Welcome to the South Essex Wildlife Hospital

Dedicated to putting ‘life’ back into the ‘wild‘, SEWH is a wildlife rescue, rehabilitation and public advice charity. We care for sick and injured wildlife and aim to release animals back into the wild.
No injured or sick animal is turned away, so the hospital operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, staffed only by dedicated volunteers. SEWH relies entirely on donations.

We deal with ALL injured, orphaned or sick wildlife, including hedgehogs , badgers, squirrels, deer, foxes, swans, ducks, geese and any other birds, frogs, toads, lizards, snakes. In fact anything that lives wild in the British countryside or our towns.  We cover a wide area across much of Essex, East and North London and North Kent from our hospital which is based in Orsett, Essex (just 5 minutes from Lakeside Shopping Centre).

If you find a sick, injured or baby animal or bird please call us on 01375 893893 for advice on what to do. See HERE for more details

Lots of Hedgehogs… and even more Hedgehogs

We have an enormous number of hedgehogs for overwintering this year. It is just December and we have over 240 hedgehogs in the hospital, with more streaming in daily. The weather continues to be very bad and getting worse, with high winds, floods and now frosts.

Hedgehogs that are too small to hibernate need to be remain inside, in heated pens and kept awake all winter as they do not have the body fats to sustain them through the colder months. All of our hedgehogs require an intensive course of treatment for lungworm and other parasites, which if left untreated would kill many hedgehogs.

It costs £95.00 to overwinter just one little hedgehog, so the extended winter season has already placed and will continue to place a massive burden on our very limited funds. ( Just the heating bills alone for their pens are extremely high. Last year the electric bill for the winter quarter was more than £9,500 )

Please can you help?

For a donation of at least £10 a year you could become a member for which you will receive our regular newsletter. At this time the donation button will only accept a single payment but we are hoping to very soon set up an annual automatic subscription service

We have at last started building the new Hospital and Wildlife education centre

We have started the huge project to  build a new hospital and education centre. The new centre will give us bigger and better facilities and enable us to keep pace with the demands we currently face.    Help us build much bigger and better facilities to help, treat and rehabilitate more wild animals

This project is likely to cost us at least a massive £500,000  (Half a Million pounds) and we need  to raise a lot of this from charitable
donations and grants. See the Appeals page for more details

We hope you enjoy this site, and thank you for your interest.

For a donation of at least £10 a year you could become a member for which you will receive our regular newsletter. At this time the donation button will only accept a single payment but we are hoping to very soon set up an annual automatic subscription service