Vote for “Hedgehog Close” in the 2018 Charity Film Awards!
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Please vote for “Hedgehog Close” in the 2018 Charity Film Awards!
We are thrilled to announce that our charming short film has been nominated, but now we really need your help as we enter the public vote stage!
Please vote for us here: https://www.charityfilmawards.com/videos/hedgehog-close
Hedgehog Housing Census!
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Do you have a hedgehog house in your garden?
Today, #HedgehogStreet has launched the first ever national hedgehog house survey, in partnership with the University of Reading and the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.
If you have a hedgehog house, take part in the survey today: https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/housingcensus/ and help us find out more about these spikey visitors so we can better protect them.

A sad day for BHPS
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We are deeply saddened to announce that our Founder, Major Adrian Coles MBE has passed away.

Major Coles, who became nationally known as Major Hedgehog, founded the British Hedgehog Preservation Society in 1982 and was instrumental in giving the hedgehog the high profile that it now enjoys. Our Charity now has 11,000 members, publishes regular newsletters and works tirelessly to improve awareness of the plight of the hedgehog.
Major Coles was also a Shropshire County Councillor, Civic Head and Chairman, former Chairman of his local District Council (South Shropshire) and former Chairman of his Parish Council. He was well known to Members of Parliament for his campaigns to help the hedgehog, had appeared many times on television and given countless radio broadcasts.
He was awarded an MBE for his services to the community on 2000, was an Honorary Alderman of South Shropshire and was a Freeman of the City of London.
More recently he moved to London and became a Chelsea Pensioner, donning the famous scarlet coat with pride.
Major Coles died peacefully at Royal Hospital Chelsea on 23rd March 2017 aged 86.
“We are deeply saddened by loss of someone who did so much for hedgehogs. We owe a debt of gratitude to Adrian, who leaves our thriving active Charity as a legacy to us all. Our work will continue” said Fay Vass, Chief Executive of the BHPS – “that is what Major Hedgehog would have wished.”
Our thoughts are with Adrian’s family at this very sad time.
Twiggy sparks bonfire night hedgehog checks!
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Bonfire Night Posters
Please click on the images below to view/download a copy of the bonfire night posters.


BHPS and The Times Newspaper
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The Times selected BHPS as one of their four Charities for their Christmas Appeal in 2015.
Here are some of the articles that featured: Military Man On A Mission To Save The Hedgehog:






State of Britain’s Hedgehogs 2015 released!
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Ben Fogle asks for people to remember hedgehogs on bonfire night
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The Day of the Hedgehog
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‘Wild About Gardens’ Week
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