Poppy’s Creche
Sponsoring Spike and his fellow orphaned hoglets at Poppy’s Crèche, where volunteers hand-rear baby hedgehogs around the clock, all year round.
GTT is proud to collaborate with Poppy’s Creche, an entirely self-funded small charity run and managed by Ann and her valuable team of volunteers. The creche is named after a very special albino hedgehog called Poppy — and it does some of the most heart-warming work you will ever hear about.
Poppy’s Creche specialises in taking in sick and orphaned baby hedgehogs, and the team works tirelessly, 365 days a year, to hand-rear the youngsters. Young hoglets need feeding by hand every two hours, day and night — which, as you can imagine, is exhausting for the hedgehog carers! With Britain’s wild hedgehogs facing serious decline, every hoglet successfully raised and released really counts.
GTT sponsored a hedgehog called Spike. When he arrived he was only a few days old and could hardly stand, and Poppy’s Creche feared he might have brain damage that would affect his balance. We decided to take a chance on him — and it was absolutely the right thing to do. By August, Spike weighed 400 grams and had a very healthy appetite!
We have also sponsored heated pads to keep the baby hedgehogs’ boxes warm, along with a number of items from Poppy’s wishlist. You can read more about Poppy’s Creche here.