Hedgehogs Plymouth

Volunteering

• You can help by agreeing to help Linda cleaning and feeding the hedghogs daily  This helps as she has more time for other important things like vet visits.   
  
• Become a driver, when a call comes in and a sick or injured hedghog needs to be collected - you will be on call to pick it up and take it to the rescue centre if you are available.   
  
• We need people to collect used new paper, and people to sort and shred paper.  
  
• We need help with advertising the charity and spreading the word of what to do, and what not to do when you find a sick or injured hedgehog.  
  
• We need a place to store hutches, so we can have them ready for when our numbers are high.
• Fundraisers or fundraising ideas are desperately needed.  
  

Please go to the Contact us page and use the contact form if you think you can help.  

• Rabbit hutches and indoor cages, in good useable condition  
  
• Newpapers  
  
• Hedgehog food  
  
• Cat/ dog food wet and dry - not fish!  
  
• Black bags  
  
• Kitchen towel
• Card bard boxes  
  
• Cat carrier boxes  
  
• Hay 
  
• Money for vet bills, a new roof as ours is leaky, food, and much more.  
  

       The best way everyone can help is to grow your own garden as an eco/animal friendly cottage garden.                     

How to help at home;

• Have a wild area or corner where bushes or plants are allowed to grow large enough to provide shelter for birds, hedghogs and other wildlife. Have leaf piles or log piles, make a hedghog box, or even put a piece of board against a wall 
  
• Leave gaps in your fence large enough for hedgehogs to pass through as they roam across large areas looking for food
• Leave out food and water for wild hedghogs - tinned dog or cat food (NOT fish based), crushed cat biscuits but the best idea is specialist hedghog food.
• Cover drains and small holes so they do not trap and injure wildlife. 
  
• Check garden areas are clear before using any gardening tools like strimmers or forks etc 
  
• Move piles of wood etc to a new area before burning.  Check bonfires and other danger zones regularly 
  
• Be aware of netting (including football nets) and other items that may tangle around a hedgehog  
  
• Avoid using slug pellets, rat / mouse poison and other chemicals in the garden 
• Ensure ponds, swimming pools, paddling pools, ditches and any other water features (including rain filled pots have gentle slopes with ridging or rocks and stones along the margins for the hedgehogs to exit by / or covers  

Download this RSPCA fact sheet for more information :

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