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We are a quarter of the way to our @biggive.bsky.social #AVoiceForBats #ChristmasChallenge target.

Thank you to everyone who has donated already. This is a great opportunity to help 🦇 bat conservation by having your DONATIONS DOUBLED. Please share widely too #BatsNeedFriends #lovebats
🦇 Our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge campaign 'A voice for bats' is live! For one week only (until midday, 9 December) every donation up to £10,000 will be DOUBLED.

Donations must be made here: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... . Every donation, big or small, helps.
#GivingTuesday
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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After all, why should birds and other mammals have all the fun? Help us choose new collective nouns for 4 of our UK bat species! What should we call a group of common pipistrelles, noctules, Daubenton's bats or brown long-eared bats?
Vote here by 26 Nov: forms.office.com/e/dmHqN3gp7M

#NameThatBat
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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(1/2) 🦇 A group of bats can be called a colony, a cauldron, a cloud or even a camp but with 1,500 bat species worldwide (and 18 right here in the UK!), we think it’s time to get a little more imaginative.

Surely our brilliant bat species deserve some names as unique as they are?

#NameThatBat
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Mexico City’s loss was Penarth’s gain last night. At the inimitable @tedkravitz.bsky.social ‘s book launch event, where I even won the prize for best question of the night. Thank you Ted for great insight and thanks to Griffin Books for organising a great event. Here’s to ‘made up’ jobs!
October 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Donald Trump is ramping up his trade wars and crashing the global economy. He's not sparing the UK from his new tariffs, so why should we give him with a second state visit? Join more than 200,000 of us and add your name to he petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
No second state visit for Trump
Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.  This is the...
you.38degrees.org.uk
May 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Whether you donate £1 or £1000, every contribution helps us discovering more about bats, take action to protect them, educate people about bats and their environment along with enabling more people to get involved in bat conservation. Thank you ♥️ 🦇https://buff.ly/3fyG3uW
January 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).
January 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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All of this.
November 19, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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'This cannot go on': Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time

Food banks in the Trussell network are now handing out 69% more emergency food parcels than 5 years ago

Poverty in the UK is the big issue we should all be talking about
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time
Campaigners are calling for the government to end "the normalisation of a charitable response to poverty", including food banks.
www.bigissue.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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The Antennae Galaxies - Hubble
November 20, 2024 at 6:16 AM
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Great Blue Heron enjoying a sunny day.
#birds
November 19, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.

They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.

Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .

Thank you.
November 15, 2024 at 1:08 PM