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 – June 2026
Wednesday 3rd – Blackbush Shaw, Newbarn Lane, Cudham, Sevenoaks
We will be removing ragwort growing on site. The Woodland Trust is legally required to do this because their land borders landowners with grazing animals.
Led by: Stephanie Johnson (07816128570)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am, at the yard at Trosley Country Park or 10am if meeting on site (vehicle access gate). There is plenty of parking at Cudham Recreation Ground and the site is about a 10 minute walk from there. Alternatively there is space for 2 vehicles at the verge side parking location along Newbarn Lane. Depending on the ground conditions a few vehicles may be able to park on site at the vehicle access gate if the area is not too muddy.
What3words:
Verge Side Parking: ///become.jams.lonely
Vehicle Access Gate: ///wanted.dash.pack
Thursday 4th – Twenty Acre Shaw Wood, Luxted Road, Cudham, TN14 7QA
We will be removing the invasive Small Balsam plant which is growing on site. Brushcutter operators will be required to help clear the site.
Led by: Stephanie Johnson (07816128570)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am if needing a lift from Trosley Country Park. The meeting point at Luxted Road is only large enough for the landrover and trailer to park here.
Luxted Road entrance What3words: ///simply.solo.flops
Wednesday 10th – River Darent at Horton Kirby
We will be doing works to undertake bank side and in channel enhancement works on the River Darent at Horton Kirby. Please let Mark know by the 9th of June what size waders you will need (foot size).
Led by: Mark Gallant (07740185228)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard at Trosley Country Park or 10am if meeting on site at the Dartford & District Angling Preservation Society car park (Horton Road, Horton Kirby, Sevenoaks, DA4 9BS).
If you are traveling south along Horton Road, the gate for the DDAP`s fishing complex at Horton Kirby is located approx. 185 metres on the right-hand side after you pass the village hall.
The gate must always remain locked so if you are running late please phone Mark on his mobile to let him know.
Google Map for DDAP Fishing Complex (this link is for the Horton Kirby Scout Hut, which is located next to the DDAP`s fishing complex car park).
What3words: ///swing.draw.flows
Thursday 11th – Twenty Acre Shaw Wood, Luxted Road, Cudham, TN14 7QA
We will be removing the invasive Small Balsam plant which is growing on site. Brushcutter operators will be required to help clear the site.
Led by: Stephanie Johnson (07816128570)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am if needing a lift from Trosley Country Park. The meeting point at Luxted Road is only large enough for the landrover and trailer to park here.
Luxted Road entrance What3words: ///simply.solo.flops
Wednesday 17th – River Darent at Horton Kirby
We will be continuing works to undertake bank side and in channel enhancement works on the River Darent at Horton Kirby. Please let Mark know by the 16th of June what size waders you will need (foot size).
Led by: Mark Gallant (07740185228)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard at Trosley Country Park or 10am if meeting on site at the Dartford & District Angling Preservation Society car park (Horton Road, Horton Kirby, Sevenoaks, DA4 9BS).
If you are traveling south along Horton Road, the gate for the DDAP`s fishing complex at Horton Kirby is located approx. 185 metres on the right-hand side after you pass the village hall.
The gate must always remain locked so if you are running late please phone Mark on his mobile to let him know.
Google Map for DDAP Fishing Complex (this link is for the Horton Kirby Scout Hut, which is located next to the DDAP`s fishing complex car park).
What3words: ///swing.draw.flows
Thursday 18th – Twenty Acre Shaw Wood, Luxted Road, Cudham, TN14 7QA
We will be removing the invasive Small Balsam plant which is growing on site. Brushcutter operators will be required to help clear the site.
Led by: Stephanie Johnson (07816128570)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am if needing a lift from Trosley Country Park. The meeting point at Luxted Road is only large enough for the landrover and trailer to park here.
Luxted Road entrance What3words: ///simply.solo.flops
Wednesday 24th – River Darent at Horton Kirby
We will be continuing works to undertake bank side and in channel enhancement works on the River Darent at Horton Kirby. Please let Mark know by the 23rd of June what size waders you will need (foot size).
Led by: Mark Gallant (07740185228)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard at Trosley Country Park or 10am if meeting on site at the Dartford & District Angling Preservation Society car park (Horton Road, Horton Kirby, Sevenoaks, DA4 9BS).
If you are traveling south along Horton Road, the gate for the DDAP`s fishing complex at Horton Kirby is located approx. 185 metres on the right-hand side after you pass the village hall.
The gate must always remain locked so if you are running late please phone Mark on his mobile to let him know.
Google Map for DDAP Fishing Complex (this link is for the Horton Kirby Scout Hut, which is located next to the DDAP`s fishing complex car park).
What3words: ///swing.draw.flows
Thursday 25th – Twenty Acre Shaw Wood, Luxted Road, Cudham, TN14 7QA
We will be removing the invasive Small Balsam plant which is growing on site. Brushcutter operators will be required to help clear the site.
Led by: Stephanie Johnson (07816128570)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am if needing a lift from Trosley Country Park. The meeting point at Luxted Road is only large enough for the landrover and trailer to park here.
Luxted Road entrance What3words: ///simply.solo.flops
Friday 26th – National Hedgehog Monitoring Project
We will be calibrating and collecting 30 camera traps at specific locations over a 1km2 area.
Volunteers with previous experience would be very much appreciated, but full guidance will be given on the day.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 10am at Google Map for Otford Parish Council Offices
Parking in the car park over the road is free for the first hour, after that move to Palace Park Wood (Sevenoaks Rd, Otford, Sevenoaks TN14 5PR). Parking there is free and we will be meeting up there at the end of the day.
