The Bee Friendly Awards are Back – and Need You!

Our Bee Friendly Awards are entering their fourth year in 2025 and we are welcoming entries now! It’s the perfect project to get started with as we all turn our thoughts towards spring. You can apply for a Bee Friendly Award as a village, a parish, a community group, a station, an office or business, …

We’re taking The Bee Friendly Skep Project into Schools!

From the National Trust’s Attingham Park, Shropshire to Worcestershire’s Norton Juxta Kempsey CofE Primary School; The Bee Friendly Trust Skep Project has taken to the road. Our travelling exhibition, made possible thanks to funding from the Arts Council, already features six skeps painted by the award-winning presenter Maddie Moate and five talented female artists: Lucy …

Why Every Winter Garden Needs a Bug Hotel

If you’ve been busy getting your garden winter-ready, gathering fallen leaves and securing sheds, there’s a chance you may have overlooked one of this season’s most important jobs. Creating habitats for overwintering wildlife. You might leave a pile of twigs and logs at the back of a border for beetles, centipedes, woodlice and spiders to …

Bee Friendly Trust Bee Box

Our beautiful Bee Box was designed by Petra Schmidt and created by craftsman Dante Villa. The box is packed with honey jars, each filled not with honey but by something – a foodstuff or product – that we would not have without the work of honeybees. The lid of every jar contains pollen – a …