Swindon Bats

27/12/2025

21/12/2025

Last night was a blast! It was our annual Christmas party. Organised by our activities coordinators, Andrea and Ali.
We were very grateful to the free masons for allowing us to use the Masonic Lodge as our venue, and providing wonderful catering and a DJ.
It really got everyone into the Christmas spirit.
Congratulations to the winner, and runners up of the absent friends competition. This year Derek took home the top trophy, with Andy and Stuart coming a close runner up. Honourable mentions go to Sue, Georgia and Andrea for their fantastic position in the table as well.
We hope everybody has a happy and healthy Christmas, and a wonderful New Year.
🦇 🎄

14/12/2025

Merry Christmas to our wonderful volunteers and committed committee members.

We are so thankful for everything you do 💓

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13/12/2025

Our Brilliant Andy and Stu! 🦇

Big thanks to British Blind Sport Tenpin and The Primary Club for everything you do to help us play accessible Sports at national and competitive levels. We couldn't do any of this without you!🏆🎳

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06/12/2025

Thank you to everybody who came down to say hello at the Christmas craft fair today. We had a lovely time and feel very festive 🎄 🦇
Here are some lovely photos from the day

05/12/2025

Stuck for something to do this weekend?
Why not come along to the Christmas craft fair at Swindon hub in the town centre?
Some of our very talented. Bats members have been getting crafty and will be selling all the wonderful creations. From candles to coasters to blankets, we’ve got everything.
Hope to see you there between 10 and 4! 🦇 🎄

24/11/2025

Have you gotten into the Christmas spirit yet?
We certainly have after today. Today saw our Christmas challenge with.

Zurich Community Trust Where we had a Bats versus Zürich kurling match. Christmas music was playing, mince pies and mulled wine was being enjoyed by all and some excellent scores all round.
Zürich snatched the victory this year, so a big well done goes out to them. We look forward to having another challenge with them soon. 🎄 🦇

23/11/2025

This is a really important story.

When someone starts to lose their sight to the point that mobility becomes a struggle there should always be a local service available for Orientation Training and Rehabilitation support.

Having to wait up to a year to use a cane is absolutely appalling!
No one should have to live with such uncertainty or isolation.

Orientation training can change lives and should be a priority for all those who need it with a Visual Impairment.

You can help the RNIB bring this important issue to the Governments attention by signing their petition below and demanding changes:

https://change.rnib.org.uk/page/176328/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=OS&fbclid=IwdGRjcAOPLopjbGNrA48ug2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHqq7fE6LIm6ihUY8m4T2SGQY-7OFDCWKknH6k1JBWIefU_KP4puTsqj3iJlm_aem_cBNLScAL-BxoGku78VwI0g

A man with a rare retina condition says he is disappointed with the support available to him.

22/11/2025

If you're out and about today doing a bit of Christmas Shopping do stop and say hello to our fantastic Volunteers manning the Swindon Bats Charity Bucket Collection Stall at West Swindon Asda! Come and meet our fantastic visually impaired members, grab a sticker or a chocolate for your little people and if you're lucky this morning you may even get a chance to see The Batman himself! 🦇

21/11/2025

Our Bats members have been busy crafting away for our stall at Swindon Hub on Saturday the 6th of December!

If you're out and about doing your Christmas shopping, why not pop in and see us for a chat, grab yourself a homemade gift this Christmas while supporting a local Charity and those with Visual Impairments.

❤️🎄🎁🦇

18/11/2025

Some more brilliant news for Swindon Bats this week!

Throughout July and August our Charity was selected as part of Tesco Stronger Starts in partnership with Groundwork 🛒

Through the scheme Tesco's shoppers across all their local Swindon branches were able to place small tokens into three Charity money boxes. The Charity with the most tokens after the alloted time period wins the most money. All three Charities receive funding of either £500, £1000 or the top award of £1500.🤞🏻

Swindon Bats would like to thank everyone for their support and anyone who kindly put a token into our boxes 🦇🪙

Thanks to your support we managed to take the top award of £1500!🏆

We are so grateful to Tesco, Groundworks and all of our fabulous supporters.

This money will go a long way to supporting our members with a Visual Impairment to access the wider community and accessible sports.

Thank you ❤️

Funding is available to other community groups and charities looking to fund local projects that bring benefits to their local communities.

To find out more visit
tescoplc.com/strongerstarts

18/11/2025

Some more fabulous photographs of our brilliant Teams from the British Blind Sport Tenpin Bowling National Competition 🎳

🦇Bats out of Hell (Georgia Houghton, Bill Williams and Sue Mead)

and

🦇Bats Blind Ambition (Stu Neale and Andy Cooper) who bought home the Championship Trophy🏆