“That we do not know, we cannot understand, therefore we do not value.”
What We Do
Pippin & Gile, is a friendly, professional business offering high quality bushcraft courses that help you learn more about the world outdoors and have fun doing it.
Whether you want to come along for just a day or spend an entire weekend learning practical new skills and developing a deeper understanding of the world around you, we’ve got courses that will challenge you, delight you and leave you feeling confident, energised and better connected with nature.
Our hope is that you’ll leave our beautiful woodlands with a fresh perspective and a brand-new way of looking at the world. We promise a walk through the woods will never be the same again.
So Why Us?
Highly trained and enthusiastic instructors
We’re extremely well versed in all things wilderness and our mission is to pass that extensive know-how and insight onto you in an enjoyable, hands-on and practical way.
Pippin & Gile founder, Lizzy Maskey, has vast knowledge of bushcraft and the outdoors. Lizzy and her enthusiastic team know how to deliver an experience that will stay with you for a lifetime.
Ever since she was a child fascinated with fire and foraging, bushcraft has been her way of life. Since gaining her IOL Bushcraft Competency certificate, and becoming a full-time instructor in 2014 Lizzy has traversed the globe honing her skills and testing herself in the wilderness.
From paddling across Scotland in a packraft to leading expeditions in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Thailand and Peru, Lizzy has gathered a wealth of experience. She’s cycled from London to Kazakhstan, taken a cyber tracking trip to South Africa, and done the assessment in the UK too, gaining a high level 2 in both countries. She did a two year mentorship programme with Dave Watson of Woodland Survival Craft, cementing her knowledge of UK woodlands still further. She ran workshops at the inaugural gathering of The Wilderness Bushcraft Society, and for The Big Skill. The UK is her home turf and she’s explored extensively within in too, living from Abergavenny to Skye, and many places in between.
Alongside Lizzy is a team of professional and enthusiastic instructors who are all also students of nature. At Pippin & Gile there’s an understanding that the wilderness is full of knowledge ready to be learnt. The learning process never ends and we aspire to instil that curiosity and spirit of inquiry into all of our Bushcraft Courses.
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- Teaching on a weekend course
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- Demonstrating Fire by Friction
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- Collecting Apples for Perserving
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- Tracking trip in South Africa
Stunning Woodland Locations
All our courses take place in handpicked private woodlands. Our South London Wood is situated on the Surrey, Croydon boundary on gorgeous greenbelt land only a stone’s throw, but feeling like a million miles, from the City of London. We also offer private courses in Gilestone Wood, situated on a secluded farm in the picturesque Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park.
Read more about our woodlands here.
Focus on customer experience
Our courses are aimed at developing your skills and understanding how to work with the resources nature provides in a practical and enjoyable way, with all levels of expertise welcome. We don’t run a boot camp, nor do we dance around the fire at night. Each carefully crafted course is the result of years of practical knowledge, teaching and instruction. We deliver experiences that challenge you and allow you to explore new skills in a safe and welcoming environment.
We ensure your experience doesn’t have to end when the course does. We know the knowledge you gain will last a lifetime and you will never walk through the woods in the same way again. If you have any questions about what you learnt, be that tomorrow, next month or in ten years time, we’re always happy to talk it through, just pick up the phone and say hello.
