AN animal rescue charity based in Newton Abbot is looking for ready-to-go hedgehog homes as many of its hogs are nearly ready to be released.

‘We are now looking for hedgehog re-homes that are ready-to-go, so that when the weather improves we can quickly get in touch to arrange collection of one or more of our prickly friends’ ELM Wildlife said.

This comes as the charity launches another GoFundMe, this time with a target of £100,000, as it ‘only has enough funds to run for the next six months’, according to its fundraising page.

Currently based out of premises at Seale Hayne, ELM Wildlife’s ultimate goal is to build a purpose-built rescue centre.

The charity are looking for people who have a dry, wooden hedgehog house, with straw or dry leaves, are able to feed daily, have an active hedgehog population in and around their garden.

The charity said: ‘Not all requests will be approved to re-home a hedgehog.

‘Our primary concern is the well being of the animal and this will always be our priority.’

Prospective hedgehog re-homers are asked to contact ELM Wildlife via its Facebook page.

Elsewhere, the charity has launched its second fundraising campaign.

‘The vision is to take the expertise, youth, drive and support ELM has and take it to the best it can be; a purpose built rescue centre that can accommodate many species of wildlife casualties from Devon and beyond’ the GoFundMe page reads.

The goal is to raise £100,000 to fund the day to day running of ELM Wildlife for a year, as well as free up the charity’s Rick, Jacky and Emily Parker, who started the charity back in 2018 and has since grown into the largest capacity hedgehog rescue centre in the South West, to focus on working through the planning process involved with developing a piece of land.