About Us

We want to engage, entertain and educate our audience, instilling the skills, confidence and curiosity to spend more time thriving outdoors.

Who we are

Ed Stafford, Steven Hanton and Ben Sherlock met each other filming survival shows for Discovery Channel in China. Our fourth member is our business-head, Ed Tilston. As free-lancers with complimentary skills, and dads of young families, we all saw the potential to make quality outdoor learning super accessible.

What we do

Ed is a survival expert who has hosted ten series on Discovery Channel. Steven Hanton is a world-leading authority on bushcraft and has been leading remote expeditions for over 20 years. Ben Sherlock is a highly regarded Director of Photography for top television productions. Ed Tilston looked after ambassadors and sponsorship at Land Rover for many years and now focuses on business opportunities.

Our goal

We want to engage, entertain and educate our audience, instilling the skills, confidence and curiosity to spend more time thriving outdoors. We want to bring more people into bushcraft as a means of embracing the emotional, physical and psychological benefits of spending time outdoors.

About Ed and Steven

Ed Stafford

Ed is the Guinness World Record-holding first human to walk the length of the Amazon River. He has gone on to become the face of survival on Discovery Channel and an internationally renowned survival expert. Ed’s passion lies in using bushcraft and the outdoors as a crucible for self-development and a tool for maintaining optimum mental health. Ed lives in Leicestershire with his adventurer wife Laura Bingham, son Ran and their twin girls Molly and Milly.

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Steven Hanton

Steven is a highly regarded bushcraft instructor, consultant and expedition guide. He provides training and advice to individuals, tv productions and corporate clients, as well as leading commercial expeditions into the world’s most remote wilderness areas. Experienced in jungle, desert and arctic travel, Steven is a passionate champion of indigenous peoples for whom bushcraft is a way of life. As well as his encyclopaedic bushcraft knowledge, Steven is a qualified mountain guide, canoe coach, internationally certified wildlife tracker and trained in wilderness medicine. He spends his spare time building traditional wood and canvas canoes, and paddling Britain’s fabulous waterways with his partner and their two sons. Steven runs and teaches bushcraft courses at www.folkschool.uk.

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Laura Brand

Laura Brand is an illustrator and mum of two. She shares her crafty experiments and creative ideas for everyday play on her platform The Joy Journal and has led workshops for children and adults at Fearne Cotton's Happy Place Festival, Port Elliot and others. Laura lives in the countryside with her husband, their two daughters, two dogs, two cats and chickens. Home is a place of muddy boots, abundant jars of play dough and hand-painted 'welcome' banners above the doors. With chaos and calm in equal measure, Laura aspires to guide her children in the joy of play as well as mindfulness. Laura has found that having her own creative outlet, as well as facilitating a space for the creativity of her girls, has been a welcome tonic.