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
October 2026
Wednesday 21st – Longfield Chalk Bank, Long Valley Hall, W Shaw, Longfield DA3 7QJ
We will be grass cutting and removing scrub. Brushcutter operators maybe required depending on temperature and reptile activity.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at Trosley Country Park or 10am if meeting directly on site 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.
Google Map for Longfield Chalk Bank
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Thursday 22nd – Longfield Chalk Bank, Long Valley Hall, W Shaw, Longfield DA3 7QJ
We will be grass cutting and removing scrub. Brushcutter operators maybe required depending on temperature and reptile activity.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at Trosley Country Park or 10am if meeting directly on site 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.
Google Map for Longfield Chalk Bank
What3words: ///useful.plus.ranked
Wednesday 28th – St Mary’s Churchyard, Manor Road, Bexley, DA5 3LX
We will be cutting the grass on site and raking. Brushcutter operators will be needed.
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 but parking usually ok in hall car park next door. There are no facilities on site but the toilet at the hall next door is often available.
Google Map for St Mary’s Churchyard
What3words: Meeting point = ///sheep.buzz.codes
Entrance gate = ///sushi.mole.washed
Thursday 29th – Gorse Wood, Woodland Avenue Recreation Ground, Hartley
We will be removing invasive woody plants, cutting back brambles, coppicing smaller trees and cutting back branches of larger trees.
Led by: Nina Skinner (07816128553)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at Trosley Country Park or 10am if meeting directly on site at the Woodland Avenue Recreation Ground. Google Map for Gorse Wood
There is free on site parking available on Woodlands Avenue and Wellfield.
November 2026
Wednesday 4th – Ruxley Gravel Pits, Edgington Way, Orpington, BR5 3HY
We will be doing path clearance.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at Trosley Country Park 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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Thursday 5th – Ruxley Gravel Pits, Edgington Way, Orpington, BR5 3HY
We will be continuing to clear the path along with pollarding and coppicing the willow trees in the reed bed.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at Trosley Country Park 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
Wednesday 11th – Saxten and Cages Wood, Rogers Wood Ln, Longfield DA3 8NQ
We will be coppicing a large area of hazel in the woods to help light reach the woodland floor and to improve the age diversity of the trees.
Led by: Stephanie Johnson (07816128570)
Meeting Time and Place: 9:30am at Trosley Country Park or 10am if meeting directly on site. About 3-4 cars will be able to park inside the wood once Steph arrives to open the access gate on Rogers Wood Lane. Another 2 cars can then park in front of this gate if needed. Alternatively there is space for 2-3 cars at the access gate along Fawkham Green Road (typing Dreamie Teepees Fawkham into google maps will take you close to the right spot). From this parking spot it is a 5-8 minute walk to the working area if you follow the right hand path straight through the wood.
Google Map for Rogers Wood Lane
Google Map for Fawkham Green Road
What3words: Rogers Wood Lane Parking: ///ladder.pages.then
Fawkham Green Road Parking: ///universally.stamp.nurses
Thursday 12th – Hollows Wood, Chelsfield Lane, Sevenoaks, BR6 7QT
We will be cutting down invasive laurel trees that are growing on site.
Led by: Stephanie Johnson (07816128570)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at Trosley Country Park or 10am if meeting directly on site. There is parking on site in a small loading bay area which Steph will be able to unlock for everyone to use upon arrival. The parking/meeting site is where Chelsfield Lane is intersected by a small path (see google maps).
What3words: Parking: ///humid.ending.limbs
Saturday 14th – Ruxley Gravel Pits, Edgington Way, Orpington, BR5 3HY
We will be continuing to pollard and coppicing the willow trees growing in the reed bed.
Please bring your own refreshments for this day.
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.
Google Map for Ruxley Gravel Pits
What3words:
Entrance: ///noises.sheet.reject
Parking: ///hopes.gender.gums
Wednesday 18th – Saxten and Cages Wood, Rogers Wood Ln, Longfield DA3 8NQ
We will be coppicing a large area of hazel in the woods to help light reach the woodland floor and to improve the age diversity of the trees.
Led by: Stephanie Johnson (07816128570)
Meeting Time and Place: 9:30am at Trosley Country Park or 10am if meeting directly on site. About 3-4 cars will be able to park inside the wood once Steph arrives to open the access gate on Rogers Wood Lane. Another 2 cars can then park in front of this gate if needed. Alternatively there is space for 2-3 cars at the access gate along Fawkham Green Road (typing Dreamie Teepees Fawkham into google maps will take you close to the right spot). From this parking spot it is a 5-8 minute walk to the working area if you follow the right hand path straight through the wood.
Google Map for Rogers Wood Lane
Google Map for Fawkham Green Road
What3words: Rogers Wood Lane Parking: ///ladder.pages.then
Fawkham Green Road Parking: ///universally.stamp.nurses
Thursday 19th – Hollows Wood, Chelsfield Lane, Sevenoaks, BR6 7QT
We will be cutting down invasive laurel trees that are growing on site.
Led by: Stephanie Johnson (07816128570)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at Trosley Country Park or 10am if meeting directly on site. There is parking on site in a small loading bay area which Steph will be able to unlock for everyone to use upon arrival. The parking/meeting site is where Chelsfield Lane is intersected by a small path (see google maps).
What3words: Parking: ///humid.ending.limbs
Wednesday 25th – Saxten and Cages, Rogers Wood Ln, Longfield DA3 8NQ
We will be coppicing the hazel trees growing in the woodland. Lucy will be on site to cut the larger trees with her chainsaw.
Led by: Stephanie Johnson (07816128570)
Meeting Time and Place: 9:30am at Trosley Country Park or 10am if meeting directly on site. About 3-4 cars will be able to park inside the wood once Steph arrives to open the access gate on Rogers Wood Lane. Another 2 cars can then park in front of this gate if needed. Alternatively there is space for 2-3 cars at the access gate along Fawkham Green Road (typing Dreamie Teepees Fawkham into google maps will take you close to the right spot). From this parking spot it is a 5-8 minute walk to the working area if you follow the right hand path straight through the wood.
Google Map for Rogers Wood Lane
Google Map for Fawkham Green Road
What3words: Rogers Wood Lane Parking: ///ladder.pages.then
Fawkham Green Road Parking: ///universally.stamp.nurses
Thursday 26th – HPC Orchard Planting Day
We will be planting seven large fruit trees at Billings Hill Shaw in Hartley.
Planting location: Google Map for Billings Hill Shaw
Led by: Nina Skinner (07816128553)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at Trosley Country Park if wanting a lift, otherwise meet on site at 10am at the planting location. Parking is available on neighbouring streets.
