Advice

The National Bat Helpline can answer your questions and concerns about bats and give you advice on bat care, building works and reporting bat crime.

• Call the BCT helpline on  0345 1300 228

• Monday – Friday 9:30am – 4:30pm
• May to Sept  there is an additional Out of Hours Helpline 5:30pm – 10:30pm which is run by volunteers and is for emergency calls only.

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Links to more advice, those in bold on our website, the rest on the BCT website:

Want TO WATCH BATS?

• How to watch Bats  
• What bat is that?  
• Advice on choosing the right Bat Detector

Coming across Bats

• Help with injured or grounded bat
  • Help! I’ve found a bat
  • How to contain a bat
  • Call the National Bat Helpline –  0345 1300 228
• Living with bats in a property
  • Requests for a bat survey in Somerset  
• Advice for Vets – “A bat has being brought to our surgery”

Bats in developments and building works

• Bats and the law
  • Reporting Bat Crime
• Concerned a development may harm bats? 
  • SBG standing advice on planning applications    
• Advice for builders, developers and property maintainers
  • Bats and Breathable or Modern Roofing Membranes
• I need to carry out work that may affect bats
• Licences to permit activities relating to bats
• Bat found during building works
• Help and advice for churches with bats

Helping Bats

• Gardening for bats
• Bat Boxes  – Info pack