Hedgehog Awareness Week runs from 30th April to 6th May 2017 and events are being organised all around the country already!
Hedgehog Awareness Week is organised by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society and takes place every year. It aims to highlight the problems hedgehogs face and how you can help them.
This year efforts are focussed on a strimmer campaign. The society has produced water proof stickers that they are sending to councils, tool hire companies, grounds maintenance teams, etc free of charge on request (email info@britishhedgehogs.org.uk).
The stickers remind operatives to check areas for hedgehogs before using any machinery. Once the group have received the stickers and sent us a pic of them in action, we can add them to our Hedgehog Heroes Roll of Honour! 
See http://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/hedgehog-heroes-roll-honour/ which, following action by local Councillor Sheena Jackson, includes the City York Council
As well as checking areas before cutting there are other things we can do to help too: