Events, Activities & Volunteering opportunities

We are looking for volunteers to assist with some Local Wildlife Sites and churchyard surveys for 2025.

We are currently updating the documents for 2025. Once we have done this you will be able to sign-up to take part via a form that will be accessible from here, watch this space!

Ash Wildlife Friendly Village are holding their annual Wildlife Conference on 15th February 2025 and the topic is Badgers and Bats.

The itinerary is as follows:

Martyn Cooke, a bat acoustic expert and representative for SonoBat, will be providing valuable advice on how to improve your recording techniques for better quality recordings when surveying for bats. 

This will be presented via Zoom and a link will be sent to members nearer the time.

Our meetings/Zooms are usually on a Thursday, but this one will be on a Wednesday.

This is a Bat Conservation Trust orgainsed event and will be held at Surrey University in Guildford.

The South East of England Bat Conference is an opportunity for volunteer and professional bat workers in the South East to spend time together updating their knowledge, sharing best practice, developing their skills and catching up on the latest 'bat chat'. The day will include a mixture of short and long talks on projects or sharing new knowledge and a choice of practical workshops. There will also be latest news from bat groups and plenty of time for catching up with batty friends or making some new batty acquaintances.

This one-day event is open to everyone, with the programme being created from input from the South East of England and the Channel Islands. The area covered is: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Greater London, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Sussex and the Channel Islands.

Tickets are on sale now. https://www.bats.org.uk/events/south-east-of-england-bat-conference