BushscoutUK Blog
Gilwell Reunion is the annual weekend of programme ideas, practical skills and support for adult volunteers in Scouting at Gilwell Park, The Scout's HQ. In August 2025, 55 BushscoutUK members provided their ever popular practical skills bases, with a mixture of taster activities from our skills days and innovative ideas that young people and adults love.
The Global Bushcraft Symposium(GBS) is an international gathering to promote bushcraft, survival, and traditional skills instruction through the open exchange of philosophies, teaching methods and dissemination of best practices within these fields”. For2022 the Global Bushcraft Symposium was hosted in the UK in Wales. Attendees and speakers travelled from all over the world to the event, with some bringing themed camp equipment and activities by road and across the sea by ferry. The event consisted of several main talks, break-out talks, Skills workshops and themed camps, as well as lots of conversations and discussions about bushcraft and related skills. The theme this year was “lifelong learning” with the main speeches focused on this topic with details of how others had been on their learning journey and where it would take them next. There was a good mix of practitioners and academics covering different topics.