About Serious Outdoor Skills

Serious Outdoor Skills offer a wide range of survival bushcraft and wilderness skills courses, canoeing events and navigation hikes. Our courses and events are aimed at catering for all of your outdoor needs whilst delivering professional, informative and fun tuition. We also believe that a hands on experience is the best way to learn so prepare to get stuck in. Our expert instructors have countless years of outdoor experience ensuring that you get the most out of your visit.

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Booking Policy

Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by our terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern Serious Outdoor Skills relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

Course participants must be over 18 years of age or accompanied by a paying adult and agreed with Serious Outdoor Skills. Course participants must have a good standard of general fitness and be aware that a survival and bushcraft course, navigation course and canoe events can be both physically and mentally demanding. Serious Outdoor Skills cannot be held responsible for any losses or injury incurred as a result of failure from clients to disclosing medical conditions or issues.

Serious Outdoor Skills will make every possible effort to run the courses as scheduled. There could possibly be circumstances for example, extreme weather conditions or the minimum number of course participants required not being met, when we are forced to cancel or postpone a course. In these circumstances which are out of our control, an alternative date will be offered or the amount paid will be transferable to an alternative event. Course content may also be subject to change for the best nature of the group. This decision can be made by SOS instructors at any period before or whilst an event is in progress.

All deposits for course bookings are non refundable after 24-hours from the time of purchase.

The customer agrees that any photographs or photography taken by the instructors during the course may be used by Serious Outdoor Skills in promotional material or advertising either printed or on the internet.

We advise that in the unlikely event that any complaints or issues should arise they should be directed in the first instance to the instructors during that particular course, so that the issue(s) can be resolved at the present time. Any complaints that arise after the end of the course must be put in writing to Serious Outdoor Skills within 28 days of the end of the course that you attended. Serious Outdoor Skills will not be liable for any complaints received after this time period.

Cancellation Policy