Berks & South Bucks Bat Group
Working to conserve our local bats
Berks & South Bucks Bat Group
Working to conserve our local bats
Welcome to the home of the Berks & South Bucks Bat Group
We are a small but active group of volunteers working to help bats across Berkshire and south Buckinghamshire. To find out what we have been doing recently check out our blog.
Our main aims are:
To promote and further the conservation of bats and their habitats.
To raise awareness of bats and their conservation status.
Our key activities include:
Recording and monitoring bat populations in our area
Carrying out conservation projects such as bat box schemes, improving roost sites and developing potential sites.
Organising talks and educational events throughout the year.
Rescuing and rehabilitating grounded or injured bats.
Indoor winter talks
Upcoming events
Throughout the year we undertake a range of activities.
Our first indoor meeting of the winter at 7:30pm on Tuesday 27 October will be a round-up of the activities bat group members have been up to this summer with short talks, including: Claire Andrews with highlights from the post-release survival of hand-reared & rehabbed bats project Rebecca Carter-Whitehead with an update on the Legoland [...]
Earley Environmental Group & the bat group are hosting a screening of the feature film The Invisible Mammal, a beautifully filmed multi-stranded story of bat conservation in the USA, but with relevance to what we are doing here in the UK. The event is free to attend at the University of Reading but we ask [...]
Latest news
Keep up to date with the latest news.
First experiences of bat box checking
Bat box checks : first impressions As a follow-on from Claire’s recent blog post about the bat group’s monitoring at Clayfield copse, near Reading, two volunteers new [...]
We need your help!
You can send us your records of bats by filling in our form here.
If you have found an injured or grounded bat, call the National Bat Helpline on 0345 1300 228
