Welcome to Lancashire Hedgehog Care

From humble beginnings in a tiny garden shed, we have worked tirelessly for over fifteen years to build our Charity up to what it is today.

But all this is now at serious risk of being lost.

Sadly, this comes just at the time when hedgehogs have been identified as a species in desperate need of help to survive. Hedgehog numbers have more than halved in the last five years and continuing trends would lead to its extinction by 2025.

Hedgehogs now have to rely on urban gardens for their food and shelter, and consequently are coming across many more dangers in doing so, such as falling into garden ponds, getting trapped down drains and holes, becoming entangled in garden netting, burnt in bonfires and the horrific injuries we see caused by strimmers. They die in carelessly discarded items of litter such as ice-cream tubs, after getting stuck inside them looking for a potential meal, or suffocate when they investigate the contents of an empty yoghurt pot or tin can. They get caught in plastic can holders, poisoned by pesticides, slug pellets and weedkiller in fields and gardens. And that’s before the carnage that we all see on the roads.

We rescue, treat and return to the wild hundreds of hedgehogs that would otherwise perish, but we can no longer continue to do this without help. We do not receive any funding from the RSPCA, Government sources or from anywhere else. We are completely self-funded and rely greatly on the kindness and generosity of the public, along with our own fundraising efforts to keep the Rescue Centre up and running.

We work 18 hour days all year round. This involves nursing very ill hedgehogs, hand feeding babies around the clock, administering medications, cleaning cages, collecting casualties, handling new admissions, trips to and from the Vets, answering endless phone calls (day and night) and emails nationwide requiring advice on hedgehogs, mountains of paperwork, fundraising to keep going etc, etc. We are happy and more than willing to do all this, but we desperately need your support to continue.