Norfolk and Norwich Bat Group

Events

For the latest news of events and training, sign up to emails through our membership page.

Shipdham Bat Walks – Our Chairman Sam will be running regular bat walks at Shipdham throughout the summer season. Please see the Shipdham Bat Walks Facebook Group for more details.

2025 Events

  • AGM followed by Talk: The BTO Acoustic Pipeline : developing a European scale bioacoustics data management platform with Stuart Newson BTO – Friday 24th January, 7:30pm, United Reform Church Ipswich Road, Norwich NR4 6QR
  • Talk: OP Randall – Norfolk Constabulary Rural Crime with PC Chris Shelley – Friday 7th February, 7:30pm, United Reform Church Ipswich Road, Norwich NR4 6QR
  • Talk for Great Hockham Gardening Club – Wednesday 12th February
  • Bat Talk for Greening Holt – Thursday 20th February, 6:30pm, St Andrew’s Church Holt www.dioceseofnorwich.org/event/winter-talks-all-about-bats/
  • Talk: Bechstein’s Bat with Simeon Johnson (BCT) – Thursday 27th February, 7:30pm, Online.
  • Talk for Kenninghall Gardening Club – Thursday 6th March
  • Talk: Bats and Climate Change with Beth Gillie (BCT) – Friday 7th March, 7:30pm, United Reform Church Ipswich Road, Norwich NR4 6QR
  • East of England Bat Conference – Saturday 12th April, Ely College and on Zoom. Book here: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/conferences-symposia/english-regional-bat-conferences/east-of-england-bat-conference
  • Event: Little Ouse Headwaters Project Spring Plant and Craft Fair – Sunday 13th April, 10am – 3pm, The Frith, South Lopham www.lohp.org.uk/events
  • Talk for All Saints Church, Beighton – Tuesday 13th May
  • Bat walk at Great Moulton – Wednesday 14th May, 8:30pm, Meet at Coronation Hall, NR15 2LA. Tickets £7.50, Under 12s free. (Proceeds to Block East Pye Solar) Booking essential, please email bat_walk@yahoo.com.)
  • Event: Open Farm Sunday at Burnham Deepdale – Sunday 1st June
  • Bat walk for Roydon Green Week – Wednesday 11th June, Quaker Wood
  • Roost count at Surlingham Church – Saturday 28th June, Surlingham Church
  • Bat walk at Burnham Deepdale – Saturday July 26th
  • Family Bat Night and Walk at Fairhaven Water Gardens – Tuesday 12th August, 8pm. Booking Essential fairhaven.visihost.co.uk
  • Bat walk for South Yare Wildlife Group – Friday 22nd August
  • Bat walk at Gressenhall – Friday 29th August, Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse. Booking essential www.gressenhall.norfolk.gov.uk
  • International Bat Night! Bat walk at Eaton Park – Saturday 30th August, Eaton Park, Norwich
  • International Bat Night! Bat walk at Shipdham – Saturday 30th August, Shipdham
  • Family Bat Night and Walk at Fairhaven Water Gardens – Wednesday 17th September, 7pm (Booking Essential fairhaven.visihost.co.uk)
  • Bat Walk at Holt Country Park for Muddy Boots Group- Saturday 20th September (Muddy Boots members only)
  • Talk at Watatunga (nr King’s Lynn) – Thursday 25th September
  • Event: Gressenhall Apple Day – Sunday 12th October, Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse (www.gressenhall.norfolk.gov.uk)

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Some selected photos from past events

Wild Lakenham bat walk, 7th August 2023

Bat and boat trip in association with the Broads Authority – Whitlingham Broad Country Park, 17th September 2019.

Gressenhall bat night, 13th September 2019.

Bat and boat trip in association with the Broads Authority – Whitlingham Broad Country Park, 28th August 2019.

Talk on the Bats and Mills in the Broads, by Andrea Kelly, Senior Ecologist at the Broads Authority, Thursday 12th April 2018

Water, Mills and Marshes is the Broads Landscape Partnership Project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project has a big focus on recording and repairing some of the iconic drainage mills on Halvergate marshes, an area which boasts one of the greatest concentration of such mills in Europe. As well as the heritage focus, the enhancement of mills as places for wildlife was explored, with a focus on providing enhancements for bats.

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Keep an eye on the website to see what else is coming up. Contact us if you want to know more.

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Some selected photos from past events

Bat and boat trip in association with the Broads Authority – Whitlingham Broad Country Park, 17th September 2019.

Gressenhall bat night, 13th September 2019.

Bat and boat trip in association with the Broads Authority – Whitlingham Broad Country Park, 28th August 2019.

Talk on the Bats and Mills in the Broads, by Andrea Kelly, Senior Ecologist at the Broads Authority, Thursday 12th April 2018

Water, Mills and Marshes is the Broads Landscape Partnership Project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project has a big focus on recording and repairing some of the iconic drainage mills on Halvergate marshes, an area which boasts one of the greatest concentration of such mills in Europe. As well as the heritage focus, the enhancement of mills as places for wildlife was explored, with a focus on providing enhancements for bats.

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Keep an eye on the website to see what else is coming up. Contact us if you want to know more.

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