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 – March 2026
Wednesday 4th – No Task Planned
Thursday 5th – Hollows Wood, Chelsfield Lane, Sevenoaks, BR6 7QT
We will be cutting down and digging up invasive laurel trees that are growing on site along with clearing up felled logs and branches. Lucy will be on site using a chainsaw and applying pesticides to the laurel trees.
Led by: Stephanie Johnson (07816128570)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or 10am if meeting directly on site. There is limited parking on site in a small loading bay area for a few cars. The parking/meeting site is where Chelsfield Lane is intersected by a small path (see google maps).
What3words: Parking: ///humid.ending.limbs
Wednesday 11th – St Mary’s Churchyard, Manor Road, Bexley, DA5 3LY
We will be moving piles of wood chip onto the paths and maintaining pathway access by cutting back vegetation.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
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
What3words: Meeting point = ///sheep.buzz.codes
Entrance gate = ///sushi.mole.washed
Thursday 12th – Relighting the river corridor on the Darent at Castle Farm (Eynsford)
We will be working in partnership with the Darent Valley Trout Fishers to carry out work along the riverbank to allow more light into the river. Please let Mark know your wader size (shoe size) if you are meeting on site by Monday the 9th at the latest.
Led by: Mark Gallant (07740185228)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or 10am if meeting on site at Preston Farm, Shoreham, Sevenoaks, TN14 7UE. For those meeting on site, press the trades button on the intercom system to open the gate. Follow the track down to the farm buildings, passing the Down-to-Earth Trees office and park beside the large barn facing the river/bridge.
https://maps Google Map for Preston Farm
What3words: /// dates.loyal.nurse
Wednesday 18th – Relighting the river corridor on the Darent at Castle Farm (Eynsford)
We will be working in partnership with the Darent Valley Trout Fishers to carry out work along the riverbank to allow more light into the river. Please let Mark know your wader size (shoe size) if you are meeting on site by Monday the 16th at the latest.
Led by: Mark Gallant (07740185228)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or 10am if meeting on site. Please ask Mark for meeting details as this will depend on how much progress along the river has been made previously.
Thursday 19th – Relighting the river corridor on the Darent at Castle Farm (Eynsford)
We will be working in partnership with the Darent Valley Trout Fishers to carry out work along the riverbank to allow more light into the river. Please let Mark know your wader size (shoe size) if you are meeting on site by Monday the 16th at the latest.
Led by: Mark Gallant (07740185228)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or 10am if meeting on site. Please ask Mark for meeting details as this will depend on how much progress along the river has been made previously.
Wednesday 25th – Hollows Wood, Chelsfield Lane, Sevenoaks, BR6 7QT
We will be cutting down and digging up invasive laurel trees that are growing on site.
Led by: Stephanie Johnson (07816128570)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or 10am if meeting directly on site. There is limited parking on site in a small loading bay area for a few cars. The parking/meeting site is where Chelsfield Lane is intersected by a small path (see google maps).
What3words: Parking: ///humid.ending.limbs
Thursday 26th – Relighting the river corridor on the Darent at Castle Farm (Eynsford)
We will be working in partnership with the Darent Valley Trout Fishers to carry out work along the riverbank to allow more light into the river. Please let Mark know your wader size (shoe size) if you are meeting on site by Monday the 23rd at the latest.
Led by: Mark Gallant (07740185228)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or 10am if meeting on site. Please ask Mark for meeting details as this will depend on how much progress along the river has been made previously.
