Guildford Beekeepers has a full programme of events during the year.
Apart from its weekly meetings at the Bramley Apiary on Saturdays during the Spring, Summer, and Autumn there are many social events.
See below for our current programme which is added to on a regular basis.
Aware Week 25th May – 1st June 2024. Bee Aware Week
Tunsgate Quarter – Guildford
Bee Aware Week
Tunsgate Quarter
Guildford
25th May – 1st June
Join us this half term for a week buzzing with FREE activities! Learn all about the essential role that bees play in our ecosystem and find out how you can help look after the environment and support local biodiversity.
* Learn to make bee and bug hotels to take home
* Make pollinator-friendly wildflower seed bombs to take home
* Learn about the threat of invasive Asian hornets to our native bee and insect pollinators
* Hear about our local biodiversity and how you can help support species under threat
* Plant and decorate flower pots to take home
* Free locally made honey tasting
* ‘Meet the Bees’
* Free Prize Draw Competition
* Bee and Bug Hunt around the centre (win a sweet treat prize!)
* Create your own artwork for our Honeycomb Collage Wall
* …and much more!
- Tunsgate Quarter
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2nd June 2024 2:30pm-4:30pm. OPEN DAY – Guildford Beekeepers
Birtley House, BRAMLEY GU5 0LB
Guildford Beekeepers OPEN DAY
2nd June 2024 2.00pm to 4.30pm. OPEN DAY and celebration of 150 years of BBKA.
Birtley House, BRAMLEY GU5 0LB
Wander through The beautiful Birtley house gardens home of the GBKA teaching apiary. Find out about honeybees and other pollinators and why they are so Important to our world.
FREE ENTRY AND FREE HOMEMADE REFRESHMENTS
CHILDRENS’ ACTIVITIES
POLLINATOR FRIENDLY PLANT SALES
HONEY SALES
LIVE BEES (SAFE OBSERVATION)
BIRTLEY HOUSE ‘BEORC LLEAH’ APPLE BRANDY
ASIAN HORNET AWARENESS
PHOTO COMPETITION
Saturday 29th June 2024 Starts at 10:00am. Cranleigh Carnival & Fun Day
We have a stand at the Cranleigh Carnival – come and visit us for live bees and local honey.
BEEKEEPING TASTER SESSION – Saturday 6th July 2024 2:00 – 4:30 pm.
Guildford Beekeepers are holding a Taster Session at our Association Apiary in Bramley for everyone who is interested in learning more about honey bees or considering taking up beekeeping as a hobby.