Heather's Hedgehog Hostel
We are a Cambridgeshire based charity specialising in
hedgehog rescue and rehabilitation
Heather's Hedgehog Hostel
We are a Cambridgeshire based charity specialising in
hedgehog rescue and rehabilitation
We are a Cambridgeshire based charity specialising in
hedgehog rescue and rehabilitation
We are a Cambridgeshire based charity specialising in
hedgehog rescue and rehabilitation
Heather's Hedgehog Hostel is a charity that specialises in providing rehabilitation and comprehensive hedgehog care for Chatteris and the surrounding areas. We take hedgehogs into our hedgehog rescue service, nurse them back to health, and release them when they are back to good health. Find out more about founder Heather Johnson, and our dedicated Trustees, by clicking below.
A massive thank you to everybody who has recently been involved in providing us our temporary second site in Chatteris. We are so grateful and so are our hogs! Plenty more room to move about! A huge thank you again to everybody involved.
We are so grateful to have the support of many volunteers within our community who support us every day. Meet some of our inspiring team of hedgehog volunteers by clicking below!
The hostel is only able to do everything we do because of the generosity of the community. For monetary donations, any amount makes a huge difference, even £1 a week.
To donate, simply scan our QR code, or click here.
Alternatively, click below to find out what items we can accept for our hedgehogs currently in our care.
In recent weeks, we have had a large amount of calls for help whereby one of our hard working volunteers will drive out of their way to collect a poorly hedgehog, as the finder could not bring it in themselves, only for the hedgehog to have passed, no longer be there, or it has been taken it somewhere else. In instances like these, our volunteers have paid their own petrol money and used their own time to help the hostel for an unnecessary trip. Therefore, please do not change your mind, or not inform us if the hedgehog has passed. Please call us and keep us up to date on the situation, so that we can instruct our volunteers if the visit is no longer required.
Also, we do not need to send drivers out to locations, and sometimes it is not possible. We will only send drivers for vulnerable individuals, or as a courtesy if people are stuck with absolutely no way of bringing a hedgehog in. Therefore, if you find a hedgehog, please follow the Bringing in a hedgehog advice on our website, call us, and bring them in during our opening hours when you can.
A hedgehog is not our responsibility until it comes through our door. Thank you.
PLEASE READ: We kindly request that hedgehogs and donations are brought to Heather's Hedgehog Hostel within our opening hours below. This is a hospital for very poorly hedgehogs and we are not a zoo, so visits are not always appropriate. Therefore, if you are able to make us aware of your visit in advance, by calling us, then that would be ideal.
If you have any urgent questions or enquiries, it is best to phone us within our opening hours. For any out of hours support, please refer to our FAQ or Bringing in a hedgehog advice pages where we have a large amount of readily available advice. Thank you for your understanding.