HOGGIE NEWS Issue 26 March 2009.pub

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The Lancashire Hedgehog Care Trust
Registered Charity No. 1092285
Patron Nick Park CBE
P r o v i d i n g s p e c i a l i s t c ar e , t r e a t m e n t a n d r e h a b i l i t a t i o n f o r
s i c k , i n j u r e d a n d o r p h an e d h e d g e h o g s
ISSUE 26
Nick Park to be our Patron!
March 2009
There are many thank
you’s in this issue. So
many more kind people
have stepped forward
with offers of help over
the last couple of
months, whether it’s
with a regular donation
or subscription, items
for the charity shop,
tins of Whiskas cat food
for the hedgehogs,
fleece blankets, fundraising at work, people
who turn up with armfuls of newspapers and
donations of cat food
(sorry, I don’t even
know your names), the
Ebay community who
are always there to
willingly sponsor weeks
of care for very poorly
hedgehogs that need
months of treatment
(including one kind lady
all the way from Australia!)
With the support of so
many kind people behind us, this Charity
can’t help but survive.
Thank you
to everyone.
We are delighted to announce that Nick Park CBE the award-winning creator of
Wallace and Gromit is to be
the Patron of our Charity.
We are thrilled that he has
accepted our invitation. As
the Patron of our Charity he
was the one and only choice
for us, not just because of
his obvious love of animals,
but also because we could not
wish for a more genuine person to fill that role. We are
both privileged and honoured
to have his support.
Sponsors needed please
Never before have we had anyone wanting to raise funds for us through sponsorship
of an event. Now we have two together!
The first is Anne, Phil and Emma Woodworth. They will be attempting to walk the
80+ miles Dales Way walk from Ilkley in West Yorkshire to the shores of Lake Windermere in Cumbria on 24th May 2009 and all in aid of our charity. They need all
the support they can get to complete this walk, so please help by sponsoring them.
They can also be sponsored online and you can find out more about their walk at
www.sandem.co.uk
The second is Michelle Porter who has entered the Coniston standard distance Triathlon—a continuous race which incorporates a 1500m open water swim in Coniston
Water, followed by a 40Km ride and then a challenging 10Km run. She hopes to
compete to help raise funds for our charity through sponsorship.
Please give Anne, Phil and Emma, and Michelle your support.
Further details of both these events are included with this newsletter.
Empty shop premises now urgently needed.
The time has now come where we need our own Charity Shop and we are looking to
secure empty shop premises in either the Poulton, Bispham, Cleveleys or Thornton
area. This will hopefully be a valuable source of regular income for the Charity. We
only need a small shop, so if anyone knows of an empty shop with reasonable rent, I
would be very grateful if you please contact me. Thank you.
Thank you to Yvonne Ashman all the way from Victoria in Australia who is now a regular supporter of our charity. She very kindly
donated several weeks of care for Frankie our three-legged
hedgehog in memory of all the animals that died in the Victorian
bushfires. What a lovely gesture. Yvonne says:
“In Australia the situation for many native creatures is dire and
the bushfires have destroyed over 1 million native and domestic
animals... but little Sam the koala has become a symbol of hope.
Fortunately there are many vets willing to donate time and medical supplies, animal welfare agencies and shelters, all working
towards rehabilitating the animals found... it is a massive undertaking”.
You would think that the people of Victoria have enough to cope
with at present, but despite all that devastation, Yvonne has
reached out over thousands of miles to help one little hedgehog.
I find that quite remarkable.
Sam the Koala with firefighter David Tree.
The Forum is now back online after some ‘technical difficulties’. You
can now access it via the website. We are now also on Facebook!
A book has been published entitled 'A Prickly Affair - My life with
Hedgehogs' written by Hugh Warwick. Some of
you may remember when Hugh came to visit me in
September 2007 to see first hand the work we do
here and to try and find out exactly WHY we do
what we do for these animals. Sure enough, Lancashire Hedgehog Care gets a mention in his book well actually 4 whole pages!!
It’s a funny, eccentric and
moving story of one mans quest to understand
our deep-rooted affection for these littleunderstood animals. The book is very well written and I think is certainly worth a read. It’s
available from Amazon or any major retailer.
The LANCASHIRE HEDGEHOG CARE Trust
Registered Charity No. 1092285
9 Alisan Road, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire. FY6 7QF
Hedgehog CareLINE: (01253) 899404 (10am—8pm)
Website: www.hedgehogcare.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Charity Manager Janis Dean
Trustees Sandra Duckworth, Bill Hamer, Alan Cotton.
The contents of this newsletter including photographs, all text and
poems remain the property of Lancashire Hedgehog Care and must
not be copied or reproduced in any form without permission. Copyright © 2002—2009. All rights reserved.
Thank you to Rachell Lucas and John Ullock for having one of
our collections tins in their place of work.
When it is due, please consider renewing your membership with
us as your continuing support is vital to keep the Rescue Centre running. Thank you.
Welcome to our newest members:
Leanne Wilson, Daniel Rowbottom, Jean Darlow, Laura Johns, Enid
Hargreaves, Nicola Brotherton, John Allan, Elizabeth Andrew, Alice
Wilkinson, Dawn Preston, Emma Preston, Martin Phillip, Mrs D. Lingard, Janine Berry, Roger Barkworth, J. Phillip, Lynne Sloane, Julie
Eades, W. Simnett, Ms J. Spratt, Jean Gregson, Michael Buck, Judith Bullough, L. McLair, Kathleen Whiteside, Paula Barnes, Mrs C.
Dyson, Pam Hudson, W.Ball, Mark Haigh, Mr and Mrs Dacre, Miss
W. Maloney, June Copeland, Dorothy Shaw, Mr and Mrs Thompson,
Michelle Porter, Mr and Mrs Rodgers, Vincent Maloney, Sue Carrington, Mrs A. Hankinson, Mrs M. Ogden, Mr and Mrs C. Cookson,
Amanda Sudbury, Marion Nuttall, Anne Woodworth, Hilary Stephens,
Mrs L. Sudbury, Sandra Shepherd, Mr P. Warhurst, Joan McGuire,
Mr G. Stones, Pamela Black, Emma Woodworth, Kate Stannard,
Miss C. England, C. Worthington, Janet Pendlebury, Barry Shaw,
Sam and Tom Stephenson, Hilary Murphy, Pauline Smith, Mrs M.
Sapey, Anthony Lingard, Bridget Stephenson, Rhiannon and Olivia,
Mrs P. Wilson, Leonard Burkinshaw, Miss A. Rimmer, Janet Bowman, Brenda Kovacs, Bob and Aris Burgess, Sarah Burgess, Gillian
Tregenda, Yvonne Ashman, Andrew Dolgopolov, Mrs N Guy, G.
Wilkinson.and Kathleen Foster.
A big thank you to Anne Woodworth and to the pupils of Baines
School, Poulton for all their fundraising efforts in helping us purchase new floorliners for the incubators. The old ones were quite
dangerous for the hedgehogs as they had become brittle and split,
but now we have been able to replace them. Thank you Baines!
A huge thank you goes to Sheila Clementson and members of The Lady Freemasons, Sesame Lodge No. 26 for
the wonderful donation of a cheque for £400 which was
presented to us in January.
Thank you to Liz and to everyone who regularly brings us cat food
and items for the hedgehogs. Also to everyone that brought us
items to sell in the Charity Shop. Thanks also to Ann Hedley at
Longview Animal Centre and Ann and Sharon from Cats Paws for
their very kind donations of tins of cat food which we were very
grateful for. Thank you also to John Isles for donations made.
Are you able to receive your newsletter via email
instead of snail mail?
There are only a handful of members at the moment who
regularly receive their newsletters by email. If you can receive yours online it will help us tremendously with the
costs involved including stationery, printing and in posting
it to you, making it more environmentally friendly too! And
the bonus is that you will receive your
newsletter in glorious colour! Can you
please let me know if you can and forward
me your email address. It will help us a lot.
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
If your copy of “Hoggie News” has a cross below, it means
that your membership subscription is due for renewal soon.
Your continuing support is vital to enable us to provide care
and treatment for many future hedgehog casualties
that will need our help. Thank you.