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WildWise Events Key features of our events include direct, hands-on experiences, skills development, recreational learning and environmental appreciation.
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WildWise run fabulous outdoor events for all ages in Devon: day courses and camps: bushcraft, canoeing, nature awareness, wildlife and storytelling plus training courses for outdoor professionals. WildWise courses and camps are based on our specialist skills and knowledge of bushcraft, survival skills, 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 - from kids camps and family holidays to bushcraft and environmental education training. 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. Our events are held in inspiring and beautiful Devon locations that are teeming with wildlife. We also travel nationwide, by arrangement. 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 our bushcraft courses or camps on Dartmoor, on the beautiful river Dart, and on the spectacular South Devon coastline, could be just the thing you've been looking for!

Join us for wild adventures 🌱✨🐺 see our events calendar by following the link in our bio or heading to wildwise.co.uk 🏔️
15/10/2026

Join us for wild adventures 🌱✨🐺 see our events calendar by following the link in our bio or heading to wildwise.co.uk 🏔️

Upcoming event highlights ✨ head to wildwise.co.uk or DM or Comment for a website link 🌱🏔️
09/10/2026

Upcoming event highlights ✨ head to wildwise.co.uk or DM or Comment for a website link 🌱🏔️

🌿 We’re hiring! WildWise Seasonal Assistant – Devon 🌿Love the outdoors? Enjoy connecting with nature and with others? Lo...
03/10/2026

🌿 We’re hiring! WildWise Seasonal Assistant – Devon 🌿
Love the outdoors? Enjoy connecting with nature and with others? Love camping and making a difference? Join us as a volunteer Seasonal Assistant (March–November, ~60–75 days)!

👣 Your role:

✨ Support our camps & outdoor learning events
✨ Lead cooking & meal prep for groups
✨ Manage equipment and camp logistics
✨ Bring cheer + energy in all conditions
✨ Occasional office/store shifts – back-office tasks & public-facing duties

🌱 What you’ll gain:

✨Free place on Call of the Wild Outdoor Leadership Programme (worth £3,150)
✨Free WildWise short professional courses (worth £1,600)
✨Bespoke bushcraft, campcraft & canoe training from expert practitioners
✨Training includes 2-day ITC Certificate in Outdoor First Aid & certificated safeguarding

Total training value: £4,750

Unforgettable hands-on field experience

📍 Devon (remote sites – vehicle needed)
📅 Seasonal, part-time/freelance: 60–75 days Mar–Nov

👉 Apply: CV + covering letter → [email protected]

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The best place to be 🌳
11/09/2026

The best place to be 🌳

“Natural navigation is the rare art of finding your way using nature; everything outdoors is a clue, every plant, animal...
31/08/2026

“Natural navigation is the rare art of finding your way using nature; everything outdoors is a clue, every plant, animal, cloud or star is a sign and part of our map” – Tristan Gooley

Sharpen your navigation skills with WildWise. Designed for adventurers, outdoor enthusiasts, and nature lovers, this course blends the art of natural navigation with traditional map and compass techniques.

Learn to interpret the landscape using environmental cues such as the sun, stars, plants, and terrain, while gaining confidence in reading topographical maps and mastering compass bearings. Guided by an experienced instructor, this hands-on course offers practical exercises and immersive scenarios to enhance your natural awareness and ensure you only get lost if you really want too.

Whether you’re hiking remote trails, exploring gentle countryside, or simply seeking to reconnect with nature’s rhythms, this course equips you with the tools and insights to navigate with confidence and skill. Perfect for beginners and those seeking to refresh their knowledge

DM or comment for direct link to learn more or you can email [email protected] to sign up directly ✨🧭🏔️

Wolf Pack Adventures! Places can be saved for next year just email info@wildwise.co.uk 🗓️✨🏔️
29/08/2026

Wolf Pack Adventures! Places can be saved for next year just email [email protected] 🗓️✨🏔️

Often, when we talk about ‘nature connection’ or Deep Ecology, we miss out the human species. And yet here we are, in an...
24/08/2026

Often, when we talk about ‘nature connection’ or Deep Ecology, we miss out the human species. And yet here we are, in an animal body, born of evolution just like the oak, the lizard or the chimpanzee. For generations we have distanced ourselves from our own ‘deep ecology’. Today there are exciting new developments – in fields as diverse as dance, science, health, leadership and contemporary ritual – that can help us ‘re-member’ our selves. Waking up our embodied awareness also gives us and our participants access to deeper connection, somatic intelligence, health and creativity. Toning these muscles of sensate awareness takes practice and is different for each individual, so this introductory workshop offers simple tools, exercises and inquiry questions to tailor to your own work setting.

DM or Comment for more details or head to our website wildwise.co.uk 🌱

Sun time learning 🌞
24/08/2026

Sun time learning 🌞

‘The shortest distance between one human being and another….is a story’Rabbi Shem TovOVERVIEWA foundation in telling tra...
20/08/2026

‘The shortest distance between one human being and another….is a story’

Rabbi Shem Tov

OVERVIEW
A foundation in telling traditional stories.

Narrative skills are an increasingly valued part of an educators toolkit, applied to great effect in all sorts of settings and with a diverse range of client-groups. The craft of storytelling can be broken down into some fundamentals which once distinguished can assist the rapid improvement for those wishing to make use of it either as professional storytellers, or to blend in with presentation skills they already have.

Finding the right story at the right time is also a key area that the course will consider as well offering some coaching for individual work. Participants will then emerge from this enlivening and empowering process with tales to tell, and more confidence and understanding of how, why and where to tell stories.

Head to wildwise.co.uk or DM or Comment for direct link 🕯️

For adventurous teens aged 13-16 years, offering a unique opportunity to learn or hone essential survival skills, connec...
17/08/2026

For adventurous teens aged 13-16 years, offering a unique opportunity to learn or hone essential survival skills, connect with nature, and make lifelong friends.


Why choose Forest Outlaws?

There are plenty of studies evidencing the well being benefits of nature connection e.g. increased resilience, more regulated emotion and the ability to relax, reduced depression, anxiety, and stress however according to new research from the RSPB and the University of Essex as children get older and move into teenage years their connectedness with nature drops away and in particular mid teenagers feel less connected to nature than any other group.

WildWise aims to instill a love of nature from an early age and to sustain and nurture that interest over the years by offering fun and challenging programmes that support that connection into adulthood and beyond. Our Forest Rangers camp is our ever popular nature immersion camp on Dartmoor for 8-12 year olds. This new Forest Outlaws programme aims to continue that journey offering activities, skills and challenges and a depth of experience geared towards older children.

DM or Comment for more details or head to our website wildwise.co.uk ✨

Beautiful wild camp days 💚
17/08/2026

Beautiful wild camp days 💚

We have a host of nourishing and nature based events for you this August, September and beyond 💫DM or comment for a dire...
17/08/2026

We have a host of nourishing and nature based events for you this August, September and beyond 💫

DM or comment for a direct link to our calendars of head to the link in our bio or wildwise.co.uk 🐺🏔️🛶

Wild Time programmes offer girls and young women an opportunity to ‘grow’ alongside experienced and qualified outdoorswo...
03/07/2026

Wild Time programmes offer girls and young women an opportunity to ‘grow’ alongside experienced and qualified outdoorswomen to learn bushcraft skills, build confidence, develop a sense of self and have fun outdoors.

✨Why is this important now?✨

Young people’s mental health and wellbeing has never been so important – we hear much about the crisis of mental health among teenagers and recent UK statistics (young minds UK) show just how big the problem. This is mirrored globally. The challenges and worries of Gen Z in some ways (e.g. social media, climate change, covid) may be unique but these sit alongside the typical developmental challenges which come with this stage of life.

✨What will we be doing?✨

For this camp we will bring a group of girls together to learn new skills and face challenges in the wild; to explore the land by day and night, adventure across moor, woods and rivers to learn more about who they are and what they want from their lives on the threshold of young adulthood.

The adventure includes inner and outdoor challenges, bushcraft, wilderness survival skills, group games, wild walks, environmental art and crafts, and culminates in a final quest! We will cook on open fires, sleep under the stars, share stories as well as just hang out together in the peace and beauty of the wilderness.

✨How will the camp be?✨

This is a relatively small programme – typically for between 8-12 girls. This encourages the group to gel and helps the participants to feel supported and develop a sense of community.

✨Where will we be?✨

Our private venue is a wild riverside meadow on Dartmoor near to Newbridge. The facilities are basic; shelter and toilet tents are temporarily erected for the duration of the camp. Full details and directions will be made available after booking.

Comment or DM for the direct link or head to our website or bio wildwise.co.uk 🌱

A beautiful time spent with ~ we have lots more summer events for family and children ~ just head to our website calen...
03/07/2026

A beautiful time spent with ~ we have lots more summer events for family and children ~ just head to our website calendar to explore 🌟

Some gorgeous upcoming events for you 💫🛶🏔️
01/05/2026

Some gorgeous upcoming events for you 💫🛶🏔️

Wild nights out 💫
30/04/2026

Wild nights out 💫

Wildwise goodies this spring 🌱🌟🏔️ comment or DM for a direct link to our calendar or head to WildWise.co.uk 🌲🌳🌲
14/04/2026

Wildwise goodies this spring 🌱🌟🏔️ comment or DM for a direct link to our calendar or head to WildWise.co.uk 🌲🌳🌲

Wild times to be had this Spring! Check our calendar for more details wildwise.co.uk 💫
10/04/2026

Wild times to be had this Spring! Check our calendar for more details wildwise.co.uk 💫

“This is an amazing experience which not only helps boost your child’s confidence, it will give them a life changing exp...
13/03/2026

“This is an amazing experience which not only helps boost your child’s confidence, it will give them a life changing experience which they will never forget, getting up close to nature in one of the most beautiful parts of the country. It is also led by a really impressive set of outdoor education leaders who clearly know exactly what they are doing. It is a great investment in your boy’s future.”

-Ed, Parent

What is Wolf Pack?

The ‘Wolf Pack’ programme recognises that boys of a certain age need challenges, adventures, risks and role-models. Our programme, this year delivered across 5 modules, facilitates a group of young men on a journey of discovery. Our aim is to make the most of what the natural world can offer with an exciting programme of meaningful activity that will develop skills, confidence and leadership potential.

We invite you to come and learn some new skills, expand your awareness, develop yourself, make new friends, tackle challenges, have some great fun, be surrounded by the power of nature, and maybe take an important step or two on the road towards manhood.

Participants will have the opportunity to get close to nature, to relax, grow up a bit, discover more about themselves, and be energised and inspired by some quality time out in the wilds of the Westcountry!

Where will we be?

The adventure begins with a walkabout on Dartmoor, travels the Dart river by Canadian canoe from Totnes towards the sea, visits the wild coastline (around East Prawle to East Portlemouth), includes a walkabout on Dartmoor and completes with an adventure in the woods in the Dart Valley.

Find out more wildwise.co.uk/wolf-pack-programme-for-boys or DM / Comment for a direct link 🌱🏔️🌟

Join us for a 3-part immersion into the enchantment of the dark, the forgotten realm of our contemporary existence. 🌓 Wh...
13/03/2026

Join us for a 3-part immersion into the enchantment of the dark, the forgotten realm of our contemporary existence.

🌓 What is Shadowlands?

This programme is a threshold-crossing immersion to aquaint ourselves with both the constituency of the night-time – its nocturnal denizens and its cosmic events – as well as meeting the shadow within.

On the night trail we will experience awe and wonder, fear and trepidation, insight and revelation and cultivate an apprenticeship with shadowlands to enable us to begin a courtship with the night, transforming it from persecutor to ally, finding sanctuary and refuge. The night gives us a ‘horizon further than we can see’ (David Whyte), and to romance the darkness, we will guide you with nightwalks and sit-spots, star treks and vigils, ceremony and enquiry, accompanied by a glittering treasure bag full of stories and songs and poems.

The course journey will invite a slowing down, learning night languages, and bring us out of our modern exile to take our rightful place as a constituent of the night.

✨ Who is the course aimed at?

This trail is not for everyone, it will be at times demanding and mysterious, playful and intimate, with an endgame of transformation, whether that be in your relationship to the dark, the wild or yourself. You will need resilience and self-responsibility, to navigate the physical challenges of nightwalking (no great distance, but rough paths), of adverse weather, initiative to engage with the core routines and assignments inbetween modules. Participants must therefore have good physical and mental health to meet the demands of the programme. A willingness to apprentice to Mystery and Uncertainty will definitely be an asset.

If you long for a deeper kinship to nature and community, and are willing to take risks and explore the frontier beyond your comfort zone, then this programme will perhaps align with your aspirations.

Support and provocation will come via your guides all of whom have crossed this threshold in different ways.

Wildwise.co.uk/shadowlands

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Join us for a 3-part immersion into the enchantment of the dark, the forgotten realm of our contemporary existence.What ...
02/03/2026

Join us for a 3-part immersion into the enchantment of the dark, the forgotten realm of our contemporary existence.

What is Shadowlands?
wildwise.co.uk/shadowlands

This programme is a threshold-crossing immersion to aquaint ourselves with both the constituency of the night-time – its nocturnal denizens and its cosmic events – as well as meeting the shadow within.

On the night trail we will experience awe and wonder, fear and trepidation, insight and revelation and cultivate an apprenticeship with shadowlands to enable us to begin a courtship with the night, transforming it from persecutor to ally, finding sanctuary and refuge. The night gives us a ‘horizon further than we can see’ (David Whyte), and to romance the darkness, we will guide you with nightwalks and sit-spots, star treks and vigils, ceremony and enquiry, accompanied by a glittering treasure bag full of stories and songs and poems.

The course journey will invite a slowing down, learning night languages, and bring us out of our modern exile to take our rightful place as a constituent of the night.

✨🌚🏔️

Spring is in the air 🌱🌷🌟
27/02/2026

Spring is in the air 🌱🌷🌟

The search for our Seasonal Assistants for 2026 has begun. The Seasonal Assistant role is an exciting opportunity for so...
30/10/2025

The search for our Seasonal Assistants for 2026 has begun.

The Seasonal Assistant role is an exciting opportunity for someone with enthusiasm for nature, outdoor life, and making a positive difference. Acting as a support to WildWise instructors, you will play a central part in the smooth running of camps and events. This position offers significant exposure to outdoor learning practice and is a valuable apprenticeship in environmental and outdoor education.

Seasonal Assistants get exchange places on Call of the Wild, our year long foundation programme in Outdoor leadership, plus access to all of our short training courses.

“There were so many highlights of my year as a Seasonal Assistant with WildWise that it’s impossible to choose – partaking in the Call of the Wild programme was a gift that changed the course of my life and who I am, for the infinite better! But the practical learning of being an assistant took the teaching to a much deeper level, as you work alongside a variety of experienced facilitators and get to see what makes it all work behind the scenes.”

Vanessa, Seasonal Assistant

Find out more 🌱 https://wildwise.co.uk/recruitment-news/ 🌱

Wildwise days 💚
30/10/2025

Wildwise days 💚

Our final Wild School day of the year in October half-term will be led by Chris Salisbury and, to celebrate, a special o...
21/10/2025

Our final Wild School day of the year in October half-term will be led by Chris Salisbury and, to celebrate, a special one off canoe event on 28th October is on offer. This event will (subject to favourable weather conditions) take place on the River Dart from/to Totnes. Contact us for more info here.

Our Wild School programme is aimed at 8-12 year olds looking for fun & adventures outdoors whilst learning bushcraft & survival skills. For the 28th October Chris Salisbury takes the helm. You can book your places online or via [email protected] 🛶🌳🦅

A school for 8-12 year old wild boys and girls who love days of challenges, skills and adventures.For kids who love mess...
16/10/2025

A school for 8-12 year old wild boys and girls who love days of challenges, skills and adventures.

For kids who love messing about in the woods with sticks, streams, mud, fires and a pinch of danger!

Our Wild School days are a series of varied and exciting bushcraft days – one per school holiday – starting at Easter. Each day will include various activities, drawing upon bushcraft, fieldcraft and nature awareness and include shelter-building, firecraft, campfire cookery, woodcraft, making traditional weapons, natural cordage and weaving, natural remedies, potions and lotions, wildlife identification, tracking & stealth.

Each day will be adapted to suit the age / skills / experience and interests of the children plus the level of challenge adapted so that those who have previously attended can develop and enhance their skills.

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We still have our October Wild School coming up during half/term 28th @ 10am~4pm in Dartington, Devon 🌱 full details on ...
13/10/2025

We still have our October Wild School coming up during half/term 28th @ 10am~4pm in Dartington, Devon 🌱 full details on our website wildwise.co.uk 🌱

Our very own Chris Salisbury, founder of , joins Clare Balding on her adventures down the river Dart. It is a beautiful...
05/03/2025

Our very own Chris Salisbury, founder of , joins Clare Balding on her adventures down the river Dart. It is a beautiful series where the river connects us back together again. Find it on (free to view) 🌱🛶🏔️

Our night paddles are returning as the land awakens ~ if you’d like to join us in the quiet of the night on the River Da...
21/02/2025

Our night paddles are returning as the land awakens ~ if you’d like to join us in the quiet of the night on the River Dart us [email protected] or head to wildwise.co.uk/night-paddle-on-the-river-dart/ 🔗in bio.

DATE & TIMES

All nightpaddle events take place on Saturday evenings. The timings are 6pm start to approximately 10-10.30pm finish with the exception of September paddles which start a little earlier at 5.30pm and end at 9.30-10pm. We offer one paddle per month between April and September.

2025 dates below:

April 12
May 17
June 7
July 12
Aug 09
Sept 13

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Only 2 more places available on our Call of the Wild Programme 2025! Follow the link in our bio to find out more 🏔️
18/02/2025

Only 2 more places available on our Call of the Wild Programme 2025! Follow the link in our bio to find out more 🏔️

Reach for the stars 😄💫
31/01/2025

Reach for the stars 😄💫

Land based learning & listening ✨
23/01/2025

Land based learning & listening ✨

Friendship found in forests 🌳 our Wolf Pack for boys course creates life long friendships with all things wild 🦅 head to...
20/01/2025

Friendship found in forests 🌳 our Wolf Pack for boys course creates life long friendships with all things wild 🦅 head to our website to find our more or follow the link in our bio🌟

Welcoming all to join us in being wisely wild ~ wildwise.co.uk find an opportunity that calls to your wild heart 🐦‍🔥✨🌲
15/01/2025

Welcoming all to join us in being wisely wild ~ wildwise.co.uk find an opportunity that calls to your wild heart 🐦‍🔥✨🌲

Gathering together for wild wisdom in 2025 ✨🌱🌲
12/01/2025

Gathering together for wild wisdom in 2025 ✨🌱🌲

An invitation to join our Live Online Q&A about this course ~ To save a place just email info@wildwise.co.uk and we will...
07/01/2025

An invitation to join our Live Online Q&A about this course ~ To save a place just email [email protected] and we will send you the link to join us 6pm Uk 8th January✨

The ‘Wolf Pack’ programme recognises that boys of a certain age need challenges, adventures, risks and role-models. Our programme facilitates a group of young men on a journey of discovery. Our aim is to make the most of what the natural world can offer with an exciting programme of meaningful activity that will develop skills, confidence and leadership potential.

Learn more via: wildwise.co.uk/wolf-pack-programme-for-boys/ or follow link in bio to visit our home page ✨

An invitation to join our Live Online Q&A about this course ~ To save a place just email info@wildwise.co.uk and we will...
30/12/2024

An invitation to join our Live Online Q&A about this course ~ To save a place just email [email protected] and we will send you the link to join us 6pm Uk 8th January✨

The ‘Wolf Pack’ programme recognises that boys of a certain age need challenges, adventures, risks and role-models. Our programme facilitates a group of young men on a journey of discovery. Our aim is to make the most of what the natural world can offer with an exciting programme of meaningful activity that will develop skills, confidence and leadership potential.

Learn more via: wildwise.co.uk/wolf-pack-programme-for-boys/ or follow link in bio to visit our home page ✨

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UNIT 15, THE C***R PRESS CENTRE, SHINNERS BRIDGE
DARTINGTON, Devon
TQ9 6TQ

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+441803868269

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