‘I’m on a mission to save hedgehogs.’
Single mum Heidi Brain, 42, is passionate about the prickly creatures…
Taking my children, Ella, then 16, and Louis, 12, out for the day, we were hoping to see wild animals, like pandas and tigers. In fact, it was the hedgehogs at Shepreth Wildlife Park, Herts, that caught my eye.
It was September 2013, and, spotting a sign for a ‘hedgehog hospital’, I popped in. I’d been made redundant from my job at a publishing company and had some spare time while I applied for new jobs. ‘We need volunteers,’ Natasha, the manager at the time, said.
I learned that these prickly creatures were endangered. An increase in traffic, plus urban development and crop-spraying, has all contributed to their decline.
That’s how I…
