Volunteering With Us
NORTH WEST KENT COUNTRYSIDE PARTNERSHIP
NWKCP simply could not continue without the support of our amazing, multi-award-winning volunteer team, some of whom have been volunteering with us for over twenty years! The team has a great feeling of camaraderie and nothing beats the feeling of working outdoors and having fun.
Our volunteering teams, typically go out on Wednesdays and Thursdays between 9:00 and 16:00 across a range of different sites in Bexley, Dartford, Gravesend and Sevenoaks. They work on a huge variety of projects which include path clearance, coppicing, creating nature areas in schools, hedge laying, pond creation, restoring river banks using traditional techniques and many more.
If you are keen to keep fit, connect with nature, make new friends and improve spaces for both wildlife and people then why not join us and become one of our invaluable volunteers?
For more information on volunteering with us please click on the following link: Volunteer Handbook
To sign up as one of our volunteers or to find out more please contact: Stephanie.Johnson@kent.gov.uk
If you are under 18 and interested in volunteering or thinking of work experience please follow the link to find out more:
Work Experience and Under 18s Volunteering
We can also offer practical, outdoor volunteering activities for employee teams. Follow the link to find out more:
Employee volunteering
Please find below a copy of this month’s volunteering tasks:
Volunteer Project Programme – February 2026
Tuesday 3rd – Hedgerow Heroes, Preston Farm, Shoreham Rd, Sevenoaks TN14 7UD
This task will involve hedge laying and also a bonfire.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 10am on site.
Plenty of parking on site and a toilet available.
What3words Parking: ///host.index.voted
Wednesday 4th – Ruxley Gravel Pits, Edgington Way, Orpington, BR5 3HY
We will be finishing cutting buddleia which will then be treated by Lucy along with also pollarding willow growing in the reed bed.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or 10am if meeting on site. The gate must be kept locked, if there is no-one there to open it, please call Lucy’s mobile. DO NOT block the gate by parking in front of it while you wait! Follow the track and park underneath the A20. Plenty of parking. Portaloo available, but usually far from work site. Full day only as it is difficult for volunteers to leave at lunchtime due to locked gates.
Google Map for Ruxley Gravel Pits
What3words:
Entrance: ///noises.sheet.reject
Parking: ///hopes.gender.gums
Thursday 5th – Ruxley Gravel Pits, Edgington Way, Orpington, BR5 3HY
We will be continuing to pollard the willow in the reed bed.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or 10am if meeting on site. The gate must be kept locked, if there is no-one there to open it, please call Lucy’s mobile. DO NOT block the gate by parking in front of it while you wait! Follow the track and park underneath the A20. Plenty of parking. Portaloo available, but usually far from work site. Full day only as it is difficult for volunteers to leave at lunchtime due to locked gates.
Google Map for Ruxley Gravel Pits
What3words:
Entrance: ///noises.sheet.reject
Parking: ///hopes.gender.gums
Friday 6th – Hedgerow Heroes, Preston Farm, Shoreham Rd, Sevenoaks TN14 7UD
This task will involve hedge laying and also a bonfire. This task will also include help from corporate volunteers from Federated Hermes.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 10am on site.
Plenty of parking on site and a toilet available.
What3words Parking: ///host.index.voted
Tuesday 10th – Hedgerow Heroes, Preston Farm, Shoreham Rd, Sevenoaks TN14 7UD
This task will involve hedge laying and also a bonfire. This task may also include help from corporate volunteers and other volunteer groups.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 10am on site.
Plenty of parking on site and a toilet available.
What3words Parking: ///host.index.voted
Wednesday 11th – Longfield Chalk Bank, Long Valley Hall, W Shaw, Longfield DA3 7QJ
We will be grass cutting and raking which will require brushcutter operators.
Led by: Nina Skinner (07816128553)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or if travelling directly to site 10am in the car park behind the Long Valley Hall and Social Centre (parking can be limited at times). Alternative parking can be found on the residential roads nearby.
What3words: ///useful.plus.ranked
Google Map for Longfield Chalk Bank
Thursday 12th – White Hill, Shoreham Road, Shoreham, TN14 7RU
We will be clearing scrub on site along with cutting and raking the meadow. Brushcutter operators required.
Led by: Nina Skinner (07816128553)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place if requiring a lift, otherwise please meet at the layby on Shoreham Road at 10am. There is limited parking available at the layby on Shoreham Road or otherwise there is parking on Station Road. Google Map for White Hill
Google Map for White Hill
What3words: ///cling.sweep.milky
Friday 13th – The Enchanted Woodland, Cornwall Road, Dartford, DA1 5QE
We will be cutting the meadow and raking up the arisings along with moving logs from a fallen tree. Brushcutter operators needed.
Led by: Stephanie Johnson (07816128570)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or if travelling directly to site 10am, meet outside the entrance (by residential car park) at the end of Cornwall Road. There is limited parking and a toilet on site.
Google Map for The Enchanted Woodland
What3words ///dreams.trio.path
Saturday 14th – Ruxley Gravel Pits, Edgington Way, Orpington, BR5 3HY
We will be finishing burning the arisings on site as this will be the last Ruxley task of the season and possibly digging in the reed bed. Please bring your own refreshments on this date.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 10am on site. The gate must be kept locked, if there is no-one there to open it, please call Lucy’s mobile. DO NOT block the gate by parking in front of it while you wait! Follow the track and park underneath the A20. Plenty of parking. Portaloo available, but usually far from work site. Full day only as it is difficult for volunteers to leave at lunchtime due to locked gates.
Google Map for Ruxley Gravel Pits
What3words:
Entrance: ///noises.sheet.reject
Parking: ///hopes.gender.gums
Tuesday 17th – Hedgerow Heroes, Preston Farm, Shoreham Rd, Sevenoaks TN14 7UD
This task will involve hedge laying and also a bonfire. This task may also include help from corporate volunteers and other volunteer groups.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 10am on site.
Plenty of parking on site and a toilet available.
What3words Parking: ///host.index.voted
Tuesday 17th – Hedgerow Heroes, The Mill Field, High Street, Eynsford, Sevenoaks, Kent, DA4 0AS
This task will involve working in partnership with Campaign for Rural England Kent and The Millfield Trust to plant trees along the existing hedgerow in the Mill Field (field on the high street between Mill Lane and Oliver Crescent)
Led by: Mark Gallant (07740185228)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or 10am if meeting on site. Parking on the main road is tricky but there is free parking in the local roads near to the Mill Field site and in the car park for Eynsford Castle (Eynsford DA4 0AA). The working area can be accessed from the main road and we will be working along the hedgerow in the middle of the field that divides the main field and the wider compartment next to the river.
Google Map for The Mill Field Eynsford
What3words Meeting Point: ///tight.escape.libraries
Wednesday 18th – Longfield Chalk Bank, Long Valley Hall, W Shaw, Longfield DA3 7QJ
We will be uprooting scrub, and if cold enough grass cutting and raking which will require brushcutter operators. We may also do some coppicing.
Led by: Nina Skinner (07816128553)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or if travelling directly to site 10am in the car park behind the Long Valley Hall and Social Centre (parking can be limited at times). Alternative parking can be found on the residential roads nearby.
What3words: ///useful.plus.ranked
Google Map for Longfield Chalk Bank
Thursday 19th – White Hill, Shoreham Road, Shoreham, TN14 7RU
We will be clearing scrub on site along with cutting and raking the meadow. Brushcutter operators required.
Led by: Nina Skinner (07816128553)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place if requiring a lift, otherwise please meet at the layby on Shoreham Road at 10am. There is limited parking available at the layby on Shoreham Road or otherwise there is parking on Station Road. Google Map for White Hill
Google Map for White Hill
What3words: ///cling.sweep.milky
Tuesday 24th – Hedgerow Heroes, Preston Farm, Shoreham Rd, Sevenoaks TN14 7UD
This task will involve working in partnership with Campaign for Rural England Kent and Preston Farm to plant trees along the hedgerow at the farm in Shoreham.
Led by: Mark Gallant (07740185228)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am in our yard if requiring a lift or 10am if meeting directly on site.
Plenty of parking on site and a toilet available. To open the gate to Preston Farm, press the trade button on the intercom system and follow the track down to the farm buildings, pass the Down To Earth office and park beside the large barn facing the river/bridge.
What3words Parking: ///host.index.voted
What3words Meeting Point: ///dates.loyal.nurse
Wednesday 25th – Longfield Chalk Bank, Long Valley Hall, W Shaw, Longfield DA3 7QJ
We will be uprooting scrub, and if cold enough grass cutting and raking which will require brushcutter operators. We may also do some coppicing.
Led by: Nina Skinner (07816128553)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or if travelling directly to site 10am in the car park behind the Long Valley Hall and Social Centre (parking can be limited at times). Alternative parking can be found on the residential roads nearby.
What3words: ///useful.plus.ranked
Google Map for Longfield Chalk Bank
Thursday 26th – Longfield Chalk Bank, Long Valley Hall, W Shaw, Longfield DA3 7QJ
We will be uprooting scrub, and if cold enough grass cutting and raking which will require brushcutter operators. We may also do some coppicing.
Led by: Nina Skinner (07816128553)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or if travelling directly to site 10am in the car park behind the Long Valley Hall and Social Centre (parking can be limited at times). Alternative parking can be found on the residential roads nearby.
What3words: ///useful.plus.ranked
