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Residents and volunteers have come together as part of a national programme to monitor hedgehogs with the aim of understanding the current population and how to help hedgehogs for the future.

For Volunteers' Week our Assistant Reserves Officer, Kate Ashley, spoke to Nature Force volunteers about what keeps them coming back.

What is amazing to see is the incredible difference volunteering outdoors can have for the volunteers' mental health. One such volunteer was happy to share their story with us all….