Events & Training Sessions

Bat walk at Queen's Valley Saturday 29 August

Jersey Bat Group are returning to Queen’s Valley reservoir for International Bat Night 2026. Please join us in detecting our flying mammals.

Join the Jersey Bat Group for a walk at dusk around Queen’s Valley Reservoir, with bat detectors, as we celebrate International Bat Night.

We’ll provide an initial talk on the island’s bats, handout the detectors and show you how to use them. Just after sunset, we will start walking along the paths of Queen’s Valley and when we hear bats we will stop the walk and look in the sky for sightings. The walk will take approximately 1.5 hours.

Tickets £10. Children 12 and under are free.

If you’ve bought a ticket and would like a like a complimentary membership to the Jersey Bat Group for the rest of 2026 & 2027, please complete a membership form. The form and instructions are available on our website.

Very windy and very wet weather can puts bats off. The weather forecast will be reviewed 48 hours prior to the event and disruptions will be communicated.

Meet at the top car park (north), off the B28.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1997389593041?aff=oddtdtcreator

meet & greet at Francis Le Sueur Centre Tuesday 14 July

Come and join the Jersey Bat Group for a meet & greet evening at The Frances Le Sueur Centre, La Mielle de Morville, Jersey JE3 2FN, from 7.30pm — a chance to gather, catch up, and share our enthusiasm for bats over a cup of tea.

This is an informal get-together with no set agenda or presentations — just a friendly place to gather in a bat friendly space. You may find yourself discovering a new place to enjoy seeing bats, or get involved in a roost visit, or find an interest and get involved in research.

You don’t need to be a member to attend (so please tell your friends). It’s a great chance to drop in and see what we’re all about.

We will be heading out for a walk to find some bats (weather permitting). The walk will start just before dusk at 8.45pm and expect a 10.15pm finish.

How to Host Bat Walks

How to host bat walks – Tuesday 9th June, 8pm at the Frances Le Sueur Centre.

The Jersey Bat Group invite you to come along and find out how to host a bat walk and share you love for bats with the community. As well as learning skills to host your own walk you will have the opportunity to find how to deepen your knowledge of this amazing creature.

We’ll cover content accessible for all, explore the resources and establish how to plan a good route. Weather-dependant, we’ll be using detectors.

you will also find out more about the Jersey Bat Group and our different events.

Please contact us at enquiries@wheat-goose-884040.hostingersite.com to let us know if you are attending.

AGM ANNOUNCEMENT

Hi Jersey Bat Group members,

I hope some other members are lucky enough to be seeing bats. The warm weather has meant a few of our members have already seen their first common pipistrelle of 2026 along some green lanes.

Jersey Bat Group AGM, Tuesday April 14th, 6pm

Jersey Bat Group will be hosting their AGM on the 14th April 2026 at 6pm.

Location: Arthur Mourant Room, Société Jersiaise, Pier Road, St. Helier

As before, our management committee will be bidding farewell to Hannah Le Morvan, as Research Officer, who will not be standing for another term. Her academic knowledge, sincere endeavours to expand knowledge and her collaborative nature will be sorely missed.

It does mean that we will be voting to the following roles at our AGM:

– Chairperson. Interest expressed by potential candidate.

– Treasurer. One candidate – Jonathan Le Maistre (acting Treasurer).

– Research Officer. Candidates welcomed.

– Fundraising Officer. Candidates welcomed.

If any potential applicants would like to discuss the roles and their place on the committee, please email enquiries@wheat-goose-884040.hostingersite.com to get in touch.

All roles are honorary, without remuneration.

🦇 We look forward to seeing you all there 🦇

This is the first of our winter talks. Piers Sangan, one of our leading ecologists in Jersey, will be talking about Jersey’s rarer bats.

Here is link to Eventbrite. Talks are free but donations gratefully accepted.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1837791597139?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Jersey Bat Group are holding a series of online winter talks on Bats. These talks are free but we are always grateful for donations. Please use link below to make your reservation using Eventbrite. You can make the donation as small as you wish – thank you. Here is link for the first talk on 26 Nov.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1837791597139?aff=oddtdtcreator