Forge 54

Fire. Food. Belonging.

Spend the day around live fire, learn skills you’ll actually use, cook food worth sharing and meet good people along the way.

Forge 54 creates high-quality live-fire experiences where people take part, learn together and leave with more than they expected.

What Forge 54 is

More than a day around the barbecue.

Forge 54 brings men together around fire and food to build skills, friendships and a real sense of belonging.

Most of our experiences are designed primarily for men. We also run selected events for couples, families, fathers and children, younger people and other specifically designed groups.

Nobody has to be struggling to belong here. Come because you want to learn, cook, get outside, spend time with good people or simply do something different.

Hands building a wood fire at a Forge 54 experience

Upcoming experiences

What’s coming up around the fire

From live-fire fundamentals and barbecue skills to specialist smoking, game, whole-animal butchery and guest-expert days, every Forge 54 experience is built to be hands-on, well hosted and worth showing up for.

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Why it feels different

Built to be worth showing up for.

A Forge 54 day is more than instruction. We bring together practical skill, adventure, quality hospitality and the kind of shared experience that makes conversation happen naturally.

Hands-on

You learn by doing. Build the fire. Prepare the food. Ask questions. Try things. Have a go.

High standards

Quality equipment, good ingredients, capable people and proper preparation. Premium without pretence.

Shared experience

Cook together. Eat together. Make room for other people. The shared table is part of the day, not an afterthought.

Real belonging

No performance. No judgement. You can arrive on your own, with a mate or as part of a group and still feel part of it.

The 5:4 framework

Five ingredients. Four outcomes.

Forge 54 is built around five ingredients that shape the experience and four outcomes we want to create the conditions for.

You arrive as a guest. You leave feeling part of it.

There is a place around the fire for you, and something in you worth bringing to it.

Forge 54 is built on a simple idea: belonging is not only something we receive. It is something we help create for other people. That starts with a welcome, grows through shared experience and continues after the event.

A group sharing food around a table outdoors

Groups

Bring your people. We’ll build the day around them.

Planning something with friends? Looking for a team day that does not feel like a corporate exercise? Bringing a church, charity or community group together?

Forge 54 can shape a live-fire experience around the people in front of us, with the same standards of food, hospitality, challenge and belonging.

Partners

Good experiences are built with good partners.

We want to work with brands, local producers, skilled experts and organisations we are proud to stand beside. The right partners help us raise the standard, widen access and create experiences people remember.

Our story

Why Forge 54 exists.

For our founder, belonging is personal. After entering foster care at 15, Ant found a new sense of community in people who chose to show up, make room and help him move forward.

Forge 54 grew from that experience and from a conviction that gathering people together matters. Fire and food give us a natural place to start.

Ant Hodges, founder of Forge 54

Come for the fire. Stay for the people.

Choose an experience, bring a group or simply see what is coming up. There is a place around the fire for you.