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New members to the group are always welcome. If you want to come along to one of our indoor meetings to get a flavour of our activities please do so. Many of our events are for members only so there is definitely an advantage to joining.

The membership fee is £7.50 valid for 12 months from 1^stJanuary in any year. New members joining after 31^stSeptember will receive membership until 1^st January the following year.

There are FOUR ways to join:

1: In person at one of our indoor meetings with a completed membership form or…

2: By filling in and emailing us the membership form and making an online bank payment to:
Ac/No 252 62 660 Sort Code 77-22-07 please use the name of the person joining as the payment reference, or…

3: Paying directly via Paypal (send money to nottsbatgroup@gmail.com) and filling in and emailing the membership form.

Whatever method you use it is very important that you return a completed membership form. Without it we will be unable to contact you. Paying by PayPal or by bank transfer does not give us permission to contact you. The form is available as either a Word file or PDF. Please return by email to nottsbatgroup@gmail.com

Word – membership from

PDF – membership form

As blind as a bat?

Not true, in fact bats have quite good eyesight, especially at dusk. Fruit bats have large eyes which gather in a lot of light giving them good night vision to find their food. Microbats, although possessing reasonable eyesight from their much smaller eyes, have a much more efficient method of finding their way in the dark called echolocation. They shout extremely loudly, at frequencies too high for us to hear, and listen for the returning echoes. The echo gives them all the information they need about their surroundings and where their food is. It really is amazing that a bat can locate, whilst flying, a tiny flying insect in total darkness.