Prickles and Paws has faced its busiest ever year and considerable pressures due to covid-19 and the closure of other rescues. The organisation is having to rapidly expand to accommodate an ever-increasing number of hedgehogs in need. Before the end of the year we will likely have admitted over 1,000 hedgehogs.
Caring for this number of animals requires specialist equipment such as incubators and has resulted in a sharp increase in veterinary and medication costs. We have ambitious plans for the future involving moving to new premises, expanding our volunteering and education programmes whilst increasing our capacity for hedgehogs and eventually we hope other wildlife. This money will help us to continue to provide the essential rescue and rehabilitation service for unwell, injured and orphaned hedgehogs whilst also helping make our expansion plans become a reality.
