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About Us
Experts in bees, biology and community
Sara Venn
Community Gardener
Heather Moore
Bee Expert & Biologist
Heather studied Biology at the University of Sussex, and specialised in honeybees – publishing original research in the Journal of Experimental Biology on queen bee reproduction. She then went out to Kenya with the BBC to make the documentary, Queen of the Savannah, detailing how African bees are being used to help defend crops against migrating elephants. This trip showed her how honeybees could be used for real social change, and so inspired her to start the project.
Dr Paul Craze
Evolutionary Ecologist
Timmy Rogers
Engineer
Bee the Change is a pollinator conservation not-for profit based in Bristol and Stroud. We work to halt the pollination crisis by forming and connecting communities to nature, growing bee habitats for forage and nesting, helping education in schools, business and community and working with organisations to enact positive change for pollinators and people.
One of our main aims is to connect communities to nature. We achieve this by physically creating places of nature, where people want to be, and facilitate the formation of a community around it. This creates a place of sustainable education, creativity and wonder, often in places where community is practically non-existent and really needed.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Bee the change believe that businesses need to be on board if we are going to tackle this bee crisis. We work with business large and small to bring about positive change for people and the pollinators, whether its a roof garden on the head quarters building, or a beehive in amongst a housing development.
School Beehives and Bee Club
Creating Communities Based Around Nature
One of our main aims is to connect communities to nature. We achieve this by physically creating places of nature, where people want to be, and facilitate the formation of a community around it. This creates a place of sustainable education, creativity and wonder, often in places where community is practically non-existent and really needed. Our bee garden is based at Blaise Castle, Bristol.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Bee the change believe that businesses need to be on board if we are going to tackle this bee crisis. We work with business large and small to bring about positive change for people and the pollinators, whether its a roof garden on the head quarters building, or a beehive in amongst a housing development.
School Beehives and Bee Club
Bee the Change are able to set up beehives on school grounds, and run bespoke workshops and bee clubs. We can also spend time with the teachers over the course of the year, to teach how to nurture a honeybee colony. We have beehives in Bristol schools, and soon to be Bath.
Educational Talks and Workshops
Bee the Change give educational talks, workshops and demonstrations at schools, universities and organisations interested in bees. Our most popular, is a two-hour session, detailing the exciting stories and natural history of the honeybee, in a fun and interactive way. We run a bee quiz at the end to see what the children have remembered, and have a reflective session at the end to see what everyone liked and why, for confidence building and self-expression. The children as a class get to keep their jar of honey that they squeezed themselves – if they didn’t eat it all that is!
WHAT WE DO
If you have any further questions about what we do or want to start beekeeping yourself, don't hesitate to get in touch through our Contact Us page.
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