Brockworth Hedgehog Rescue

07/06/2026

TRANSPORT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

We’re looking for help with transporting hedgehogs from the Forest of Dean to the rescue in Brockworth.

We cover a large area which includes all areas of the Forest of Dean including Newent and Ross on Wye areas.

We are the closest rescue that has a large capacity and need help when hedgehogs need to come in.

Transport volunteering is on an as and when basis, when we need transport we will post on the transport group, if you can help you reply and the details are sent to you. We will provide you with a carrier and heat pad.

If you can help please visit the volunteering page on our website where our forms can be downloaded and emailed to us.

We will then get in contact and arrange for you to be added to the group.

Brockworthhedgehogrescue.co.uk

06/06/2026

05/06/2026

One of todays admission was this little girl from Ross on Wye

She is very dehydrated which can be seen in her skin, we have started to slowly rehydrate her as well as gradually giving her formula so not to upset her tummy with the change from mums milk to puppy formula.

So we now have 3 hour and 2 hourly hand feeds.

Tonight the feed schedule is

6pm x 3
8pm x 1
9pm x 2
10pm x 1
12am x 3

Then at 6am we start them all again 🦔🦔🦔

04/06/2026

Things we’re in need of at the moment are kitten biscuits, wet kitten food, tinned brambles, and Royal Canin starter pate

Hoglets eat a lot and love nothing more than spreading their food around their pod.

04/06/2026

It’s June and the crazy summer season has hit with a bang, more hedgehogs coming in, more hoglets being born, 3 hourly hand feeds starting at 6am and finishing at midnight.

Today we have had a total of 8 volunteers in the rescue with a total of 40 hours worked and we still didn’t get everything done.

Our priority has to be the care of the hedgehogs and then the fundraising which we’re currently preparing for a weekend at the Orchard Street Market, as well as looking after the hedgehogs we also have to raise the £7000 a month it costs to run the rescue, without the funds we cannot run.

So please bear with us, please understand that we’re doing our best at a time when we’re also having to deal with anti-social behaviour, criminal damage, police reports and council reports.

On top of our continued daily work with the APHA and DEFRA fighting and learning about the Hedgehog Arterivirus, we’re also helping other rescues across the UK to deal with positive cases in both supporting and advising roles.

So we are slower in responding to messages and emails, we cannot monitor Facebook comments on our own posts or others that we’re being tagged in, so please if you want to ask about a hedgehog follow the instructions on the admission receipt given to you when the hedgehog was admitted, but understand there will be a delay, please call us if you have a hedgehog in need as that will be the quickest way of contacting us to get it admitted. If you have other questions etc either email us or message us through our page and we will do our best to reply when we can.

31/05/2026

One of 19 admissions over this weekend, 10 yesterday and 9 today.

This little one came in with his 2 brothers from Bentham.

We now have 63 hoggies in the rescue which includes 6 mums with 24 hoglets between them, the 3 boys from Bentham and we’re hand feeding 3, sadly we lost the injured hoglet from Bristol but his brother is still with us and now eating for himself between top up feeds. We had 2 hoglets with eyes closed from Matson yesterday who are being hand fed.

It’s a really busy time for the volunteers both in the rescue and also at fundraising events, it costs around £6k-7k a month to run the rescue so fundraising is really important because we do not get any government or council funding, we are all volunteers so no one takes a wage or expenses, and we also have to raise all the money needed to run. 🦔🦔🦔

31/05/2026

Sadly we need to look for alternative premises in Brockworth, please can anyone who knows of anything locally please let us know. We have been looking online but nothing we can afford at the moment.

Will consider outside of Brockworth but obviously the costs will be more as we will need to change our name.

We have to put these guys first so it needs to be quiet especially at night.

27/05/2026

A prime example of why feeding stations must have 2 entrances, as a rescue we have seen hedgehog aggression increase where food and the ladies are involved.

They’re like the terrier of the dog breed

27/05/2026

This evening we did a mum and hoglets nest clean out.

Here they’re waiting while we made their clean beds

We did put the mum of 8 back in the nest and her 8 hoglets in the room with the food in an attempt to give her a few minutes break, she didn’t even get that