Discover how our community has contributed to the Town of Windsor in 2025!
A note from the Volunteer Coordinator
Welcome to the 2025 Volunteer Impact Report!
Our incredible volunteer community rose to the occasion in 2025. From patiently coaching kids to ride a bike independently for the first time, to learning how to install an entire irrigation system for a new community garden, the stories in this report share some of the magic made possible by volunteers coming together to make positive change.
2025 was a special year because our volunteer community united outside of volunteering. We gathered for tours to learn about Windsor’s unique collection of historic artifacts, the new open space wetlands experience, downtown public art, and historic buildings. We got together to make valentine’s cards, enjoyed a summer concert in the park, went on our annual Twilight Tour, and shared team meals. We served together, and we enjoyed each other’s company.
The Windsor Volunteer Experience is a unique community full of people that are dedicated to making Windsor the best it can be. Thank you for your contributions and your community spirit, everyone! I’m so proud to be a part of this team.
Sincerely,
Maddi Maddi Cheek Volunteer Coordinator
Impact 2025
5,194
TOTAL Volunteer Hours
363 TOTAL Volunteers
The dollar value of this year’s volunteer time is $201,215 — but the true value of volunteerism in our community is priceless.
The value of volunteer time is calculated by Independent Sector. Learn more about the methodology on their website. Colorado: 38.74. National: 34.79.
Thank you for making Windsor a great place to live, work and play!
VolunTeams
Volunteer teams serve on a regular basis to support program areas they are passionate about. In this section, learn about special projects made possible by volunteer teams this year!
2025 volunteer teams included:
• Crew Leaders
• Museum Education Gardens
• Garden Guides
• Bicycle Champions
• Trail Ambassadors
• Community Events
• Curator’s Crew
• Recreation Center
• Senior Lunch
• Treasure Island Gardeners
Interested in volunteering or joining a team? Complete an application and attend a Volunteer Orientation to find an opportunity that’s right for you! bit.ly/WindsorVolunteerApplication
Crew Leaders
Crew Leaders were trained by Wildlands Restoration Volunteers to lead a cohesive group project outdoors, maintain safety standards, and teach other volunteers about proper tool use. Some Crew Leader volunteers went on to lead outdoor projects like fence removal and trail restoration, while others served as Lead Gardeners at Treasure Island Demonstration Garden. Their leadership made Community Volunteer Days possible this year!
Museum Education Gardens
The Museum Education Gardens were made possible by the dedicated gardeners who kept everything growing. Gardeners made it possible for 44 kids to learn through camps and youth programming. In 2025, 646 people engaged in garden education!
Join the team! bit.ly/MEGVolunteers
Garden Guides
The Garden Guides engaged with the public and invited visitors to learn more about the gardens. Garden Guides extended education through Farmer’s Market tabling and events at the Eaton House and Bracewell Farm.
Bicycle Champions
Bicycle Champion volunteers ‘championed’ bike education and infrastructure in Windsor this year by organizing bike events and assisting with the Safe Routes to School program. A volunteer planning committee organized Bike Everywhere Day, including running an elementary art contest for the t-shirt design. Safe Routes to School volunteers helped to teach 455 students in 2nd and 3rd grade how to ride bikes safely.
Join the team! bit.ly/BicycleChampionsVolunteer
Out of the 120 students who could not ride a bike before the lessons, volunteers coached 69 of them to independently ride a two wheeled bike around the bike rodeo course.
Trail
Ambassadors
Trail Ambassadors observed and reported on trail conditions throughout the year, helped with special projects to improve our trails and open spaces, and communicated with staff to prevent trail safety issues. Together, this volunteer team covered 11,815 miles of trail for observation in 2025! They also supported the Kyger Open Space grand opening event, distributed trail maps around town, picked up litter, observed wildlife trends, and removed invasive weeds.
Community Events
This year, volunteers supported community events such as Mother- Son and Father- Daughter dances, Yappy Hours, Member Appreciation Nights, Halloween Carnival and Windsor Wonderland. They also honored veterans by placing flags and wreaths at Lakeview Cemetary for Veteran’s Day and Wreaths Across America.
Curator’s Crew
Curator Crew Volunteers embarked on an inventory of the Collections Storage Facility in 2025. This project occurs every five years and would not be possible without the dedication and expertise of volunteers! Together volunteers and staff handled over 11,000 objects, updated over 5,500 database entries, and had a great time doing it!
Recreation Center
Tidy Toddler and Activity Prep volunteers supported youth at the Community Recreation Center by setting up and cleaning up for Preschool Open Gyms, ensuring that crafts and activities were prepared for camps, and making sure that supplies were cleaned between uses. Volunteers kept things running smoothly behind the scenes so that the kiddos could just have fun!
Shoutout to Windsor State Bank and Otero Corporation for their consistent service with this program!
Senior Lunch
Each week, volunteers come to the Community Recreation Center to help assemble and distribute nutritious meals for seniors through the Friendly Fork program. Volunteers boxed an average of 100 meals a day, then distributed them to seniors dining- in and picking up. The consistency and dedication of these volunteers makes a regular meal service possible.
Volunteers grew, harvested and donated 6,205 pounds of fresh produce to the Windsor-Severance Food Pantry this year!
Treasure Island Gardeners
Treasure Island Demonstration Garden volunteers worked wonders in an acre of garden space this year. Volunteers also hosted 4 educational workshops, 3 guided tours, a plein air painting event, and a school field trip. The team created beauty and community in the garden by welcoming hundreds of visitors throughout the year, including Cycling Without Age participants who always left with a bouquet.
Volunteers made improvements to soil health, infrastructure and systems throughout the season and had plenty of fun learning and growing together!
Volunteer Events
Windsor volunteer events bring families, friends, and neighbors together to make a difference. This year, volunteers planted trees, cleared trails, hauled debris, & more.
These events showcase the teamwork and generosity that make Windsor such a special place. Thank you to everyone who volunteered and helped keep our town thriving!
Arbor Day Tree Bagging
Public Services
Date: April 15th
Number of volunteers: 8
Volunteers bagged seedlings for distribution at local elementary schools in honor of Arbor Day. Shoutout to Sustainable Windsor for their help!
Windsor History Museum
Date: May 17th
Number of volunteers: 11
Volunteers helped with spring gardening tasks in the Pollinator Patch and Museum Education Garden. They also helped with landscaping the grounds in time for opening day.
Museum Spring Cleanup
Volunteers prepared the garden for summer by spreading compost, planting annuals and bulbs, and repairing pathways.
Treasure Island Demonstration Garden
Date: May 31st
Number of volunteers: 32
Spring Garden Clean Up
National Trails Day
Highlands Ridge Open Space
Date: June 7th
Number of volunteers: 11
Volunteers honored National Trails Day by re-routing an eroded trail, installing trail closure fencing, and re-seeding a restoration area.
Volunteers re-surfaced an eroded pathway, improved landscaping through weeding and de-thatching, collected litter, and cleaned up their neighborhood park.
Heights Park
National Public Lands Day Poudre
Date: September 27th
Number of volunteers: 13
Fall Garden Cleanup
Treasure Island Demonstration Garden
Date: October 4th
Number of volunteers: 22
Volunteers prepared the garden for the winter by turning over the perennial beds and adding compost, removing annuals, cleaning and labeling tools, and reorganizing supplies.
Highland Ridge Open Space
Date: October 18th
Number of volunteers: 22
Fall Trail Restoration
Volunteers assisted with handwork and grading on a newly cut trail as part of a trail tr-route process for erosion control.
Corporate Responsibility
Buckingham Foundation
Date: August 26th
Number of volunteers: 5
Otter Products
Date: May 15th
Number of volunteers: 11
For their annual day of service, Buckingham Foundation volunteers visited the Treasure Island Demonstration Garden to assist with a 300 pound morning vegetable harvest.
At their annual closed2open day of service, Otter Products employees completed their build of the community garden at the Historic Halfway Homestead. They built raised and inground garden beds.
Gotham Greens
Date: April 24th
Number of volunteers: 46
Nordson Medical
Date: May 8th
Number of volunteers: 8
The Packing Team from Gotham Greens Windsor greenhouse visited Eastman Park to help with a variety of Earth Day tasks, including cleaning out stormwater drains, removing litter and debris around the pond, and repairing erosion around the river.
Volunteers from Nordson Medical joined Larimer County Natural Resources at Kyger Open Space & River Bluffs for a barbed- wire fence removal project. They removed almost 1,200 ft of fence and recycled over 1,800 lbs of material, clearing the way for wildlife to move freely through the corridor.
Church Volunteer Groups
Foundations
Date: June 21st
Number of volunteers: 19
Mill City Church
Date: July 12th
Number of volunteers: 21
For their annual Serve Day, Foundations volunteers visited the Historic Halfway Homestead. They moved 30 bales of straw to fill raised garden beds and pulled several bags of weeds from around the site.
Mill City Church volunteers gathered at Coyote Gulch Park for a family park cleanup day. They cleaned up a horseshoe pit, pulled several yards of noxious weeds, and found lots of adorable tiny toads!
Jesus Christ Church of the Ladder Day Saints
From the Jesus Christ of the Ladder Day Saints, a youth group assembled picnic tables for Chimney Park and a men’s group assisted with spring vegetable garden setup at Treasure Island Demonstration Garden.
Eagle Scout Projects
Student Service Learning
Date: Summertime
Number of volunteers: 4
In 2025, Eagle Scouts visited the Museum Education Gardens, where they resurfaced and repainted the old garden shed. At Treasure Island Demonstration Garden, they built and installed new harvest tables and compost bins for vegetable production. At the Homestead Community Garden, they built two wheelchair-accessible raised garden beds.
Volunteers spent over 100 combined hours learning about agriculture and food systems through service. This mighty youth volunteer team installed a drip irrigation system at the new Homestead Community Garden, researched and built a compost demonstration area, created pollinator habitats, assisted with the planting and harvesting of vegetables at Treasure Island Demonstration Garden, and supported food distribution at the Windsor- Severance Food Pantry.
School Volunteer Groups
Mountainview Elementary
Date: April 22th
Number of volunteers: 98
The Mountainview Elementary 3rd graders class visited Eastman Wetlands. They released praying mantis and ladybugs at the garden and observed the health of the wetlands ecosystem with a BioBlitz.
Treasure Island Demonstration Garden
Date: April 15th
Number of volunteers: 6
RAM Scholars visited the Treasure Island Demonstration Garden and participated in an agricultural servicelearning project, assisting with spring gardening tasks and digging a zinnia flower border.
Volunteer Photographers
Charlie and Richard, our intreped Volunteer Photographers, are to thank for most of the photos in this report. This team ventured out to countless Town volunteer activities and special events, braving high winds, large crowds, difficult hikes, heat, cold, and the elements. They worked with great enthusiasm to document the special moments in our community this year.
Thanks for all your hard work!
Volunteer Gatherings
Thank you for joining us and making this year so successful.
We hope to see you for another great year in 2026!
