Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all, and let us hope for a COVID free 2022!
Best wishes from all at Pembrokeshire Beekeepers’ Association
Stories of Interest
Webinar on Cosmetics – Thursday 2nd December
A look at the regulations around cosmetic products – Andy Bullen
Join us for a webinar on Dec 02, 2021 at 7:30 PM GMT.
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Andy has been a beekeeper for two years. Working for a company writing CPSRs (Cosmetic Product Safety Reports), SDSs (Safety Data Sheets) and compiling PIFs (Product Information Files), he began writing monthly articles for BBKA about the cosmetic regulations. With the help of his wife, Andy then set up a company, initially to help small scale beekeepers wishing to produce cosmetic products, to become compliant in a more cost effective way.
Andy’s talk will focus on the changes to the cosmetic regulations since Brexit, and will be followed by a question and answer session. It will be of interest to beekeepers who have, or are considering, producing cosmetic products using their own hive products.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
WBKA Webinar – Colonsay’s Native Honey Bee Reserve – 11th November 2021
Colonsay’s Native Honey Bee Reserve – Ann Chilcott, Scottish Expert Beemaster
Join us for a webinar on Nov 11, 2021 at 7:30 PM GMT.
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Ann will speak about her visit to Andrew Abrahams’ native bee reserve and you will hear about beekeeping on a marginal island off the west coast of Scotland where conditions are challenging. You will also enjoy stunning scenery from the comfort of your armchairs and sofas.
Ann is a retired public health nurse with a diploma in nurse education. She has been keeping bees for 17 years in the Scottish Highlands and holds the Scottish Expert Beemaster certificate and an HNC in Countryside Management. Ann combines these skills in her self-appointed, mostly voluntary, role of honey bee health champion and beekeeping educator. She takes every opportunity to learn from other beekeepers and has travelled widely visiting beekeepers and giving presentations overseas. Her favourite part of beekeeping is engaging with children and, over the summer, many visit her apiary and observation hive: she is known locally as The Bee Lady.
Ann writes for various beekeeping magazines and her weekly blog on www.beelistener.co.uk is currently read in over 100 countries.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Message from the WBKA
There is still time (up to the end of October) to submit items for the Winter edition of the Welsh Beekeeper magazine. In particular you have until the end of the month to send in your photographs for the quarterly WBKA photo competition. Your photos just have to be about beekeeping or honey bees and the best entry will win a really worthwhile prize. Get your cameras out as bees are still flying and the sun comes out occasionally.
For the magazine why not send in any festive recipes you have that use honey, or ideas for Christmas gifts. Have you found a new to you successful way to manage your bees this past season that you would like to share? Anything amusing or different that has happened around your beekeeping this season? Articles about bees and beekeeping are always welcome and if we have too many for the winter edition we always have the Spring one to populate.
E-mail – secretary@wbka.com
Bees for Development webinar
Please see the registration details below about the next WBKA webinar on July 22nd. The webinar is open to anyone to attend so please distribute the details as widely as possible.
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3291716128552900619
Bees for Development – the power of bees to change people’s lives
Join us for a webinar on Jul 22, 2021 at 7:30 PM BST.
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WBKA are delighted to host this webinar and welcome Nicola Bradbear who will speak about the valuable work which Bees for Development do.
Founded in 1993, the organisation uses beekeeping to achieve less poverty and more biodiversity, delivering practical community-based projects to change people’s lives for the better in some of the world’s poorest countries.
We hope you can join us to learn more about their work and how you might support it.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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