Events, Activities & Volunteering opportunities

If you'd like to help bats from home, this could be for you. The Bat Conservation Trust are looking for volunteers to take calls from members of the public on the Volunteer Bat Care Helpline. 

When bats are found in need of assistance the BCT Helpline is the first port of call for advice. 

The training days are on the 21st, 23rd and 25th April and the deadline to apply is March 31st.

For further information and to apply, click here.

The Bat Conservation Trust has a range of different online training courses, webinars, talks and modules available, ideal for doing in your own time. 

See here for those currently available. 

These sessions are now fully booked. 

If you missed the chance to sign up you can still fill in the form, but spaces may only become available if we have any cancellations.

If you’d like to brush up your endoscope skills by getting some practise and experience in their use, then this field day could be for you. It may be of particular interest to those of you working towards a licence.

Level 2, WML-CL18 licence holders will be leading an inspection of the trees at Doddington Place, which has many old, dead and dying trees with PRF.

Please complete the form and we’ll be in touch in due course.

In celebration of International Bat Appreciation Day we are hosting a virtual screening of the award winning documentary film about bat conservation and women in science, The Invisible Mammal. 

It follows an all-woman team of biologists who set out to save bats from a deadly fungal disease. When the COVID-19 pandemic interrupts their work, they are sent down a path of discovery that illuminates the connections between bat conservation and the spread of infectious disease.

Members will receive an email with a link to register for the screening in due course. No special software is required to view the film and you can watch it on your PC or tablet.

 Click to see the trailer.

The Tonbridge and Malling Leisure Trust have laid on some bat walks for the local residents and invited the bat group to lead.  

If you'd like to help, please email

Members of the public can purchase tickets here.

N.B. This event is not organised by the bat group, please contact the T & M Leisure Trust if you have any questions about tickets.

We have been invited to attend SEA's (Sandgate Environmental Action) green fair and launch of Wild About Sandgate. 

The event will include nature-based activities for all ages and wildlife gardening advice in a dedicated zone for wildlife and nature organisations, including the Kent Bat Group and the likes of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.

We'd like 4 volunteers to help out. You don't need to have any experience. If you'd like to help and/or would like more information about what it involves to man the stand, please email . Thank you.

The Tonbridge and Malling Leisure Trust have laid on some bat walks for the local residents and invited the bat group to lead.  

If you'd like to help, please email

Members of the public can purchase tickets here.

N.B. This event is not organised by the bat group, please contact the T & M Leisure Trust if you have any questions about tickets.

The Tonbridge and Malling Leisure Trust have laid on some bat walks for the local residents and invited the bat group to lead.  

If you'd like to help, please email

Members of the public can purchase tickets here.

N.B. This event is not organised by the bat group, please contact the T & M Leisure Trust if you have any questions about tickets.