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, go out on Wednesdays and Thursdays and meet us at Hall Place in Bexley between 9:00 and 9:30 or can go directly to the site. A typical day usually finishes around 16:00 and plenty of breaks, drinks and biscuits are supplied. All you will need to bring are suitable clothes for the weather conditions and a packed lunch. All tools and equipment such as gloves and steel toe capped boots will be provided and any training in tool use will be given.
We work in Bexley, Dartford, Sevenoaks and Gravesham on a huge variety of projects which include path clearance, coppicing, creating nature areas in schools, hedge laying, 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?
If you think you would be interested in joining us then please contact Stephanie Johnson at: 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
Please find below a copy of this month’s volunteering tasks:
Volunteer Project Programme – September 2023
Reminder: Please let the staff member leading the task know if you plan to attend so they can bring enough tools on the day.
Wednesday 6th – No Task
Thursday 7th – Platinum Way, St Mary’s Platt, Sevenoaks, TN15 8FH
We will be building log piles and doing scrub management for reptiles. Brushcutter operators needed.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am if meeting at the yard in Hall Place or 10am if travelling directly to the memorial hall car park (parking available at the Platt memorial hall car park)
What3words: Meeting point: ///vital.star.late
Parking: ///miles.shiny.linen
https://goo.gl/maps/Xe2hN5BVraciSdB47
Wednesday 13th – Longfield Chalk Bank, Long Valley Hall, W Shaw, Longfield DA3 7QJ
We will be cutting and raking on site. Brushcutter operators needed.
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
Thursday 14th – Longfield Chalk Bank, Long Valley Hall, W Shaw, Longfield DA3 7QJ
We will be continuing the cutting and raking on site. Brushcutter operators needed.
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
Wednesday 20th – The Enchanted Woodland, Cornwall Road, Dartford, DA1 5QE
We will be doing the autumn cut of the meadow and raking up the arisings. Brushcutter operators needed.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
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.
What3words ///dreams.trio.path
https://goo.gl/maps/NJvY5dzTfoH7yevz5
Thursday 21st – The Enchanted Woodland, Cornwall Road, Dartford, DA1 5QE
We will be continuing to do the autumn cut of the meadow and raking up the arisings. Brushcutter operators needed.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
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.
What3words ///dreams.trio.path
https://goo.gl/maps/NJvY5dzTfoH7yevz5
Wednesday 27th – Ridgeway, Southmere Park, Thamesmead, SE2 9AN
We will be strimming and raking along the Ridgeway cycle and footpath in preparation for wildflower seed sowing as part of the Thamesmead Pollinator Corridor Project. We will also scarify the plots to introduce a wildflower seed mix.
Led by: Judith Ormesher (07816128511)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or if travelling directly to site 10am at the Southmere Park entrance, Bazalgette Way (near the lake).
What3words ///curry.bike.happy
Thursday 28th – Danson Park, Danson Road, Welling, DA6 9HL
We will be installing the vegetated rafts/fish refuges that were constructed and further managing the bog garden in the wildlife area.
Depending on weather beforehand wellies maybe required.
Led by: Mark Gallant (07740 185228)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place or if travelling directly to site 10am at Danson Park car park.
What3words: ///apron.chin.lights
