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 – November 2025
Saturday 15th – Ruxley Gravel Pits, Edgington Way, Orpington, BR5 3HY
Cutting Buddleia for treatment with herbicide.
Please bring your own refreshments on this date.
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.
Google Map for Ruxley Gravel Pits
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Wednesday 19th – St Mary’s Churchyard, Manor Road, Bexley, DA5 3LY
This task day will be split across two sites. Mark will be leading a small group at St Marys Churchyard where they will be raking grass, distributing wood chip onto the paths and using logs to make habitat piles. Lucy will be taking the other group over to St Mary’s Platt (Platinum Way, St Mary’s Platt, Sevenoaks, TN15 8FH) to move logs to create habitat piles. Please meet at St Mary’s Churchyard at the beginning of the task day.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071) and Mark Gallant (07740185228)
Meeting Time and Place: 10am, at the churchyard (black gates at end of Manor Road, there is limited parking on site). There are no facilities on site. Please enquiry with Lucy as to whether she can provide a lift from Hall Place or not.
Google Map for St Mary’s Churchyard
Google Map for St Mary’s Platt
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Entrance gate St Mary’s Churchyard = ///sushi.mole.washed
Meeting point St Mary’s Platt = ///vital.star.late
Parking Platt Memorial Hall Car Park = ///miles.shiny.linen
Thursday 20th – St Mary’s Platt reptile site, Platinum Way, St Mary’s Platt, Sevenoaks, TN15 8FH
Bramble and scrub management. Brushcutter operators required.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place if requiring a lift, otherwise please meet at 10am, in the car park of Platt Memorial Hall Google Map for St Mary’s Platt
If you want to park your car in the car park, please provide Lucy with your car registration one week before, or you will be charged for parking.
There are no facilities on site, unless the hall happens to be open.
What3words: Meeting point St Mary’s Platt = ///vital.star.late
Parking Platt Memorial Hall Car Park = ///miles.shiny.linen
Tuesday 25th – Hedgerow Heroes, Preston Farm, Sevenoaks TN14 7UD
This task will involve hedge laying and also a bonfire. Lucy needs as many experienced volunteers as possible for this task.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place if requiring a lift, otherwise please meet on site at 10am.
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Wednesday 26th – 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 Shoreham Parking
What3words: ///cling.sweep.milky
Thursday 27th – Gorse Wood, Woodland Avenue Recreation Ground, Hartley
We will be removing invasive woody plants, cutting back brambles, coppicing smaller trees and cutting back branches from larger trees.
Led by: Nina Skinner (07816128553)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am in the yard in Hall Place if wanting a lift, otherwise meet on site at 10am at the Woodland Avenue Recreation Ground. Google Map for Gorse Wood
There is free on site parking available on Woodlands Avenue and Wellfield.
Friday 28th – Hedgerow Heroes, Preston Farm, Sevenoaks TN14 7UD
This task will involve hedge laying and also a bonfire. Lucy needs as many experienced volunteers as possible for this task.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place if requiring a lift, otherwise please meet on site at 10am.
What3words: ///host.index.voted
December 2025
Tuesday 2nd – Riverside Gardens, Erith, DA8 1QY
We will be installing 10 bird boxes on site. This task will involve going up ladders/working at height.
Led by: Nina Skinner (07816128553)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or 10am if meeting on site. There is limited on street paid parking (Ringo App) along Erith High Street and Walnut Tree Road. Parking expenses can be submitted to Stephanie Johnson. Alternatively you can park for free for 3 hours at Morrisons’ car park.
Riverside Gardens – Google Maps
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Wednesday 3rd – Ruxley Gravel Pits, Edgington Way, Orpington, BR5 3HY
We will be cutting down buddleias growing on site and treating them.
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.
Google Map for Ruxley Gravel Pits
What3words:
Entrance: ///noises.sheet.reject
Parking: ///hopes.gender.gums
Thursday 4th – Ruxley Gravel Pits, Edgington Way, Orpington, BR5 3HY
We will be cutting down buddleias growing on site and treating them.
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.
Google Map for Ruxley Gravel Pits
What3words:
Entrance: ///noises.sheet.reject
Parking: ///hopes.gender.gums
Tuesday 9th – Hedgerow Heroes, Preston Farm, Shoreham Rd, Sevenoaks TN14 7UD
This task will involve hedge laying and also a bonfire. This task might also include help from corporate volunteers and other volunteer groups.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or 10am if meeting on site
Plenty of parking on site but there are no toilets.
What3words: ///host.index.voted
Wednesday 10th – Longfield Chalk Bank, Long Valley Hall, W Shaw, Longfield DA3 7QJ
We will be cutting back the path, uprooting scrub, litter picking and if cold enough 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.
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Google Map for Longfield Chalk Bank
Thursday 11th – Longfield Chalk Bank, Long Valley Hall, W Shaw, Longfield DA3 7QJ
We will be cutting back the path, uprooting scrub, litter picking and if cold enough grass cutting and raking which will require brushcutter operators.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
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
Saturday 13th – Ruxley Gravel Pits, Edgington Way, Orpington, BR5 3HY
We will be cutting buddleia for treatment with herbicide.
Please bring your own refreshments on this date.
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.
Google Map for Ruxley Gravel Pits
What3words:
Entrance: ///noises.sheet.reject
Parking: ///hopes.gender.gums
Tuesday 16th – Hedgerow Heroes, Preston Farm, Shoreham Rd, Sevenoaks TN14 7UD
This task will involve hedge laying and also a bonfire. This task might also include help from corporate volunteers and other volunteer groups.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or 10am if meeting on site
Plenty of parking on site but there are no toilets.
What3words: ///host.index.voted
Christmas Break! No further tasks planned until the new year.
Thank you for all your volunteering over this past year. We hope you enjoy a well earned festive break.
