Bear Grylls Survival Academy at Kingswood
The world’s most recognisable face of survival and outdoor adventure brings the ultimate experience of self-rescue skills to our very own centres, delivered by his handpicked team of highly trained experts. This is a rare chance for lucky outdoor enthusiasts aged between 8 and 15 to be taught Bear’s extreme survival techniques on ‘the most challenging but empowering survival courses on the planet’.
Survival day courses - £59 per day (Ages: 8 to 13)
Location : Grosvenor Hall, Ashford, Kent or Isle of Wight, Bembridge
Including a combination of survival skills and adventure tasks set by Bear and his team, the course is designed to put 8 to 13 year olds to the test while having the opportunity to learn new skills, get outdoors and stay active, and to inspire the next generation of adventurers and explorers! Techniques taught will include learning how to build a fire, how to navigate in the wilderness, learning about natural foods, building a shelter, dynamic rescue techniques and learning Bear’s specific priorities of survival. It is the perfect opportunity to meet new friends, gain invaluable skills and share a truly memorable and fun experience.
A typical day
09.30 – 10.00 am: Welcome, introduction and ice breakers
10.00 – 10.45 am: Flinch response and self-defence activity session
10.45 – 11.00 am: Snack and drink
11.00 – 11:45 am: Fire lighting and escape/evade
11.45 – 12.30 pm: Shelter building
12.30 – 01.00 pm: Lunch
01.00 – 01.45 pm: Navigation (Orienteering BG style)
01.45 – 02.45 pm: Assault course
02.45 – 03.30 pm: Closing ceremony plus gross eat – would you have what it takes to survive?
Kit list
- Comfortable walking shoes
- Trousers or shorts
- Fleece/warm jumper
- Lightweight waterproof jacket
- One spare pair of shoes and socks
- Any personal medication
- Water bottle
As a father of three young boys I love sharing my survival techniques and watching them set off on their adventures together. It is not only exciting and fun but teaches them useful life and outdoor skills and what it really means to be able to look after yourself when the chips are down.”
Bear Grylls
More information via info@studyunitedkingdom.eu
Young Survivor Level 1 Award - £ 199 per course (Ages: 13 to 15)
Two days: from 10am on the first day to 4pm on the second day
This award is a great combination of potentially life-saving survival techniques and focuses on four different areas, the physical skills, mental, environmental and citizenship skills required for a rounded development. The award is designed to be the first step at enhancing a C.V. when looking for educational and employment opportunities.
Written by Bear and his close personal team to bring out the best in young children, the award focuses on leadership, communication, team work, bravery and all key elements of Bear’s ethos. Techniques taught will include learning priorities of survival, how to build and light a fire, how to navigate at day and night, wild foraging, building a shelter, extreme weather survival, stalking and knots. Throughout the award participants will epitomise Bear’s ethos of self-rescue by navigating through forests and challenging terrain back to civilisation.
Activities
- Water purification
- Stalking, camouflage and concealment, Route finding
- Wild foraging; Traps and snares and How to make a fire
- BG fitness and self-protection
- Expedition packing
- Ropes, knots and self-rescue; Rope skills – crossing difficult terrain
- Building emergency shelters and fire building
- Survival in extreme environments: water, desert, jungle and urban
- Natural navigation by day and night
- Dynamic self-rescue techniques
- Sleeping in self-made rescue shelters/canvas tents/inside (weather and time of year dependent)
All meals, selected kit and accommodation are included for the duration of the course. On completion of the award participants will receive a Bear Grylls Young Survivor Academy badge and certificate.
Locations for all Bear Grylls activities:
Grosvenor Hall is a complete indoor and outdoor education facility set in the grounds of a former manor house in Ashford, Kent. The hall, originally called Bockhanger Hall, was built by James S. Burra, an Ashford banker who was a keen collector of trees from around the world and some of his collection still stand in the impressive grounds. Before opening its doors as a Kingswood centre in 2010, the hall was most recently a police training centre.
Isle of Wight: The Isle of Wight centre covers 100 acres of beautiful fields and woodlands in a superb cliff top location, overlooking Whitecliff Bay, with direct beach access. Surrounded by Jurassic coastline designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, this is the most important area of Europe for dinosaur fossils, and with an abundance of estuaries and scattered sand dunes, and inland rivers crossing chalk downs, the surrounding landscape is waiting to be explored.
