Bath Spa University - Hedgehog Friendly Campus

Hedgehog Street is a campaign established to tackle the stark decline in hedgehog numbers seen over the past two decades. They have lots of resources to help you understand the peril faced by hedgehogs
and tips on how you can help - any actions big or small makes a huge difference! They also have a map that allows you to share any hedgehog sightings.

We are a Silver level Hedgehog Friendly Campus and we are encouraging as many people as we can to sign up! Once you have registered, forward your registration email to: [email protected]

For more information and to sign up for free, head to: www.hedgehogstreet.org/register/

Congratulations to Ella Smith, the winner of the Reusable Cup Design competition! Ella's design will be printed onto Huskups and sold in our catering outlets to raise money for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society! Keep an eye out for the cups, which will be available in 2023!

A special mention should also go to the runners-up, Vi Nelson and Sarah Reece! Thank you to everyone who took part and to all who voted!

Huskup_eco Hedgehog Friendly Campus

✨Voting is now open for our reusable cup design competition! ✨

We’ve had some fantastic entries – thank you to everyone who submitted a design. 🦔🥤

Six designs are shortlisted for the vote, which is limited to Bath Spa email addresses and will close at the end of 11 December.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/H7jgzViuLXP41Umu6

We’ll be announcing the winner on 13 December!

We are very excited to give Bath Spa University students the opportunity to design reusable Huskup_eco cups that will be printed and sold throughout the university to raise money for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society!

The theme is Hedgehogs (European), in support of our Hedgehog Friendly University status!

The competition will be live throughout November and the top 3 designs will win a £25 Amazon Voucher!

To see the Terms and Conditions, and for details on how to enter, check out our website and follow this link: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/cupcomp

Happy bonfire night for tomorrow!🎇

We're posting a day earlier to share some tips on how to keep hedgehogs safe whilst you plan for your bonfires🔥

Here's just a few!

- Build bonfires on the day
- Shine a torch and look through the bonfire before lighting it
- Look and listen for signs of wildlife
- Ensure it is contained

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Once you're finished with your pumpkins after today, please do not dispose of it outside on the floor.

Unfortunately hedgehogs and their bellies do not agree with pumpkins. It can make them feel poorly as they cannot digest it! In a time when they are trying to gain weight for hibernation, this can be detrimental.

Please leave any spare pumpkin up high for the birds instead. 🐦

Have a spook-tastic night!

Meet Parsley, one of the hedgehogs that calls Newton Park campus home! 🦔👋

Parsley got into a spot of bother recently and had to go to the hogspital - but he’s now back to full health and has been released onto campus ready for hibernation season.

Read Parsley’s story and find out more about how we’re a Hedgehog Friendly Campus in our latest blog post!

https://bit.ly/3esN2es

We will be conducting hedgehog surveys on Wednesday the 28th of September at Newton Park and Corston Community Orchard to discover how many hedgehogs we have in our community!

Parsley was discovered this summer after he got himself into a spot of bother with a net and we would like to get a better idea of how many hogs may be out there!

Come along to Twinhoe (TEG04) at 11 am on Wednesday morning for basic training in Hedgehog Sampling and an overview of our hedgehog work at Bath Spa. We will also be taking a trip to Corston Community Orchard to sample hedgehogs in the local area! (Please be aware, the orchard is a 30-minute walk from the university through fields and rough ground, please wear suitable footwear)

These surveys will help us in our bid for Gold in the Hedgehog Friendly Campus awards!

If you have any questions or would like more information, please email [email protected]

With wall to wall sunshine and more to come it's especially important to remember to leave out water for wildlife, it can literally save lives in this hot dry weather. Pop a few pebbles in to allow insects to escape should they fall in.

📷 Ian Harris

From British Hedgehog Preservation Society - You may have seen in the news that West Berkshire Council has blocked an attempt by Newbury Town Council to have hedgehog highways as part of the planning conditions for developments in the town. West Berkshire Council claiming this will overburden planners.
Please sign the petition to let them know this is not the right decision!

West Berkshire Council - ePetition - Make Hedgehog Highways a Planning Condition West Berkshire Council

Happy Hedgehog Awareness Week! 🦔

This week we will be celebrating British Hedgehogs and what we have done at BSU so far to help them thrive. But what is Hedgehog Awareness Week and why does it matter? Head over to our Instagram!

Hedgehog Awareness Week is an annual event, hosted by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (who is 40 this year!)🥳

It aims to increase awareness of the troubles British Hedgehogs face and what we can do to help. Unfortunately British Hedgehogs are classed as vulnerable to extinction.

BHPS also has an annual fundraiser, to support its charitable activities, which includes funding Hedgehog Friendly Campus! You can find the link here: www.justgiving.com/campaign/HAW22

Follow Bath Spa University - Hedgehog Friendly Campus, Hedgehog Friendly Campus and British Hedgehog Preservation Society for tips on how to help our hedgehog friends.

We'll be joining People's Trust for Endangered Species and British Hedgehog Preservation Society for a special event!

🔗 https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/an-evening-with-hedgehog-street/

Metaldehyde Slug Pellets are now banned in the UK - please spread the word!

With this warmer weather the number of calls for hedgehogs in need of help is increasing. Please remember hedgehogs don't sunbathe - if they are doing this they need urgent help.

Are you enjoying the warm weather?😍☀️

Hedgehogs are on the move again with many now starting to leave hibernation. You can help them directly from your own garden, here's two simple tips on how!

1) Leave out clean shallow bowls filled with water. Hedgehogs will be thirsty in this weather. Please no milk as it does not agree with their bellies!

2) Leave out a clean bowl of meat based cat, dog, or hedgehog food. You can even leave out meat based cat or hedgehog biscuits. This is a great top up from the insects hedgehogs will be eating 🐛 Please avoid bread.

[Image description: A light green graphic labelled 'Coming out of hibernation' with hedgehog prints trailing off the graphic and the Hedgehog Friendly logo. There is small graphics of a hedgehog drinking water from a bowl and a bag of pet food. Information listed has been detailed in description above.]

Thank you🥳🦔🐾

Thanks to the efforts of our students and staff, we’ve achieved Silver Accreditation for being a Hedgehog Friendly Campus! 🦔🥈

The award from the British Hedgehog Preservation Society reflects our commitment to being a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly campus.

Read the full story on our website: https://bit.ly/3Jis5Ng

Follow our campus team: Bath Spa University - Hedgehog Friendly Campus

We are currently recruiting for a team of student 'Green Communicators', there's a range of projects you could work on from helping with the Hedgehog Friendly campus scheme to ensuring items left when students move out of halls are donated to good causes. Other roles include working on online communications to involve more people in the work that is happening at Bath Spa University. Full details can be found on the career hub at https://mycareer.bathspa.ac.uk/leap/jobSearch.html?id=22319&service=Careers+Service

📣 Students 📣

Did you take part in Hedgehog Friendly Campus in 2021 and want to be recognised for your work?

Fill out the form below to claim your certificate & reference👇🏽

https://tinyurl.com/2p82eux7

🥈 SILVER 🥈

We are super pleased that we have achieved SILVER! This means Bath Spa University is now silver accredited 😍🦔

Thank you to all our student ambassadors, staff ambassadors, Bath Spa Uni, Bath Spa University Students' Union, and Hedgehog Friendly Campus for all your support!

We are super excited to now go for gold!! Stay tuned!

Happy New Year!!

We are looking forward to helping our local, and national, hedgehogs for another year! 🦔

We hope you also have a safe, healthy, and amazing year🥳

We have submitted our 2021 toolkit! A big thanks to everyone who helped us this year and fingers crossed for SILVER!🥈

Join Hedgehog Friendly Campus on Monday 13th December for A Very Hog-Friendly Christmas!

At this special festive event, we will meet a hedgehog, listen to a great talk from Hugh Warwick, find out the results of our Name the Mascot competition and celebrate your fabulous achievements this year.

🦔When: 13th December, 5:30-7:30PM

🦔Who: Hog-Friendly teams from our schools, colleges and universities (families welcome too!)

🦔Where: Zoom - you must RSVP through Eventbrite 👇

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-very-hog-friendly-christmas-tickets-209094215427

A very Hog-Friendly Christmas To celebrate your achievements this year, Hedgehog Friendly Campus invites you to A Very Hog-Friendly Christmas!

Brand new research into has just been published.
Researcher Abi Gazzard, Reading BioSci has been investigating:
🦔 How highways help hedgehogs
🦔 People’s motivation for installing them
🦔 Potential barriers
Read more here https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/the-success-of-hedgehog-street/

is a project we run with People's Trust for Endangered Species

📸 Sarah Aston

Happy bonfire night 🎆
During your celebrations tonight and over the weekend, please ensure you build bonfires on the day you plan to burn it and before lighting, you check for our sleeping hedgehog friends. 🦔

The hedgehog survey tunnels have been deployed round campus - with volunteers checking for activity over the next 5 mornings. Thanks for everyone that’s turned out today and also volunteered to check. Stay tuned for any results! 🦔 👋

Hello to all our hedgehog-friendly campus supporters!

We're running a hedgehog survey starting next Tuesday 5th October on the Newton Park campus and are looking for volunteers to help set out the tunnels that afternoon.

We're also looking for students (in pairs, but can buddy you up) to check the tunnels each morning before 10 am between Weds 6 October - Sunday 10th October. If you'd like to help out please either message the page or email [email protected]

[Image description: A black triangular hedgehog survey tunnel with evidence of hedgehog activity from black footprints made on white paper by a hedgehog as they entered and exited the tunnel looking for food. The tunnel is set amongst some ivy in a grassy area on the Newton Park campus]

We'll be running a number of events during the welcome weeks in late September. Including an introductory talk on what a hedgehog-friendly campus is, how to survey hedgehog activity followed by a 5-night survey before the start of the hibernation period. We'll update the page as the booking links open.

[Image description: European Hedgehog (Erinaceus eropaeus) is walking through a patch of ivy, looking straight ahead towards the camera. At the bottom of the photo in white type is the words "Credit: British Hedgehog Preservation Society"]

Heatwaves are quite nice for us, but pretty pants for wildlife.

A shallow dish of fresh water (on campus and at home!) could be a lifeline for hedgehogs this week!

Credit: Paul Bunyard