Hedgehog Awareness Week, 5th-11th May

Wetheral Parish Council is supporting Hedgehog Awareness Week, which runs from 5th-11th May. The Parish Council has been recognised as a 'Hedgehog Champion' by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society for its work to help preserve hedgehogs, which are under threat in the UK.

Hedgehog Awareness Week takes place every year. It aims to highlight the problems hedgehogs face and how you can help them. This year the Charity is asking people to make a space for hedgehogs to live in their garden. This could be in the form of a log pile or wild area (that will also provide a buffet of creepy crawlies) or a more formal hedgehog home. The Society has a free downloadable plan for building a hedgehog home on their website (www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/hedgehog-homes).

Find out how you can become a Hedgehog Champion here:

https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/…/who-are-the-hedgehog-cham…/