Our Next Courses

Our courses are on hold for the moment due to the Welsh Government COVID-19 restrictions and recommendations. We cannot run our courses and events again until the restrictions on both travel for non-essential purposes and congregations of small groups have been lifted.

We have had to postpone some courses during March, April and May 2020 but there WILL be substitute dates listed for later in 2020.  We have contacted all course participants who are affected by these postponements via email. If you have not heard from us then please get in touch directly.

Courses After Lockdown and Course Vouchers

It is pretty much a certainty that even when the restrictions start to ease in the UK, and particularly in Wales where most of our courses take place, we will have to make some amendments to how we run our courses.

The majority of our courses already take place on private land and/or away from the general public, and we can easily modify course content so that we stay outdoors for the entirety of the course and maintain social distancing.

We will create a new 2020 course calendar and publish it on this website AND contact all remaining 2020 course participants by email.

If you have a voucher that you have already redeemed then we will contact you once our updated 2020 course calendar is released.

Original Outdoors is an established outdoor training, activity and consultancy business based in North Wales on the borders of Snowdonia working across the U.K. and beyond. We specialise in training courses for foraging, bushcraft, navigation, survival training, tracking and other essential outdoor skills.

Using the experience of our team of instructors we also work with individuals, businesses, government agencies, emergency services and production companies on everything from bespoke skills training and consultancy to location scouting, TV appearances and other outdoor professional services.

We also work to provide structured outdoor skills and safety training under the Environmental Survival Training (EST) Framework, with training pathways in navigation, campcraft, survival, search operations and safety training for remote working. These courses are part of a progression from entry-level through to advanced instructor awards.

The training courses we run are mostly based in North Wales but we can offer our services for events across the U.K., as well as bespoke courses for groups, individuals or organisations.

One-Day, Two-Day and extended bushcraft courses in North Wales with one of the leading outdoor skills training providers in the U.K. Learn essential outdoor skills in the forests, fields and valleys of North Wales with experienced instructors.

Inland and coastal foraging courses in North Wales with experienced professional forager Richard Prideaux. The courses take place in the fields, valleys and woods of North East Wales and on the beaches and estuaries of Snowdonia.

Navigation training courses for all terrains in the UK based in the mountains and hills of North Wales and Snowdonia. Beginner to advanced navigation skills training courses with experienced and qualified instructors as part of the EST Framework.

One-Day, Two-Day and extended bushcraft courses in North Wales with one of the leading outdoor skills training providers in the U.K. Learn essential outdoor skills in the forests, fields and valleys of North Wales with experienced instructors.

Latest Blog Posts

We have been working in the wilds of North Wales, Snowdonia and the rest of the U.K. for over a decade and we regularly work with production companies, agencies and other media partners to provide location scouting, location safety and other services.

In support of our very popular UK Foraging and Wild Food courses we are slowly creating an in-depth guide to the edible wild plants, fungi, seaweeds and other wild things of the UK. This is a free online guide complete with videos and photos.

Our team of instructors use and abuse a wide range of outdoor clothing and equipment – and we write up our experiences as reviews for our blog and for other websites, including UKHillwalking.com and national magazines.