Volunteering

Volunteers for Parish Council Projects work alongside Parish Councillors and Parish Council staff. Volunteers have a named Parish Councilor as their point of contact and are supported by that person in their volunteering role.

Specific roles are posted on this page when they become available but we also invite residents to fill out our volunteering form even if there is not something immediately available as we are happy to try to work with you to identify a suitable role if you have a particular interest or have noticed something that we are doing which you think you could help with.

Volunteering Form for CKPC Projects - reviewed June 2022 (Word Document, 32 Kb)
Please download and complete this form if you are interested in Volunteering.
Forms should be emailed to community@charltonkingsparishcouncil.gov.uk

Volunteers for Parish Council Projects

Volunteer Roles
Parish Council Project	Role needed	Weekly/Monthly Hours	Length of Commitment
CK Futures - Our Climate and Environment Initiative	CKF001: Event & Activity Support: Helping design and deliver an activity at planned events.	1 hour a week and participation at the events and feeding back on the activity responses and impact.	We envisage this being a 6 month commitment and welcome ongoing support.
CK Futures - Our Climate and Environment Initiative	CKF002: Event & Activity Support: Running a small event (e.g. making bug boxes)	1 hour a week, promoting and leading the planned event and feeding back on the activity responses and impact.	We envisage this being a 6 month commitment and welcome ongoing support.
Ravensgate Common Management Group - Supporting the Parish Council's "Custodianship" of Ravensgate Common	RCMG001: Physical Management of the Common (e.g. raking up and burning debris after the Robomower or tree cutting)	Happy to discuss depending on volunteers availability.	We envisage this being a 6 month commitment and welcome ongoing support.
Ravensgate Common Management Group - Supporting the Parish Council's "Custodianship" of Ravensgate Common	RCMG002: Biological recording on the Common.	Happy to discuss depending on volunteers availability.	We envisage this being a 6 month commitment and welcome ongoing support.
Ravensgate Common Management Group - Supporting the Parish Council's "Custodianship" of Ravensgate Common	RCMG003: Historical research about the Common.	Happy to discuss depending on volunteers availability.	We envisage this being a 6 month commitment and welcome ongoing support.
Ravensgate Common Management Group - Supporting the Parish Council's "Custodianship" of Ravensgate Common	RCMG004: Records management of information about the Common.	Happy to discuss depending on volunteers availability.	We envisage this being a 6 month commitment and welcome ongoing support.
Rights of Way - Supporting the Parish Council's work on maintaining paths	ROW001: Walking paths within Charlton Kings and reporting issues such as path damage, better signage, overgrown, broken stiles etc	Happy to discuss depending on volunteers availability.	We envisage this being a 6 month commitment and welcome ongoing support.
Rights of Way - Supporting the Wardens Parish Council's work on maintaining paths	ROW002: Participating in working parties to facilitate in resolving issues on paths e.g. path repair, path clearing, signage, stile repair etc	Happy to discuss depending on volunteers availability.	We envisage this being a 6 month commitment and welcome ongoing support.

Volunteers for Partner Projects

Volunteers for Partner Projects work with our partners and our role is simply to connect people with volunteer opportunities. Often there is a link back into the work of the Parish Council or there are shared aims and objectives, but once the connection has been made, we are not involved in coordinating any of the volunteering which is done. Specific roles are posted on this page when they become available and we rely on our Partner organisations to let us know when the role(s) are filled.

Tree Guardians - See our Tree Guardians page to find out how to become a Tree Buddy, Tree Friend or Tree Champion.
Community Allotment - See our Community Allotment page to find out how to get involved
St Mary's Churchyard - The churchyard is jointly managed by the Church and the Parish Council. Sessions to tidy up the churchard, involving light gardening activities, will take place on the following Saturdays in 2023 for two hours from 9.30 am: 18th March, 15th April, 20th May, 17th June, 15th July, 19th August, 16th September, 14th October. For further information contact churchyard@stmarysck.org.uk

Volunteers for Community Projects

Volunteers for Community Projects are able to get in touch with Charlton Kings or Cheltenham based opportunities which we have been made aware of and have agreed to promote on this page.

Prospective volunteers use use the contact details and links provided to get in touch with the organisations listed and decide whether the volunteering opportunity is appropriate for them.

Specific roles are posted on this page when we become aware of them and though we try to keep them up to date we may sometimes be unaware that a role has been filled. Do drop us an email on community@charltonkingsparishcouncil.gov.uk if you notice that any roles are no longer available - thank you!