Hedgehog Awareness Week coordinated by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) is back for 2025 running 5-11 May. This year the theme is ‘Give hedgehogs the edge!’ by making the edges of gardens and green spaces havens for wildlife.
As a Platinum-accredited Hedgehog Friendly Campus, we’re excited to celebrate our efforts and invite staff and students to take part during Hedgehog Awareness Week. Check out our schedule below, we look forward to seeing many of you there!
Running all Week
Competition
We’re inviting colleagues and students to get creative and share your hedgehog-related arts and crafts or action to ‘give hedgehogs the edge’! Share your photos with us on social media using the hashtag #UoSHedgehogWeek or email to sustainability@salford.ac.uk and you could win a hedgehog house.
For this competition, we want you to get creative and show us how we can raise awareness of hedgehogs through arts and crafts or make your outdoor spaces more hedgehog-friendly – whether it’s through log piles, wildlife ponds, fence gaps, or any other ideas. Share your photos with us by 19:00 Sunday 11 May, winner to be announced Monday 12 May.
Tuesday 6 May
Hedgehog Information Stalls
09:30-11:30 Allerton Building
14:00-16:00 Clifford Whitworth Library
Visit our team to find out about hedgehogs, what we are doing on campus for them and how you can help them
Hedgehog Friendly Litter Pick
12.00-13.00 Peel Park Ranger Base
Join our litter pick for a Hedgehog Friendly Campus! Help us create a cleaner, safer environment for our hedgehog friends by joining our litter pick event. 🦔 Students, staff, and local residents are all welcome!
Every piece of litter we pick up makes a difference. No previous experience is needed and all equipment will be provided. Meet at Salford Ranger Base (rear of Maxwell Building in Peel Park) What3Words: https://w3w.co/zoom.spoon.calms
Our Hedgehog Friendly Litter Picks in Peel Park take place all year round in collaboration with the Salford Ranger Team. They occur every other Tuesday at 12pm
Wednesday 7 May
Habitat Heaps
14:00-15:30 David Lewis Playing Fields
Join the Sustainability Team at David Lewis Sports Fields, Peel Park for a practical conservation task which will benefit hedgehogs, insects and other wildlife. All equipment will be provided, sturdy footwear is advised.
We will meet at the junction of University Road and Wallness Lane (What3Words:///item.envy.latter) and be working around the edge of the fields so please just drop in for as much as you are able.
Thursday 8 May
Hedgehog House Workshop
10:00-12:00 SSEE Building Makerspace
Want to have a go at building your own hedgehog house? Come down to the Maker space where they will show us how they will use pre-cut materials to build our own hedgehog houses. After the session you can take them home with you or put them out on campus with the Sustainability Team. Limited spaces available, so please use this link to book: Hedgehog House Building Workshop Tickets, Thu, May 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite
Friday 9 May
Wildlife Surveying Workshop
14:00-15:00 Joule House
This is an opportunity to help us monitor wildlife on our campus. The session will start by meeting in Joule House to introduce the workshop, before heading out onto campus to set out monitoring equipment so we can gain an understanding of hedgehogs and other wildlife on our campus.
For further information on any of the events or sustainability at the University of Salford in general contact the Sustainability Team on sustainability@salford.ac.uk