Chief Instructor, Ian, is a former British Army Officer, and has trained and led soldiers and officer cadets across mountains, jungles, bushland, desert and forest, as well as working as a primary school teacher in the Peruvian Andes and a children’s author and bushcraft instructor here in the UK.

Ashley, lead instructor at our Godstone site, picked up her passion for the great outdoors and her skill-set of survival and bushcraft techniques, serving with Aberdeen Universities Officers’ Training Corps, while her instructional talents come from her profession as a science teacher.

Coming from a therapeutic background, Shane brings to the Bushcamp extensive experience working with young people, mentoring and facilitating in the woods, for schools, families, local authorities, woodland communities and bushcraft centres. If he is not whittling spoons he will tell you a story, if you ask, as he is also a trained Oral Storyteller.

Dave is another team member to have honed his outdoor skills as an instructor with Aberdeen Officers’ Training Corps. When he's not tending the fires at Big Hat, he's working in Edinburgh or dreaming up backpacking trips in the Scottish Highlands.