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 …
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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 …
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If you’ve been growing lavender for bees and pollinators, chances are you’ve been enjoying a colourful display of flowers for the past few months. However, to ensure these floral displays for many more years to come, you’ll now need to start thinking about the ongoing maintenance of your lavender plants. This means lavender pruning. Pruning …
We are super excited to reveal a new bee-friendly collaboration that we’ve been working on. The Bee Friendly Skep Project is a celebration of bees, British art and craftsmanship, and team spirit. Its purpose: To highlight the need to create new habitats where bees and other pollinators can thrive. We invited five female artists (Sarah …
It’s time to celebrate all of the community activity that has been having a positive impact on bee populations around the globe. And to announce this year’s winners of the Bee Friendly Awards! We set up the Bee Friendly Awards to shine a light on all of the groups around the country that are championing …
Earlier this year, we commissioned Niamh Walshe McBride to create a series of stained glass panels for the waiting area at Leyton Underground Station in London. Each panel features a different pollinator, including a bee, butterfly and ladybird. The panels, installed this month, sit alongside the lavender beds and wildlife garden that we have also …
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Our popular Bee Friendly Awards are back! Now in their third year, our annual Awards celebrate the bee-friendly achievements of towns and cities around the country. They celebrate the habitat-forming initiatives that create new homes for wildlife. They showcase the collaborations that are helping to extend pollinator pathways across the nation. They shout about the …
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We’re welcoming in the New Year by welcoming even more stations to our family of bee-friendly railway station projects. As part of on ongoing project with Govia Thameslink to install homes for nature across their network of stations, we have: Planted a forgotten area in front of London Blackfriars Station’s south entrance with rosemary and spring …
We are excited to reveal our charity Christmas cards. Created for us by Somerset-based printmaker Hayley Cove, each card depicts a beehives in the snow. Each card is printed on recycled card and comes with a recycled brown envelope. The card has been left blank for your own message. Available to buy individually or as …
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We’ve added benches to our planters, so now you can take a seat whilst enjoying the bee-friendly plants and watching pollinators in action. These benches are on our planters at Reading Railway Station in Berkshire. If you’re waiting on a train or bus to Heathrow Airport, why not check them out and take a load …
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