East Yorkshire Hedgehog Rescue
No contact recorded
Found an animal
Start again › A wild mammal › It is trapped, stuck, or somewhere dangerous
If it is a bat, call the National Bat Helpline
The Bat Conservation Trust runs the National Bat Helpline on 0345 1300 228, Monday to Friday 9.30am to 4.30pm. Between May and September it also runs a volunteer out-of-hours line for emergencies: weekdays 6pm to 10pm, weekends and bank holidays 10am to 10pm.
The Trust says that if you do need to touch a bat you should wear gloves, because of the small risk of rabies, and that a grounded bat should be contained in a box before you call.
Sources: Bat Conservation Trust: National Bat Helpline · Bat Conservation Trust: help, I have found a bat. Quoted in substance and linked in full.
What the RSPCA says to do
The RSPCA says to free an animal yourself only if it is safe to do so. If it is not, it says to call 0300 123 8960 and to make a note of where the animal is.
If you do pick it up. The RSPCA says to use a box, to wear gloves, to keep your face away from the animal, and to wash your hands afterwards. It says to avoid any injuries or open wounds.
Source: RSPCA: injured and sick wild animals. Quoted in substance and linked in full.
The Animal Welfare Act 2006 places a duty of care on a person responsible for an animal. Picking up an injured wild animal to take it to a vet does not make you responsible for it in that sense. Read section 4.
Organisations that take wild mammals in
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Happy Hedgehog Haven
No contact recorded
Hedgehog Cottage Rescue
No contact recorded
Hedgehogs at Holme
No contact recorded
Herbie Hedgehog Rescue
Lucky Hedgehog Rescue
No contact recorded
Pickering Hedgehog Rescue
No contact recorded
Prickly Pigs Hedgehog Rescue
No contact recorded
The Fox Project
Wild Hogs Hedgehog Rescue
National Fox Welfare Society
Hedgehog Helpline
Also listed, without a species recorded
The research these listings came from recorded these organisations as taking wildlife, or several species, without saying which. They are not listed above because this site will not turn “wildlife” into a claim that a particular organisation takes a particular animal. Most are large and long-established. Ring before you travel.
Brinsley Animal Rescue
No contact recorded
British Wildlife Rescue Centre
Folly Wildlife Rescue
Oak and Furrow Wildlife Rescue
Ren's Rescue
No contact recorded
Secret World Wildlife Rescue
Swan and Wildlife Rescue Hospital
No contact recorded
The Retreat Animal Rescue
No contact recorded
Tiggywinkles
Vale Wildlife Hospital
Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary
No contact recorded
Wildlife Aid Foundation
RSPCA
Crosskennan Lane Animal Sanctuary
No contact recorded
Hessilhead Wildlife Rescue
No contact recorded
Scottish SPCA
USPCA
Willows Animal Sanctuary
No contact recorded
Ranked by nation, not by distance: this directory records the region an organisation covers, not where it is, and inventing a location for a real organisation is not something this site will do. Distance ranking arrives with the postcode dataset. Capacity is shown only where the organisation itself confirmed it — “unknown” means nobody has said, not that it is full. Ring before you travel.
What this page is
Every instruction here is the RSPCA’s or the law’s, named and linked. None of it is this site’s own advice, and there is none to give: the people who can help are a vet, the RSPCA, and the organisations listed. If something here disagrees with what a vet tells you, the vet is in front of the animal and this page is not.
Last reviewed 24 August 2026. In an emergency the RSPCA’s line is 0300 123 8960.
This is a description of the law, not legal advice. Every row links to the primary source and carries the date it was last checked. Check the source before relying on it — general licences are reissued each January and commencement dates move.