We are looking for donations to help fund our annual two-day Bee Festival held at the Westbury Arts Centre, Milton Keynes, which this year is on 26th and 27th July. The Bee Festival has proved to be a very popular community event which attracts hundreds of visitors and is an invaluable opportunity to educate and spread the word on honeybees and their ecological and environmental importance to our world.
The Festival, helping pay for room and equipment hire and fund attractions such as a professional storyteller, beeswax sheets for candle making, flower seeds and clay for the seed-bomb making, art supplies, stationery for our badge-making machine, catering supplies and other costs; help with this will mean we can in turn plough more money into our projects.
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SAVE THE DATE – We are already planning BEE FEST 2025…
26 – 27 of July is a Weekend to take note of in the diary. it is easy to find us at Westbury art centre and festivities are open from 11am in the morning to 4pm in the afternoon. Come and Meet us – the Westbury Bee Group – and spend a day having fun…
Click here to read about the Westbury Bee group in a lovely blogpost by Helen & Douglas House!
In June, a group of the siblings joined Rosa and Laura from the Siblings Team, and Westbury Bee Group at Westbury Arts Centre in Milton Keynes for a buzzing sunny day of beekeeping….
WE HAVE HONEY FOR SALE – But only a limited number of jars!
Our Westbury bees have been busy collecting nectar all spring and we have now spun our first honey for the year.
We have a limited amount available for sale at £9 per 454g jar. You are also able to purchase honeycomb tubs for £12. Phone 07885 268500 to collect.
HONEY CAKE BAKING COMPETITION!
CALLING MASTER BAKERS AND BAKING LOVERS OF ALL AGES – Get cracking those eggs and show us your best traditional Honey Cake baking.
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OVER 250 PEOPLE ATTENDED OUR BEE FEST – WBG’s yearly festival turned into a great success. This year our Bee Fest was opened by the Milton Keynes Mayor and Mayoress. They both showed great interest in our bees and honey production; so much so they even attended one of our honey extractions at a later…
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THE JAMES DUFFY SHIELD FOR BEST HONEY IN SHOW – The WBG are very grateful to Joe Little for presenting the shield dedicated to his great uncle. The Westbury Bee Group were pleased to be presented recently with a shield which will hold the names of each winner of Best Honey in Show at their…
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In August we collected the supers that were full of capped honey. This was our 4th and final extraction of 2023. All of this year’s bee-keeping course students have been able to attend at least one extraction. Our teacher and expert Mike Bensley shows us the techniques and then we all work together to extract…
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THERE WAS GREAT EXCITEMENT FOR THE WESTBURY BEE GROUP ON SATURDAY when Joe Little of Tesco – and an artist at the Westbury Arts Centre – presented Mike Bensley, our group leader, with two junior bee suits!
Are you interested in beekeeping? Look at the link below to learn more about the course (And how to sign up)