamics of the woodland environment. Our base camp is in Churchill Wood, Spetchley. Materials are sourced from the wood itself.







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Sunday, 13 January 2013

Bushcraft at Ribbesford Woods

It was another great day Friday in the excellent company of Sarah, Birch and Rob from Step Out Outdoor Learning http://www.step-out.eu/

After warming ourselves up with some hunting for dry twigs to start our fire (not so easy with the weather we've had) we sampled Birch's tea making skills before moving on to some real Bush craft activities.

Rob and Birch led a group of enthusiastic WWP participants in a shelter building activity, whilst Sarah taught other participants how to make some flat bread to cook over the fire and knife skills to strip bark, making sticks clean and safe to use as cooking utensils.

The raucous laughter coming from the shelter building gang led the others to see what they were up to! They certainly seemed to have had fun and had built a great shelter. Freddie took the testing phase very seriously and it looked like he had bedded down for the night! Whilst Christopher and Jason decided to see if they could fit both of them in there! I don't think I've ever seen the whole gang laughing so much.

We had such a great, fun day and as usual learnt so much that we can use again. We look forward to seeing the Step Out team very soon.

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