Richard Arnott
BUSHCRAFT INSTRUCTOR
PART TIME
Richard has always felt at home outside, as a child he was the little boy who lived at the end of the lane and loved playing in the ditches, climbing trees and wild camping with his brother and mates. The Bush Tucker Man Les Hiddins TV show and Lofty Wiseman's SAS survival handbook inspired many adventures that often involved abseiling out of the biggest tree in the wood and cooking food on open fires. It was no surprise that he decided to make his career working in Horticulture so he could be outside.
Having spent over 20 years being outside through the seasons with his horticulture and often saying to friends and family that he would like to develop his outdoor skills further he took the plunge In 2013 as a customer on the Woodland Ways Bushcraft and Survival Weekend and has been hooked ever since. Adam Logan was a great inspiration on that first course and helped him to realise how he could develop his outdoor skills.
Richard went on to join the 2 year Woodland Wayer and became an apprentice instructor. This was a big commitment for him as it meant many weekends away from his growing family, but the draw of the woods was too strong to resist. The obsession with learning was well and truly underway. The depth of knowledge on the Wayer has stood him in good stead for his onward development.
In the autumn 2019 he realised his goal of becoming a Woodland Ways Instructor.
Richard is fascinated with the natural world and passionate about sharing its many secrets with others. A passion for plants has always been in his heart and he loves sharing this with customers. Among his other passions Richard enjoys hide work, tracking, bird watching, spoon carving, foraging and learning primitive skills by researching hunter gatherer practices. He is currently interested in the way in which the brain processes information in nature leading to fast intuitive thinking versus slower thinking and how this can be developed to become a better outdoors man.
He shares his life with his wife and four boys in south Cambridgeshire where, in his spare time, he can be found in the woodlands of the local area passing on his love of nature to his children.