Dear Kennet BeeKeeper, It is the beginning of May and the swallows are arriving, the bees are thinking about swarming, in some places they are swarming, and Kennet BeeKeepers, through Wiltshire BKA, has become a CIO Charity. (CIO = charitable incorporated organisation). You can search the Charity Commission records yourselves by going on to :- https://www.gov.uk/find-charity-information and clicking on the link “Find …
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Chairmans letter – April 2022
Dear Kennet Beekeepers, This coming Wednesday 6th April we have our monthly talk or lecture at Bishops Cannings village hall, SN10 2LA doors open from 7.00 pm for all to start at 7.30 pm. As you should know we are starting with a very short Special General Meeting to vote in our KBKA trustees for the new Wiltshire BeeKeepers when they become a charity. …
Chairmans letter – March 2022
Dear Kennet BeeKeepers, This coming Wednesday 2nd March we have a face to face talk from the Buckfast BeeKeepers Clare Densley and Martin Hann on Preparing for Spring. This should be an excellent presentation, not to be missed and I hope to see many of you there. Bishops Cannings village hall, SN10 2LA doors open from 7.00 pm talk starts at 7.30 …
Chairmans Letter – February 2022
Dear Kennet BeeKeeper, First of all this coming Wednesday 2 February @ 7:30 pm we have our first lecture of the year at Bishop Cannings Village by Kevin Pope “Whether the weather weathered the health of the bees in 2021″. Kevin Pope is an experienced beekeeper and the regional bee inspector for Dorset. He has been keeping bees …
Chairmans Letter – January 2022
Dear Kennet BeeKeeper, Happy New Year to all KBKA members. I shall look forward to seeing some of you on 1st January 2022 at 12.00 noon at the Horton Road Apiary for Oxalic, Mince pies and perhaps a glass of mulled wine. That’s tomorrow! On the 29 December I posted out to all members our Kennet BeeKeepers Programme of events for 2022. …