| Bat partnership
Borrow our detectors and run your own bat walk or survey. Find out what bats are near you.
By surveying your site and sending us your recordings we can add your records to national databases and help us conserve and protect them.
Through this site we aim to support local wildlife and conservation groups, schools, scout groups, churches and bat groups run their own bat activities.
To help we have a range of bat detectors that you can borrow, all you need to do is book them, collect them and return them to Francis Close Hall, University of Gloucestershire, GL50 4AZ. Use the forms on our booking page.
- Why not run a local bat walk for the public at your conservation site, church or school? These can be a great way of introducing people to your site as well as finding out what bat species you have, and helping us conserve and protect them.
- You could use our bat detectors to get involved with national surveys run by the Bat Conservation Trust.
- If you are a teacher we have a range of resources such as lesson plans so you can embed our activities in the classroom. You could then follow this up with a bat walk around or your school, or put up some of our bat recorders and let students know the species you have onsite.
Following your activity we would love a copy of your data – we can then add your findings to national monitoring programmes. This will help us preserve and protect bats in the area.
We are also aiming to create a map of showing bat species across the local area. Once we have some results we will publish this on this website.
This site contains all the resources you need to get involved with our work.
How to identify UK bat species.
How to use a bat detector.
How to run a bat walk.
Have a look at out videos and other guides and see if you can run a bat event for your group.