European hedgehog
These beloved spiny mammals come out at night to hoover up beetles, worms and other invertebrates.
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Help a hedgehog
What to do if you spot a hedgehog out in daylight, how to check your bonfire for hedgehogs and how to create a hedgehog house in your garden.
How to create a hedgehog hole
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
How to build a hedgehog home
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
What to feed hedgehogs and badgers
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
How to check your bonfire for hedgehogs
We can all take steps to protect hedgehogs on bonfire night. Follow our 4 steps to make sure you keep hedgehogs safe.
Hedgerow
Hedgerows are one of our most easily encountered wildlife habitats, found lining roads, railways and footpaths, bordering fields and gardens and on the coast.
Potterhanworth Primary School and 11-year-old ‘Hedgehog Boy’ crowned winners of Lincolnshire Young Environmentalist Awards 2025
The annual competition culminated at Whisby Nature Park on Wednesday 21 May with victory for Potterhanworth’s enthusiastic and resourceful Eco Club among the schools and groups, and the individual…
Lincolnshire's virtual nature challenge
The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust have launched an exciting weekly nature challenge: The Hedgehog Awards.
Join Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and Timmy Time on a big adventure for little legs!
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust’s Hedgehog Walk will get families out walking for wildlife with Timmy and Apricot from Timmy Time.
Naturehoods
We're growing wild heroes - working with local communities to create Naturehoods. From planting wildflowers to making hedgehog holes in-between garden fences, find out how you can get involved.
Create a home for wildlife
Learn how to encourage hedgehogs, build a bird nest box or provide a home for insects.