OUR CRAFT COURSES & WORKSHOPS

  • This is a rare opportunity to learn the basics of a skill that is rapidly...

    £140 including materials & home-made lunch
    7 February 2012
    9.30 - 4.30
    5 / 7
  • This new one-day course will help you to find out whether you want to keep goats.

    ...

    £70 including home-made lunch
    12 February 2012
    9.30 - 4.30
    7 / 12
  • This course is an introduction to the subject, with the emphasis on the practical aspects of bee...

    £80 including home-made lunch etc.
    19 February 2012
    10 - 4.30
    12 / 15
  • This one-day course aims to cover all the things you need to know before starting to keep a few...

    £80 to include lunch and all other refreshments
    26 February 2012
    10 - 4.30
    8 / 12
  • Felt making is an ancient textile process. Come and learn, in one day, how to transform washed...

    £75 including lunch - materials will cost £20, to be paid on the day
    3 March 2012
    10 - 4.30
    10 / 10
  • Be prepared for winter plumbing problems:  learn to change taps and washers, cure leaking...

    £80 including home-made lunch
    Mick Duke
    4 March 2012
    10 - 4.30
    10 / 12
  • This is a two-day course on traditional upholstery.  Bring your own furniture to be re-...

    £185 including home-made lunch, biscuits & cakes
    Gary Phipps
    8 March 2012 - 9 March 2012
    10.00 - 4.30
    9 / 9
  • This one-day course, for beginners and improvers, aims to help you to get the best from your...

    £75 including home-made lunch, biscuits & cakes
    Pauline Pears
    10 March 2012
    10 - 4.30
    11 / 16
  • This is a new course on learning how to work with Harris hawks, and maybe other hunting animals...

    £95 including home-made lunch
    17 March 2012
    9 - 4
    7 / 7
  • This course is an introduction to the subject, with the emphasis on the practical aspects of bee...

    £80 including home-made lunch etc.
    18 March 2012
    10 - 4.30
    6 / 15
  • Course content:

    • Scythe components
    • Sharpening using jig, hammer & stone...
    £65 including use of tools and all refreshments
    David Mason
    24 March 2012
    9 - 4
    7 / 10
  • Learn how to build your own garden walls, concrete reinforced foundations, bases for sheds,...

    £80 including home-made lunch etc.
    Mac Knox Weir
    31 March 2012
    9 - 4.30
    15 / 15
  • This one-day course is designed for those who want to keep a few hens in the garden.

    In...

    £70 including home-made lunch
    1 April 2012
    10 - 3.30
    3 / 15
  • A great introduction to stained glass of all sorts of colours and textures.  Make your very...

    £165 including materials & refreshments
    Anna Conti
    14 April 2012 - 15 April 2012
    10 - 4.30
    12 / 12
  • A one-day course on everything you need to know to start keeping a few sheep:  breeds,...

    £70 including home-made lunch
    21 April 2012
    10 - 4.30
    3 / 10
  • Wild Medicine

    This is an unusual chance to forage and make your own...

    £70 including home-made lunch. Materials £10 to be paid on the day
    22 April 2012
    9.30 - 5
    10 / 16
  • This course is designed for absolute beginners and includes :

    £80 including home-made lunch, biscuits and cakes
    28 April 2012
    10 - 4.30
    4 / 10
  • Identify, learn about, forage for and cook edible roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of...

    £60 including home made lunch, biscuits & cakes
    29 April 2012
    10.00 - 16.30
    14 / 20
  • An afternoon with Simon Cousins inspecting his beehives and learning how to find the queen,...

    £35 including tea
    29 April 2012
    2 - 4.30
    6 / 6
  • A one-day course to explain the principles of fruit tree pruning, the use of tools and how to...

    £80 including home-made lunch & all other refreshments
    5 May 2012
    10.00 - 16.30
    8 / 12
  • Spend an afternoon and evening learning about the life cycle and habits of badgers,  how to...

    £70 including high tea (salads, scones & cakes etc.)
    Bob Cowlin
    6 May 2012
    2.30 - 9.30 (depending on the badgers/weather)
    7 / 8
  • We shall be making a coracle (for you to take home) based on traditional Welsh styles, with the...
    £210 for two days, including lunch. Monday, the practice day, is an optional extra @ £50. Materials will come to about £70 and Alistair will take payment on the day.
    12 May 2012 - 14 May 2012
    9.00 - 5.00
    8 / 8
  • A new and unusual opportunity for all our beekeepers! 

    Come and learn how to rear...

    £140 for two days, including lunch and all refreshments
    19 May 2012 - 20 May 2012
    10 - 4.30
    15 / 15
  • Beginner’s Bread-making.  John Lawrence will be running an intensive one-day course to...

    £85 including lunch (materials £8, to be paid on the day)
    John Lawrence
    10 June 2012
    10 - 4.30
    9 / 10
  • A  storytelling weekend workshop for those wishing to tell stories to children or to other...

    £120, including home-made lunch
    Paul Jackson
    23 June 2012 - 24 June 2012
    10.00 - 16.30
    4 / 16
  • An afternoon with Simon Cousins inspecting his beehives and learning how to find the queen,...

    £35 including tea
    24 June 2012
    2 - 4.30
    2 / 6
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    A practical workshop for the tortoise owner or enthusiast.

    The workshop will...

    £70 including home-made lunch
    1 July 2012
    10 - 4.30
    0 / 12
  • A two-day photographic shoot in and around Assington Mill, led by professional photographer Jon...

    £165 for two days, including lunch & breakfast on Sunday
    Jon Sturdy
    7 July 2012 - 8 July 2012
    10 - 4.30
    2 / 8
  • Bestselling author, Victoria Connelly, teaches all you need to know to get that novel written...

    £85 including home-made lunch
    14 July 2012
    10 - 4.30
    1 / 10
  • Learn to make a clay oven for baking bread or pizzas just in time for the summer holidays....

    £80 including home-made lunch, biscuits & cakes
    Jon Dyvig
    21 July 2012
    10 - 4.30
    6 / 12