Overnight Bushcraft & Survival Course in Surrey – Spend a Night in the Woods This November

Overnight Bushcraft & Survival Course in Surrey – Spend a Night in the Woods This November

7–8 November 2026 | Dorking, Surrey | Adults 18+ | £95 per person

What if, instead of spending another November weekend indoors, you spent it learning various bushcraft & survival skills, like how to sharpen a bushcraft knife, crafting pot hangers from sticks, learning different fire lighting skills and cooking communally around a campfire?

This November, Wildeye Adventures, in connection with Down in the Woods are in the woods for a 26-hour Overnight Bushcraft & Survival Course in Surrey – Spend a Night in the Woods This November.

From 10am on Saturday 7 November until 12pm on Sunday 8 November 2026, we'll be based within a beautiful private woodland with a lake, learning practical wilderness skills, preparing food together around the fire and camping among the trees.

You don't need to be an experienced camper or survival expert to join us.

Beginners are very welcome.

Overnight Bushcraft & Survival Course in Surrey – Spend a Night in the Woods This November

Why Learn Bushcraft in November?

Summer might be the obvious season for camping, but autumn brings an entirely different atmosphere to the woods.

The changing landscape, cooler temperatures, early sunset and long evening around the fire make November a wonderful time to experience bushcraft.

It's also when practical outdoor skills really begin to make sense.

Lighting and maintaining a fire feels considerably more rewarding when the temperature drops. Understanding your equipment, keeping yourself comfortable and learning how to work with changing weather conditions all become part of the experience.

Bushcraft isn't about fighting against nature. It's about learning how work in collaboration with nature. Becoming more knowledgeable, capable and comfortable within it.

What Will You Learn?

Throughout the weekend, we'll explore a variety of practical bushcraft and survival skills.

🔥 Fire Lighting Techniques

Learn different methods of creating fire, understand suitable natural materials and develop the skills needed to establish and maintain a fire safely.

🪵 Bushcraft Knife Skills & Woodcraft

Discover how to use a bushcraft knife safely and how to sharpen it effectively while practising practical woodland skills and techniques. You'll also have the opportunity to carve a pot hanger from Hazel wood.

⛺ Shelter Building / Camp Creation

At the start of the course, you'll have the opportunity to pitch up personal tents. Camping is based inside the woods. For guests wishing to hire a hammock and tarp for the experience - you'll be shown the correct way to put it up safely and securely.

💧 Water Filtration

Water is one of our most important survival priorities. You'll learn how improvised water filters can be constructed and explore the difference between filtering and making water safe to drink.

🪢 Bushcraft Knots

Learn useful knots and understand how they can be applied to shelters, tarps, campcraft and other outdoor situations.

🌳 Useful Trees, Plants & Fungi

The woodland is your classroom. We'll look at some of the trees, plants and fungi we encounter and explore their traditional and practical uses.

🥖 Survival Bread

We'll also have the opportunity to make simple survival-style bread and experience another element of traditional outdoor cooking.

🐟 Trout Ponassing Demonstration - Ponassing is an ancient indigenous cooking technique using stick to secure the fillet and slow cook over a camp fire - Instructor to share a demonstration with trout fish. Guests are welcome to try and eat the fish for dinner.

Most importantly, this is a hands-on course. Bushcraft is best learnt by doing, experimenting and getting involved.

Cooking Together Around the Campfire

As Saturday afternoon turns into evening, we'll gather around our main communal campfire.

Together, the group will prepare a warming vegetable stew and survival bread with guidance and support from the instructor.

The evening meal is included in your course price.

There's something wonderfully simple about preparing food outdoors and sitting around a fire after spending the day learning together.

The course is otherwise self-catered, so participants should bring a packed lunch for Saturday, breakfast for Sunday morning and any additional snacks and drinks they would like.

Personal campfires are not permitted within this particular woodland, so we'll maintain one main communal campfire for the group. Participants are welcome to bring their own camping stove for personal cooking and hot drinks.

Spend the Night in a Private Surrey Woodland

After our evening around the fire, it's time to settle into camp.

The course takes place within a large private woodland in Dorking, Surrey, with a beautiful lake on site.

There is a basic eco toilet available within the woodland, but otherwise expect a simple woodland camping experience.

You can bring your own tent, sleeping bag and camping equipment.

Or, if you'd like to try something different, you can sleep bushcraft-style.

Hammock and tarp sets can be hired for an additional £20 per person.

Full joining information, recommended clothing, equipment and a kit list will be provided before the course so you'll know exactly what you need to bring.

More Than a Survival Course

Learning practical skills is a big part of the weekend but bushcraft offers something else too.

Modern life doesn't often give us 26 hours surrounded by trees.

There are phones, emails, traffic, deadlines and constant distractions competing for our attention.

Spending a night in the woods creates an opportunity to slow things down and tune back into nature.

You begin noticing smaller things: the changing light through the trees, the sound of the fire, the temperature dropping after sunset and the woodland becoming quiet as darkness arrives.

At the same time, you're learning practical skills that can build self-reliance, independence, problem-solving and a greater understanding of the natural world.

Sometimes reconnecting with nature doesn't require travelling halfway around the world.

It can begin with spending one night in the woods.

Do I Need Bushcraft Experience?

Absolutely not.

This course is suitable for adults aged 18+ and previous bushcraft experience is not required.

You don't need to consider yourself particularly adventurous, either.

Come with a friend or partner, or simply come along on your own and meet other people around the campfire.

All we ask is that you arrive prepared for an outdoor November weekend and bring a willingness to learn, get involved and embrace your wild side.

Overnight Bushcraft & Survival Course – November 2026

📅 Dates: Saturday 7 – Sunday 8 November 2026

⏰ Times: 10am Saturday – 12pm Sunday

📍 Location: Private woodland, Dorking, Surrey

🌿 Age: Adults 18+

💷 Course price: £95 per person

🏕️ Hammock & tarp hire: £20 per person

🥘 Saturday evening communal meal: Included

🚻 Facilities: Basic woodland eco toilet

🔥 Experience required: None – beginners welcome

The course is run by Wildeye Adventures in association with Down in the Woods.

Ready to Spend a Night in the Woods?

Spaces are limited and early booking is recommended.

If you'd like to join us this November, find out more about our adult bushcraft and survival courses and get in touch with Wildeye Adventures to reserve your place.

Adult Bushcraft & Survival Courses:www.wildeyeadventures.com/survival-courses-adults

Booking & Payment Details

To reserve your spaces, please email Yara. You'll be required to complete a booking form, which includes a risk assessment. Once your booking form and payment have been received. You'll be sent a Course Information document - containing relevant details and useful information.

Email: contact@wildeyeadventures.com

🌿 Learn practical skills.

🔥 Gather around the fire.

🏕️ Sleep among the trees.

🌳 Reconnect with the nature

Wildeye Adventures – Embrace Your Wild Side.