Celebrate Brocktober and National Badger Day 2025
The 6th October brings us National Badger Day, so we join our friends at Scottish Badgers in designating the whole month to #Brocktober. We are celebrating the crucial role badgers play in nature.
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"Nature is my happy place" - a sentiment many of us share. But did you know that badgers play a pivotal role in maintaining the natural beauty and balance of our environment? These fascinating creatures help maintain healthy insect populations, disperse seeds, and aerate the soil through their digging activities.
This National Badger Day and beyond, help raise awareness and vital funds. By protecting badgers and their habitats, we ensure that our natural landscapes remain diverse and vibrant.
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Keep scrolling to find out how you can get involved and how we can keep nature a happy place for humans and wildlife alike!
Let’s protect badgers and their habitats this Brocktober!​
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Learn how you and your clan can keep nature a happy place for us and our badger friends, and celebrate the beauty and wonder of badgers and all that wildlife and nature bring to us.
7 top tips to keep nature a happy place for us and badgers!
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Help protect your local green spaces so badgers and other wildlife can thrive in their natural habitats.
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Learn how to live with badger visitors and leave space for them to forage.
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Sign up for the next stage of our first citizen science project, State of the Badger, to help us understand the population health of badgers and safeguard their future.
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Try our responsible badger-watching tips to get to know – and love! – your local badgers.
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Use our free planning and development guides to help protect badgers and their homes from harm and avoid long-term problems.
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Report badger road traffic casualties to identify accident hotspots and save badgers.
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Make a difference to badgers near you — get involved with your local badger group.
Calling all artists! 🎨🦡
Design a hoodie for our Badger Trust
X Teemill store!​
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Building on the success of last year, we are once again hosting the Badger Trust Brocktober Design Challenge. We are inviting you to create amazing new designs to be sold in our Badger Trust X Teemill shop!
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This year, designers will be offered the choice of entering five categories.
We’re looking for creative, eye-catching designs that capture the spirit of our beloved badgers. There will be five winners in total, one from each category, where we'll feature the winning designs on our official merchandise, which will be sold to raise funds to support our work protecting these wonderful creatures and their habitats.
As a thank-you, winners will receive a special hoodie featuring their very own design - a unique way to showcase your talent and support a great cause.
We welcome everyone to take part whether you’re a professional or, like some of us, you haven’t graduated from stick people.
Let your creativity shine!
What do I need to know?​​​
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The deadline to enter your design is Friday 17th October 2025.
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Terms and conditions.
How to prepare your artwork for digital printing (pdf).
TO ENTER: Email your design or send via a WeTransfer link, stating the category you are entering, to: fundraising@badgertrust.org.uk.
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‘Badgered’ Poetry Pill Launch
Badger Trust x Poetry Pharmacy Launch: Badgered
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We’ve teamed up with The Poetry Pharmacy, known for prescribing poems as remedies for life’s challenges, to create something truly special: Badgered.
This unique new product comes in a pill bottle filled with little capsules - each one holding a bespoke poem celebrating badgers and the natural world.
From Friday 3 October you can pick up your very own Badgered prescription!
The Badger Trust Auction is back!
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We’re building on the amazing success of last year’s Winter Auction with a Brocktober special!
From 6th October, you’ll have the chance to bid on over 45 incredible unique items - from artwork and homewares to unforgettable experiences and exclusive one-of-a-kind treasures.
There’s truly something for everyone!
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How you can make a difference for badgers this Brocktober
Make a difference to your local badgers and get involved with a badger group near you.
Why is National Badger Day held during the Badger Cull?
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National Badger Day began long before the badger cull of the past decade. Sadly, we are all too aware that this time of celebration falls during the intensive badger culling period in England as the seemingly endless badger cull continues.
But we won’t let the Government’s senseless slaughter deter us from recognising the beauty and wonder of this amazing native species.
Get social & spread the word
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National Badger Day and Brocktober are brilliant opportunities to share our love for badgers and show how we can protect badgers and their habitats.
Using #NBD25, #Brocktober #LoveBadgers and #NatureIsMyHappyPlace tags during October, gather together these positive stories.
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Spread the word about the beauty and wonder of badgers, our campaigns to protect them, the threats they face, and what we can ALL do to help them.
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You can follow us on social media for the latest badger news and views:
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You can be the first to get the latest badger news​
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Sign up for our regular newsletters
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Sign up to our news alerts
Keep informed so you can take action to help badgers
Watch our short film, ‘State of the Badger’
State of the Badger is our first citizen science project. In this short film, Dr Hannah Trayford, our Campaigns and Research Manager, explains why and how we're doing this study and our hopes for its impact on badger protection.
Plus, our Youth Ambassador, Rachel Bigsby, talks to zoologist Billy Heaney about identifying badger signs and how you can get involved in the study as a Badger Champion volunteer. And you'll see lots of beautiful badgers too!
Our Time With Badgers
Chris Packham
Michaela Strachan
Steve Backshall
Iolo Williams
Megan McCubbin
Nina Constable
Billy Heaney
Rachel Bigsby
Indy Greene
Messages from our badger friends
Educating the next generation of badger protectors
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Our educational film, The Secret Life of Badgers, is packed with real-life footage of badgers and clear, bright infographics. The film is timed to celebrate ‘National Badger Day’, but as every day is Badger Day for our charity, you can use it any time of the year!
This 12-minute film is designed especially for assembly and classroom use for KS1 and KS2 learners and is a great place to start learning about badgers.
The Secret Life of Badgers is broken up into several easy sections and is narrated by Billy Heaney, an enthusiastic zoologist and wildlife presenter. It's suitable for KS2 as a standalone 'plug and play' activity, or for KS1 and KS2 as a 'play and pause' interactive assembly.
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The following resources include Teacher notes and Pupil worksheets:
KS1 Class exercise for Secret Life of Badgers film
KS2 Badger Fact File for Secret Life of Badgers film
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A collaboration between Badger Trust and Binfield Badger Group.
Help fund our work
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Badger Trust is the voice for badgers in England and Wales. As a registered charity we rely on people like you to fund our activities. Your gift helps us support our local Badger Groups, keep our badger crime reporting centre open, carry on our vital campaign work, and more.
We can’t run any of our campaigns without your support. Anything you can give helps us protect badgers.
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There are different ways to donate – pick the one that suits you best.
HELP FUND OUR WORK
#LoveBadgers National Badger Day 2020
National Badger Day 2020 Dr Jane Goodall
National Badger Day 2020 - Peter Egan
