Help us buy new hutches for Hedgepigs & Hoglets

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Help Hedgepigs & Hoglets Rescue buy new vet grade hutches for our hedgehogs and small wild mammals as our old cages are cracked & broken

by Jill Dodds in Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom

 New stretch target

We have been absolutely amazed at the generosity of everyone who has donated to our crowdfund appeal, we have insufficient words to describe how grateful we are.  Thank you to you all, particularly ofcourse aviva community fund and individual employees, and your lovely words of support.  We are now able to pay for our Poltec Cages (including the VAT on them!) and the only thing we need to buy before winter sets in is an air conditioning/heater unit from LJ Refrigeration at a cost of £1,750.  This will keep our hedgehogs cool in heatwaves and warm on frosty days, because, like us when we are in hospital they need to be comfortable and warm, but not over hot.  This is why we have set a stretch target.  Thankyou do very much 🙏 🦔


  • 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)

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