• Hedgehog Rescue Newsletter – Autumn 2021

    Autumn brings an update on all the hedgehogs coming in and out of Hedgehog Rescue… and there’s been a lot. Advice on what to do with your bonfire, to ensure hedgehog safety. And Bristol’s two universities achieve Hedgehog Friendly Campus awards.

  • Hedgehog Rescue Newsletter – Summer 2021

    The Summer 2021 edition tells you how to help our prickly friends during a heatwave; what to do (and what not to do) when you see hoglets out and about; and how to keep family pets away from them.

  • Hedgehog Rescue Newsletter – Spring 2021

    In the Spring edition we share lots of information on how to improve your garden to be more wildlife friendly and bring those hedgehogs into your garden with a just a few easy changes. We have an update on the project to upgrade the...

  • Hedgehog Rescue Newsletter – Christmas 2020

    The yuletide newsletter gives details of the various ways that you can support Hedgehog Rescue – both now and throughout the year. Includes details of our adoption packs, Etsy shop and easyfundraising links. Hints on how to help those hedgehogs who are late to...

  • Christmas 2020 Newsletter

    Hedgehog Rescue Newsletter – Autumn 2020

    Details of important petitions to sign to help protect hedgehogs; how to care for autumn juveniles; hedgehog safety around bonfire night; ways you can help Hedgehog Rescue in the run up to Christmas and more stories from volunteers caring for hedgehogs in their gardens.

  • Hedgehog Rescue Newsletter – Spring/Summer 2020

    Updates on how Hedgehog Rescue is adapting to the Covid-19 restrictions; winning the Bristol Prestige Award for Wildlife Care Service of the Year; news on the refurbishment of the hedgehog hospital; and how to create a hedgehog friendly garden, including feeding station.

  • Coronavirus Guidelines

    As far as we know, there is no reason this virus should affect hedgehogs any more than any other wildlife or companion animal. This is a new disease, and experts in human medicine are having to learn fast. We are not aware of any...

  • Hedgehog Rescue Newsletter – Winter 2019

    In this season’s newsletter we recap on some of the events Hedgehog Rescue undertook over the summer, and share updates on the hedgehogs that have come into the hospital.

  • Volunteering with Hedgehog Rescue

    Our hedgehog hospital looks after about 300 hedgehogs every year, many of which are successfully re-released, with the help of our network of carers and volunteers. This may involve coming to the hedgehog hospital to help with the physical care of the hedgehogs, looking...

  • Hedgehogs in May

    By Kay Bullen Trustee, British Hedgehog Preservation Society This year Hedgehog Awareness Week runs from 5th – 11th May, BHPS is asking everyone to do one extra thing to help hedgehogs that week.  You might build a hedgehog home, put up a poster display...