About Us

About Chris Garland Training

Our Expert Training Team

We are proud to be joined by a panel of expert instructors and assessors who join us to provide sector specific and bespoke training courses. Our instructor team includes;

Founding the company in 2012, Chris has grown the business to what it is today; a multi-faceted medical & safety training consultancy.

As a degree qualified building surveyor Chris’s first career was in the private, public and third-sectors where he worked as a senior construction project manager across the UK & Europe.

During this time Chris qualified as an advanced industrial climber and tower rescue specialist. These skills led him to join Cheshire Search & Rescue team and later, as a community first responder alongside North West Ambulance Service.

However Chris wanted to get out of the office and back to one of his passions – being outdoors.

As a qualified “bushcraft & wilderness survival instructor & mentor” and as a forest school leader, the vision was to teach traditional crafts alongside the burgeoning bushcraft, survival and forest school education movements. This developed into a passion to teach people new skills, leading to the launching of Chris Garland Training in 2015.

Trusted Training Partner

These are just some of the businesses and third sector organisations who trust Chris Garland Training as their training partners.

Where are we?

We’re based in the Cheshire countryside town of Knutsford, although we operate nationwide. Knutsford is just off the M6 motorway (junction 19) and conveniently located on the Manchester Piccadilly-Chester train line.

What Our Delegates Say

Excellent Training.We've booked Chris for training on a number of occasions, he's always quick to reply and the training is always a very high quality. We receive excellent feedback from our staff. We would highly recommend.

11/10 Great course. Chris is a legend! Informative, well-paced and interesting. Feel like I've learned a lot. The book was really high quality and the course covered a really good range of topics and was a fun learning environment.

An excellent course once again! Chris is brilliant teacher and very engaging. The best first aid course I've done and will recommend to others.

The course is amazing and super helpful! A bit intense, but we covered a lot of important things in the two days. Chris is a great person with a huge life experience!

A good balance between theory and practice. A great course.

A very interesting course with a dynamic knowledge and content delivery.

We've used Chris Garland Training before for our Ladder User Training. This was an excellent course and very effective. Bringing this skill in-house will help save the company lots of money. Thanks

Chris was a really good instructor & gave good examples. Now I feel safe using the equipment.

In depth and instructive. Well worth doing for safety.

A fun course and really informative. I enjoyed every day!

Really good course! Really happy!

Informative and fun while being serious in nature. Good new skills learned.

Very informative course. Very pleased.

Enjoyed the course & I learnt new things which I didn't know previously.

I have felt this course to be the most beneficial first aid course I have done. Very useful. Good to use real-life examples (epipen, etc).

Good, in-depth course, realistic and challenging to enable me to carry out the first aid role.

Chris made the course fun and interesting. An excellent course. Chris was professional and has expert knowledge. I learnt lots.