Hello, I am Jill Dodds, founder & Animal Care Manager of Hedgepigs and Hoglets Rescue.  We rescue, rehabilitate and release hedgehogs, hoglets and small mammals across west Cornwall.  We have existed since 2016 after I came across a sick hedgehog being pecked by a seagull in the car park where I worked and I had difficulty in finding a local rescue, so I started my own.  We are now a registered charity supported by our trustees and voluntary wild mammal care assistants.  We have recently erected a beautiful new `posh shed` building and we are in the process of finishing the interior.  We were recently granted £2,500 towards new hutches and we have ordered 20 bespoke, single hutches from `Poltec` cages which we badly need; our old cages are cracked and broken, difficult to discinfect and keep clean. 

The invoice for the new hutches will be £7,790 + VAT and the company are going to make them and allow us to pay for them when we are able.  We are hoping to raise as much as we can towards our invoice because our funds have been depleted in erecting and kitting out our new building (insultation, boarding out, electrics, plumbing, flooring, sink and worktops!)

It is important for our biosecurity and zoonotic risk that we have hygenic easy clean hutches and we would be so grateful for any help you are able to give us.

We couldn`t help save endangered wild mammals without your help.  Cornwall`s wildlife is under threat due to human causes and hedgehogs are now classified as vulnerable to extinction in the UK, with rural populations declining by half in the last 2 decades (Cornwall Wildlife Trust)