Two of many baby hedgehogs reared every year.

X-raying a swan casualty

Vale Wildlife Hospital is a Registered Charity (No. 702888) dedicated to the care & rehabilitation of sick, injured & orphaned wild animals & birds.

Our main aim is to release the casualty back into its natural environment as soon as it is fit.

We treat between 3,500 - 4,500 casualties every year, with running costs of well over £20,000 per month, all of which we have to raise ourselves.

We could not keep going without the support of regular donations, Membership subscriptions & our own constant fundraising.

We have full veterinary facilities within the Hospital & are on call 24-hours a day, 365 days a year.

Although we are only able to deal with casualties in our part of the country, we are available to anyone to give help & advice, & we can usually find a centre close to any casualty.

We also run courses in Hedgehog First Aid, Treatment & Rehabilitation & a Wildlife Photography course.

We have been granted planning permission for an Education & Training Centre to enable us to expand on our teaching services, not only running more courses but taking in UK & foreign students for work experience placements.

Vale Wildlife Hospital was set up in 1984 for the purpose of helping some of the thousands of wild animals & birds that are injured on a daily basis throughout the UK.

Most of these injuries occur as a result of human activity, mostly unintentional (although we do see cases of deliberate cruelty such as badger baiting).

Our continued encroachment onto wildlife habitats through road & house building is causing major problems for our wildlife, vehicles cause vast numbers of injuries, during the spring & summer months cats cause devastation to baby birds & mammals, even carrying out jobs in the garden can result in injury to wildlife.