Join Basildon Heritage for their Volunteer Recruitment Drive on Saturday 5th December, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at The Green Centre, Wat Tyler Country Park, Pitsea
Whether you have a passion for local history, practical skills to share, or simply a desire to give back to your community, volunteering with Basildon Heritage offers a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
Why Get Involved & The Benefits of Volunteering:
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Preserve Local History: Help bring Basildon’s rich heritage and stories to life for future generations through exhibitions, archives, oral histories, and community projects.
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Share & Build Skills: Utilise your existing expertise or learn new skills across digital media, IT, administration, research, exhibition design, community fundraising, and public outreach.
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Collaborate & Learn: Work alongside passionate individuals and learn from in-house experts in genealogy, research, and local history.
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Connect with the Community: Meet like-minded people, engage with local residents, and play an active role in strengthening community ties.
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Flexible Opportunities: With a wide variety of ways to contribute—ranging from creative content creation and technical work to guiding visitors and organising records—there’s a meaningful way for everyone to participate regardless of background.
Come along to Wat Tyler Country Park to discover how you can get involved, share your enthusiasm, and help celebrate Basildon's vibrant heritage!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The centre will be closed on Saturday 7th November 2026. Instead you can find us at the Benbow Club, Bowers Gifford, Pound Lane Christmas Bazaar with a display of the area.
We will reopen as normal on Monday 9th November 2026.
The Heritage Centre will also be closed on Saturday 28th November 2026
The Basildon Borough area has produced its fair share of memorable people or achievements over the years.
The Basildon Borough Heritage Society is justly proud of its involvement in the erection of various Blue Plaque memorials to these people and/or achievements.
A number of Blue Plaques have already been erected in various locations in the Borough to commemorate the impact that individuals or incidents have had on shaping the World in which we live in today.The details about, and the location of, these existing Blue Plaques can be found at…
https://www.basildonheritage.
Basildon Heritage’s Blue Plaque projects are made possible through the financial support of people who recognise the worthiness of the project in memorialising appropriate people from our area.
Basildon Heritage are currently seeking financial support for the purchase and erection of a new Blue Plaque in the Basildon Borough area in memory of June Haimoff MBE (also known as Kaptan June), a Pitsea-born lady whose conservation works had a lasting impact on the marine environment in general and on the Loggerhead sea turtle population in particular. We will be posting more information about this lady over the coming weeks.
Please consider making a donation right now to our fund-raising campaign in memory of a local girl’s wonderful achievements.
Preserve Local History
Researching and recording the history of Basildon Borough.
Blue Plaques
Commemorating notable people, places and events - click here for more information
Archives & Research
Providing access to newspapers, photographs and historical resources.
Events & Talks
Sharing local history through talks, exhibitions and community events.
Introducing the Basildon Heritage Time Travel Terminal
