Throughout 2025 I hope you would like to follow our monthly hints to help hedgehogs. To start the year, would you like to take a couple of minutes to watch the ‘Hedgehog Close’ video which shows how important it is for hedgehogs to be able to roam freely around our towns and villages between gardens?…
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Usually our Pledgehog Project aims to inspire you to make changes to your outdoor space to make it more hedgehog friendly. However, with it being the start of a new year we would like to highlight some other ways that you could support the running of the project throughout 2025. Jen Walker, Pledgehog Officer, says:…
This festive season Sustaining Dunbar’s Pledgehog Project are reaching out to anyone who has been lucky enough to come across a hedgehog in 2024 and is asking them to log their hog before the end of the year. The Big Hedgehog Map is run by ‘Hedgehog Street’, a joint initiative between the British Hedgehog Preservation…
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Autumn Highlights 2024 Beehive Garden at Dunbar Nursery There is nothing quite like kicking through piles of autumn leaves to make us feel happy, so we raked some into heaps so the children of the Beehive could have lots of fun playing in them and throwing them above their heads for them to tumble down…
Leaving pumpkins on the ground after the spooky season has ended is being highlighted as being a serious threat to our prickly friends. Sustaining Dunbar’s Pledgehog Project is giving advice about the best way to deal with any unwanted Halloween lanterns. Jen Walker, Pledgehog Officer warns, “Many people believe that they’re helping wildlife by leaving…
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Summer Highlights 2024
Carey’s projects have been buzzing this summer. Read her updates about The Beehive Garden, the Day Centre Buddies and the Green Team
The Pledgehog Project attended the Fringe by the Sea in North Berwick recently which was a brilliant opportunity to chat with lots of people about making their outdoor spaces more hedgehog and wildlife friendly. Scotia Seeds perennial wildflower mixes were given out to people who wish to increase the biodiversity in their garden and people…
Now it’s Summer, hedgehogs are now well and truly out and about in Dunbar with sighting coming in from all over the town. This year so far, I have been excited to capture two hedgehogs together for the first time with the night-time camera in Dunbar Primary School’s Nursery sneaking in under the railings into…
NHS Lothian have announced the closure of Belhaven Hospital and of their intention to dispose of the site, including Belhaven Community Garden, as ‘surplus’ to their requirements. Do you support taking the site of Belhaven Community Garden into community ownership so as to protect this asset for the benefit of our community in the long…
An East Lothian project that aims to help the hedgehog population in Dunbar has been awarded new funding of around £4,000 to continue throughout 2024. Sustaining Dunbar’s ‘Pledgehog Project’ will now be supported by local waste recycling company Viridor and tenancy deposit protection scheme SafeDeposits Scotland. The project encourages Dunbar residents to think about hedgehogs…