Invest in Cornwall’s landscape

We’re asking businesses across Cornwall, to help restore hedges, habitats, and heritage skills.

By funding new Cornish hedges, your business helps restore nature, preserve heritage skills and rebuild the habitat corridors wildlife urgently needs, all while safeguarding an iconic part of Cornwall’s identity.

Be a Hedgehog Hero
Detail of back of Drolla - The Storytelling Bench showing Cornish Hedge

More than one kind of impact

Supporting wildlife, heritage craft, climate resilience and Cornwall’s living landscape.

Wildlife needs connected habitats

New Cornish hedges rebuild safe corridors that wildlife depends on to move, feed and survive.

Hedges make Cornwall, Cornwall

Cornish hedges carry centuries of history. Your support helps protect a defining part of Cornwall’s identity.

A craft at risk without real projects

Cornish hedge building is a centuries-old craft. Your support helps keep this rare skill alive.

Grow Cornwall’s climate resilience

Cornish hedges slow runoff, protect soils and store carbon. Your support helps build stronger, more climate-resilient landscapes.

The Power of the Cornish Hedge

Part wall, part living habitat, Cornish hedges are one of Cornwall’s most defining features. They protect wildlife, preserve rare craftsmanship, store carbon, and hold centuries of cultural identity. Funding new hedges creates visible change that lasts for generations.

More wildlife movement
40%
Pollinator increase
2x
Skilled hedgers
30
Less soil erosion
50%
Species supported
1,500+
Cornish hedge added
38m

B corp?

Do good. Show it. Prove it.

Why B Corps back this project

Discover how supporting this work delivers measurable impact across key B Corp areas, from nature recovery and climate resilience to community benefit.

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The hedgehog

Small, vulnerable & disappearing fast.

Across the UK, hedgehog numbers have fallen sharply as their habitats become fragmented. In Cornwall, restoring hedges is one of the simplest ways to give them space to move, feed and thrive again.

Your support helps reconnect the landscape and gives hedgehogs a fighting chance.

Create safe routes through the landscape

Cornish hedges act as wildlife corridors, letting hedgehogs move between feeding and nesting areas without crossing exposed ground.

Restore real habitat, not just planting schemes

A traditional Cornish hedge supports insects, plants and shelter year round. It is a living structure, not a temporary fix.

Protect a species close to home

Hedgehogs are part of Cornwall’s everyday wildlife. Funding hedges helps safeguard them locally, where the impact is visible and lasting.

Not a Business?

Everyone can make a difference

If you’re not a business, you can still support the Cornwall Landscape and the hedgehogs with a small monthly donation, or volunteer locally.

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Fund the Impact You Want to Make

Use the selector to see how many metres of Cornish hedge your contribution can create. Adjust your pledge, view the live total, and submit your commitment in a few quick steps.

Choose the level of your pledge

Hedge Seed

Fund approx. 1 metre – A small start with real impact. Helps create the first stretch of habitat a hedgehog can safely travel.

Hedge Builder

Fund approx. 10 metres – A small start with real impact. Helps create the first stretch of habitat a hedgehog can safely travel.

Hedge guardian

Fund approx. 30 metres – A small start with real impact. Helps create the first stretch of habitat a hedgehog can safely travel.

HedgeHog

Fund approx. 50 metres – A small start with real impact. Helps create the first stretch of habitat a hedgehog can safely travel.

A perfect fit for B Corp

Cornish hedge funding delivers exactly the kind of nature-positive, place-based action B Corps are expected to champion. It supports two of the strongest, highest-value areas of the B Impact Assessment: Environment and Community.

This makes it one of the simplest, most defensible ways for your business to demonstrate real, locally delivered impact.

It’s place-based, evidence-based, and locally delivered
It supports two of the most heavily weighted B Impact categories
It provides your business with a transparent, meaningful impact story
It’s easy to record, report and communicate at recertification
Be a Hedgehog

Climate

Environment

A nature positive investment.

Restores biodiversity corridors used by hedgehogs, birds, insects and small mammals

Strengthens soil structure and slows erosion

Supports carbon retention in hedge banks and vegetation

Supports carbon retention in hedge banks and vegetation

People

Community

Direct support for local heritage skills and rural livelihoods.

Funds work carried out by specialist hedge builders

Helps protect a 1,000-year-old heritage craft with very few remaining practitioners

Circulates investment into Cornwall’s rural communities

Strengthens a cultural landscape businesses and residents benefit from

Be The First

Every movement starts with a first step

Turn purpose into visible impact in Cornwall

Lead the way

Not quite ready to pledge?

If you’re still exploring your options, we’ve got two simple ways to help you get more information. Take whichever step feels right for you.

Download our information Pack

Use the short form if you have a specific questions, or want to talk through what a partnership could look like. We’ll get back to you with tailored advice and the next steps.

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Download our information Pack

Get a clear overview of how hedge funding works, the impact it creates, and the different ways your business can get involved. Ideal if you want to review things internally or share the information with your team.

The Management Plan

Make The Hedge Pledge

Your support can build the next metre of hedge

Every metre helps wildlife move, protects heritage craft, and keeps Cornwall’s landscape thriving.

Measurable impact for nature
Creates real biodiversity corridors
Supports rare heritage skills
Delivers visible, lasting change
Strengthens Cornwall’s landscape
Powerful story for your CSR or B Impact score
Pledge a metre today

Start Your Pledge

If your organisation would like more information about hedge funding or wider partnerships, complete the short form below. We’ll follow up with tailored guidance and options.

Hedgehog Pledge
Select the level of your pledge – your pledge helps us plan future hedge projects.
We’ll contact you to arrange next steps and funding options.
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Submitting your pledge helps us plan future hedge projects. We’ll contact you to arrange next steps and funding options.

Funding a stretch of new hedge was one of the simplest, most meaningful things we’ve done as a B Corp. It felt good to invest in our community and see the impact take shape in the landscape rather than hiding in a spreadsheet.

Tom Reeves, Co-Founder
Kestrel Creative