SMB College Group’s Brooksby Campus has been awarded the Hedgehog Friendly Campus Silver accreditation for their continued outstanding efforts in the preservation of hedgehog life.
Hedgehog Friendly Campus provides a framework that supports universities, colleges, students' unions and primary schools to create positive change for hedgehogs and other wildlife on their campus and enables staff and students to recognise their own impacts on nature.
In 2021, Brooksby Campus was awarded the Bronze award, becoming one of the first Further Education campuses to achieve official accreditation. Students and lecturers have since continued their hard-work to progress onto the Silver award.
The Auditor from Hedgehog Friendly Campus said “Great work SMB College Group Brooksby Campus! Great to see that you have been doing a lot for both Bronze and Silver levels. We are particularly impressed by your efforts to remove litter from rivers, 16kg of rubbish!? Amazing! We would also love to see the loaned footprint tunnels given to staff and the outcomes of it!”
To achieve the accreditation, staff and students put 19 actions into place as a direct intention of being Hog-friendly, building 6 bug hotels, 8 log piles, planting 47 trees and clearing 5 hedgehog friendly ponds.
Brooksby’s hedgehog friendly team is coordinated by Animal Management Lecturer and Veterinary Nurse, Beth Prior. When speaking about the project, she said “We are so excited to announce that Brooksby has been recognised as a Silver Hedgehog Friendly Campus. We’re looking forward to working towards gold this year!
Huge thank you to our wonderful student Hedgehog Ambassadors, who volunteered their time to protect hedgehogs and make our campus much safer for wildlife.”
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