30 Years of Caring for Lancashire's Hedgehogs 

An established Registered Charity providing specialist care and treatment for sick, injured and orphaned wild hedgehogs, with the aim to rehabilitate them when fit and healthy back into the wild. 

Click here to call us For Emergency Advice Call 07983 310675

Found a Hedgehog?
Does it need rescuing? It might not.

First things first - do not panic, assess the situation in our step by step instruction guide.
Click here for our step by step guide

We would love your support

Hedgehogs have now been added to the Red List for British Mammals and classed as vulnerable to extinction.

Here are some examples of how your donation will be used:


£2.50 will pay for two days of electricity for the hospital, or two tins of critical care food for a very sick hedgehog.


£5 will pay for a course of life-saving antibiotics or feed a hedgehog  for a week. 


£10 will pay for either:

One can of specialist milk to hand rear orphans. Something we do every 1 to 2 hours when they are very small.  

Pay for a large fleece blanket which when cut to size will provide warm bedding for several hedgehogs. 


£20 will help us to pay for:


- Two months of our website hosting - or

- Two months of telephone costs for our rescue helpline.

Click here to donate

£5 will pay for either:

  • A course of life-saving antibiotics.  
  • It could also allow us to pay for petrol so we can release rescued and treated hedgehogs back into the wild near to where they were found.

Click here to donate

£10 will pay for either:

  • One can of specialist milk to hand rear orphans. Something we do every 1 to 2 hours when they are very small.  
  • Pay for a large fleece blanket which when cut to size will provide warm bedding for several hedgehogs. 

Click here to donate

£20 will help us to pay for:


- two months of our website hosting through which we receive donations and provide advice.

- two months of telephone costs for our rescue helpline.

Click here to donate

Paying via your bank

A bank transfer is when money is sent from one bank account to another. Transferring money from your bank account is usually fast and free to set up and make a one off payment or set up a standing order. 


How to make a bank transfer to us


There are a number of ways you can make a bank transfer.


- Online bank transfers. Log in to your online bank account and select the option for making a payment. Follow the instructions on screen to enter the correct details. Some banks also offer smartphone apps that allow you to transfer money.


- Telephone transfers. Call your bank’s telephone banking service. The bank’s customer services representative will guide you through the process - in some cases you might be guided through by an automated recording.


- In-branch bank transfers. If you have the money in cash, you can pay it into our bank account in-branch.


Our bank details are:


Lancashire Hedgehog Care Trust

We bank with Santander


Sort code: 09-01-29

Account no: 35419136

Help Us To 

  • Save a species in decline

    Hedgehogs are one of the UK's much-loved creatures and have seen a harsh decline in the last 70 years. Warmer winters, new roads and building projects have significantly affected their habitats and behavioural patterns.


    Many casualties we receive often require weeks of treatment which can be very costly as well as extremely time consuming. The costs of medical care, veterinary bills and food are always a major item for us.  


    We are rescuing, treating and returning to the wild countless hedgehogs that would die without help and we fund this with our own fundraising efforts and by public donations.  We do not receive Government or Council funding.  


    By supporting our work you will be making a direct contribution to the survival of our local wildlife. We are always very grateful to receive a donation no matter how small, and every single one really helps.

  • Raise funds for specialist equipment

    Much of our equipment used over the last 30 years is slowly being replaced with modern alternatives.

    We rely on donations to buy incubators, heat pads, indoor and outdoor cages.


    Other items that would help in general and used on a daily basis include: 

    • Fleece material to make blankets for bedding
    • Newspapers
    • Kitchen rolls
    • Meat based cat food
    • Fleece bobble hats (make sleeping bags for the baby hedgehogs)
    • Strong black bin bags
    • Small/medium size packing boxes to send out fundraising items
    • Parcel tape, sellotape
    • 2nd class / 2nd class large stamps
    • Jiffy bags - new or used

  • Pay for professional services

    Our centre is a hive of activity 24 hours a day 7 days a week, just like an NHS hospital our work is focused on the patients. 


    We need to raise funds to be able to pay for professional help with veterinary services, book keeping and accounting, the website and everything that takes our time away from treating the hedgehogs in our care, but this costs money.

  • Find suitable pre-release sites

    We aim to release all our hedgehog patients back into the wild, and indeed have a very high success rate of doing so.  


    A great deal of time, effort and expense goes into getting a sick or injured hedgehog to this stage, and therefore it is vitally important that it is released back into it's natural habitat as safe as possible, and preferably into the area where originally found. 


    We are also constantly searching for suitable pre-release gardens for hedgehogs needing a little time outdoors prior to release, to make sure they are able to manage back in the wild. Large enclosed gardens that can provide a more natural wild habitat are ideal.  


    This allows us to make sure the hedgehog has nest building capabilities and able to forage for it's natural food whilst being monitored from a distance in a safe outdoor environment.  We train the property owners in what they need to do if they wish to help us.

Andy's Hedgehog TV

Andy has a camera set up to monitor the comings and goings of the hedgehogs that visit his garden.  The latest exciting news is that one of his hedgehogs has been seen very busy building a nest.
Follow this link to see some frantic nest building!

https://youtu.be/5vVZ-21XnBw 


Visit Andy's website at hedgehogtv.co.uk  for information on how to help hedgehogs in your garden.


You can also view the excellent videos on his Youtube channel to see the nightly visitors in his garden.


Thank you Andy for doing this to help hedgehogs.

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