BECOME A CONTRIBUTOR
SHARE WHAT YOU KNOW. HELP OTHERS LEARN.
Do you have outdoor skills, experience or knowledge that could help someone else?
Survival Guides UK is looking for people who love the outdoors and want to share what they know with others.
You don’t need to be a professional writer.
You don’t need your own website.
And you don’t need to have contributed to a website before.
You just need something useful to teach.
Whether you know your way around a campfire, can navigate with a map and compass, enjoy hiking and camping, teach outdoor skills, practise bushcraft or simply have years of experience in the outdoors, we’d love to hear from you.
What Can You Contribute?
We’re interested in practical outdoor knowledge that people can actually use.
You could contribute:
- Outdoor skills and techniques
- Camping and campcraft
- Fire lighting and fire safety
- Navigation and map reading
- Knots and pioneering
- Bushcraft
- Hiking and walking
- Outdoor cooking
- Water skills
- Survival skills
- Outdoor safety
- Activities and challenges
- Nature and outdoor knowledge
- Tips gained from your own experience
- Ideas for helping people develop outdoor skills
- You can also suggest subjects that you think Survival Guides UK should cover.
If there’s something you think people should know, tell us about it.
You Don’t Have to Be a Writer
This is important.
We aren’t looking for perfect writers.
We’re looking for people who know things.
You might be an experienced walker who knows how to plan a long-distance route.
You might be a Scout leader who has spent years teaching campcraft.
You might be a bushcraft enthusiast who has developed a great way of teaching fire lighting.
You might simply have learned something through years of being outdoors that you wish you’d known when you started.
Your experience is valuable.
You can send us your idea, notes or even a rough draft and we’ll help turn it into a clear, useful Survival Guides UK resource.
How It Works
Tell Us About Yourself
Complete the contributor form and tell us a little about your outdoor experience and what you’d like to contribute.
Share Your Idea
You don’t need to write the whole article first.
Tell us what you’d like to teach and we’ll discuss whether it would be a good fit for Survival Guides UK.
Create Your Contribution
Once your idea is approved, you can create your contribution.
You can submit a finished article, rough notes, an activity idea or other useful material.
We Prepare It for Publication
We’ll review, edit and format your contribution so that it fits the Survival Guides UK style and is useful for our readers.
You Get the Credit
Your contribution is published with your name and contributor information.
Where appropriate, we’ll also include links to your website, social profile, organisation or other relevant work.
Become Part of Something Bigger
Survival Guides UK is being built around a simple idea:
Outdoor skills are worth learning, practising and passing on.
We want to bring together people with different experiences and areas of knowledge so that more people can learn useful outdoor skills.
As the contributor community grows, contributors will also have opportunities to gain recognition for their involvement through the Survival Guides UK community.
Who Are We Looking For?
We’re interested in people from all sorts of outdoor backgrounds.
You could be:
- An outdoor enthusiast
- A hiker or walker
- A camper
- A bushcraft enthusiast
- An outdoor instructor
- An outdoor educator
- A Scout or Guide volunteer
- A former Scout or Guide
- A survival skills enthusiast
- A nature enthusiast
- An experienced outdoor cook
- A photographer
- Someone who runs outdoor activities
- Someone with a specialist outdoor skill
- Or simply someone with useful experience to share
You don’t need qualifications to contribute.
However, contributions involving safety-critical subjects must be based on responsible, accurate information and may receive additional editorial review.
What Do Contributors Get?
We want contributing to Survival Guides UK to be worthwhile.
Published contributors can receive:
Contributor recognition
Your name and contribution are credited when your work is published.
A contributor profile
As the contributor community develops, you’ll be able to build a profile showing your contributions and areas of expertise.
Links to your work
Where appropriate, we can include relevant links to your website, social profiles or organisation.
A published portfolio
Your published contributions give you a record of useful work that you’ve created and shared with others.
Community recognition
Contributors will be able to earn recognition as they become more involved with Survival Guides UK.
Have an Idea?
You don’t have to wait until you’ve written an article.
If you have an idea for something that would help people learn an outdoor skill, send it to us.
It could be a single article.
It could be a series.
It could be an activity.
It could be a challenge.
It could even be something we haven’t thought of yet.
We’re interested in good ideas.
Ready to Contribute?
Tell us a little about yourself and what you’d like to contribute. You can send your answers using the contact form or email us directly at admin@survivalguidesuk.com
Contributor Application
Name
Your name
Email address
Your email address
What outdoor skills or experience do you have?
Tell us about your experience, interests or areas of knowledge.
What would you like to contribute?
Tell us about your article, activity, guide, idea or area of expertise.
Have you written or published outdoor content before?
Yes / No
Website or social media
Optional
Anything else you’d like us to know?
Optional
We review every submission and will contact you about your idea.
One Last Thing
You don’t have to be an expert.
You don’t have to know everything.
And you don’t have to be a professional writer.
If you know something that could help someone become better at being outdoors, we want to hear from you.
Share what you know.
Help someone learn.
Become a Survival Guides UK Contributor.