Hedgehog Rescue is a lovely organisation, run by volunteers, that rescue injured, orphaned and sick hedgehogs throughout S. Glos, Bristol, Bath and Somerset. In order to do that, they have a heated hedgehog hospital for hogs to stay whilst being brought back to health.

In the hospital there is a large section of cages, which are sadly full for most of the year. These cages are now quite old and their design means that they take a HUGE amount of extremely fiddly cleaning. Having spent a full day cleaning the grilles on these old cages, believe me, a new, easy clean fibreglass design would save the Hedgehog Rescue peeps a huge amount of time in cleaning.

Those hogs are messy devils, and think nothing of walking through their dinner and spreading it in every nook and cranny.

So now my bit... as many people will know, I'm hitting the big 50 this year... and to raise money for Hedgehog Rescue, and get fit at the same time, I have decided to swim 50km in as short a time as I can (not all in one go.. I'm not a great swimmer.. and if I have my maths right it's the daunting target of 2000 lengths of my local pool.. gulp). I will be starting doing this the day after my birthday on April 8th... and swimming as far and as fast as I can to reach my target.

If anyone would kindly like to donate, either in lieu of a birthday present, or as an incentive to keep swimming, that would be fantastic.

Hedgehog Rescue have an overall target of around £6000 to replace them all (£260 each). I 'm going to start with trying to raise money for one and see how we get on... but anything above my target will go towards another hospital bed.

UPDATE: Everyone has been so quick to sponsor me, that we've already reached the initial target... so I've upped it :)

For more information http://www.hedgehogrescue.info/

Thank you in advance!!! xxx