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President
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In 1976 I attended a
beginners’ beekeeping course at the
local I joined the local BKA
and was eventually elected to the
executive committee. I served on the committee
continuously for 22
years and held most posts of responsibility including President and
Chairman
(three times). I continue to tutor & mentor
beginners. I joined BIBBA at about
the same time (influenced by Claire
& Adrian Waring) & became a member of the committee
serving
continuously for 20+ years. I took over as
Membership Secretary
from Albert Knight and, latterly, took on the roles of Secretary and
Chairman
and was responsible for the present Constitution & AGM Standing
Orders. In 2012 I returned to the committee. When I retired from the
committees, I was awarded Honorary
Memberships of both NBKA and BIBBA. In 1992 I was elected
on to the BBKA committee and served
for six years and was involved in education (in particular, the
publication of Bees
in the Curriculum). In 2005 I was again elected on to the
committee for
one year and elected the following year for three years and again for
another
three years. During that time I was involved in the
Education &
Husbandry, Publicity & Promotions, Standing Orders and
Constitution,
Governance, Royal Show and Stoneleigh Shows
committees. The latter
was responsible for organising display gardens and live bee
demonstrations at
the Edible Garden Show at Stoneleigh and Gardeners’ World Live at the
NEC at I have exhibited
successfully at local and national shows
and have written a book on making mead and honey drinks (Good Health
& Long
Life published by Northern Bee Books). I have made
a Country Tracks
film produced by the BBC on making mead. I have
acted as honey
Judge. I enjoy attending local
& national shows, which enables
me to meet the public and promote bees and
beekeeping. I regularly
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Secretary
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Treasurer
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| Iain has been beekeeping since about 1994 and is keen to improve his bees by selective breeding. He is keen on forming a bee improvement group in his area. | ||
Membership Secretary
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| Enid has lived in Scotlandwell for 14 years. This is a small village in Kinross-shire. Her Grandfather and Father had both kept bees and Enid took up beekeeping the year that she moved into the village. She started with 5 hives but, on retirement from the Police, she has gradually increased to around 70. Enid is Advertising, Publicity and Shows Convener for the Scottish Beekeepers' Association and during the summer months this keeps her very busy organising the Royal Highland Show, Scottish National Honey Show as well as taking the publicity stand to various agricultural shows. Locally Enid is President of Fife Beekeepers' and vice-President of Dunfermline and West Fife Beekeepers' Associations and, for the past 7 years has run a joint beginners class for both associations. She has always been interested in breeding her own queens and demonstrating her method of queen rearing to other beekeepers. | ||
Chairman
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| Will was inspired to become a beekeeper (and take bees to the heather) by an aunt who lived within sight of Dartmoor and who would tell him to "go and see if the bees have any honey". Finding her veil and smoker and working out how to use them was exciting. While training as a teacher, Will was taught beekeeping by Maurice Calvert at Newton Park College. His first venture was wiped out by AFB and he regrets the loss of a dark strain that had arrived as a swarm. Following a career as a biology teacher, Will returned to beekeeping and is best known through his interest in beekeeping history. With Eve he currently operates 60+ stocks in the North Cotswolds. They are members of BFA and active in Gloucestershire BKA. | ||
Vice Chairman
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| Kevin has been involved with
bees since 1973 when
he helped his Polish father-in-law with his bees. Needing to know more
about the problems bees were facing, he took retirement and started
keeping bees at his home during 2004. Having joined the education group
of his local society, he now helps the new beekeepers with their bee
improvement and getting the best from their bees. The BIBBA committee gives him the chance to be there in the front line of bee improvement and offer an alternative to the many unnecessary imports of foreign and unadapted bee stocks. |
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Conference and Workshops OrganiserRoger Patterson
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| BIBBA are able to organise
beekeeping events that will
help beekeepers improve their bees. These can be at different levels to
suit different interests and abilities. These can include simple bee
improvement for the ordinary beekeeper, using opportunities that are
presented during the season and no extra equipment, to more advanced
methods where more queens are reared as part of a breeding programme. These events can be held throughout the BIBBA catchment area. If you would like to have an event in your area please contact Roger at the email address above |
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Bee Improvement Editor
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| Roger Patterson is a
practical beekeeper who has kept bees since 1963.
This was directly after the harsh 1962/3 winter when a large number of
bees and queens were imported. He quickly realised these imports were
not well suited to our climate and conditions. A chance meeting with
Beowulf
Cooper resulted in him joining VBBA (now renamed BIBBA) in 1965. At one
stage he ran 130 colonies, but has now reduced to around 25. He
concentrates on
teaching the practical aspects of beekeeping at his local BKA where he
is the Apiary Manager. He lectures and demonstrates widely
and is a regular contributor to the bee press. Roger now owns and maintains Dave Cushman's website www.dave-cushman.net that is widely recognised as one of the world's most comprehensive beekeeping websites. He is the author of "Beekeeping. A Practical Guide". He is a BBKA Trustee and Vice President of Bee Diseases Insurance (BDI). Roger can often be seen in the company of his border collie Nell. |
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Bee Improvement Groups Secretary
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| Born in Newtown Powys, Jo
grew up in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire before moving back to Wales
and then to Cornwall where he has lived for over 30 years. He worked in
agriculture (organic vegetable production and dairy) before returning
to studies. Graduated from Plymouth Polytechnic with B.Sc.(Hons)
Environmental Science. Has been running his own business (shop selling
greengrocery, wholefoods, flowers, plants etc.) with his wife since
1980. Jo has been a beekeeper for over 25 years and currently runs about 50 hives. Member of BIBBA for over 20 years. Was Secretary of Cornwall BKA for 9 years and Chairman of Southwest Group of Bee Farmers Association for 2 years. He believes that progress in bee improvement in Britain and Ireland is only likely to come from determined groups of beekeepers working together. Hence, wants to communicate with Groups, find out what they have been doing and their plans for the future. Groups can learn from each others successes and failures. |
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Sales Secretary (including publications)
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| John Hendrie has been involved with bees and beekeeping almost all his life, having been stung at the age of two by one of his father's colonies. Since graduating from university in 1971, he has held many offices in local beekeeping associations, including branch secretary (12 years) and treasurer of Kent BKA (8 years), He was appointed to the exam board of the BBKA in 1991, is a vice chairman of the National Honey show and a director of Bee Craft magazine. John is heavily involved in various aspects of the BBKA. | ||
Archivist
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Conservation Officer
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| Dorian lives in rural Northumberland beside Hadrian's Wall. For most of his professional life he has been a Lecturer in Human Genetics at the University Of Newcastle Medical School and has written a couple of textbooks in genetics. He spends much of his time writing books and articles as well as lecturing, including teaching a beginners' course in beekeeping. Married for nearly 40 years, having two grown-up children, He enjoys natural history, walking, working in the woods, house improvement and painting in watercolours. He has kept bees for nearly 30 years and as a geneticist is convinced of the good sense of the BIBBA principle of using only the predominant local strain of bee. He is active in the North Pennines Bee Breeding Group. Dorian is president of SICAMM and for around 10 years convened the North of England Beekeepers' Convention. He supplies a few local shops with honey. | ||
Merchandising ManagerRichard Jackman*(Not a trustee, but has agreed to carry out the role) |
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| Richard Jackman lives at the Berrow in Worcestershire, there have been bees there since before he was born. In 1992 he realised that 'backyard' beekeepers would be decimated as a result of the varroa invasion. Quite quickly his colony numbers grew to 60 and in 2007 he was persuaded to install another 20 colonies at a nearby national trust estate. He is an avid instrumental inseminator, but often find difficulty setting enough time aside for it. His wife gave him notice to quit the (her) kitchen in 2006 and he now has a barn converted (almost finished) as an extraction/bottling and insemination 'shed'. | ||
Project Discovery
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| Alan lives in Comber on the shores of Strangford Lough, about 10 miles south of Belfast. He has been keeping bees for more than 20 years and runs about 20 hives. Allen migrates a few of his hives to the Mourne Mountains every year in the hope of harvesting Bell Heather honey which he sells at a premium price compared to Floral honey. he also sells honey and spreads the doctrine of beekeeping at Craft Fairs, Retirement Meetings, Women's Institutes and in fact any group who will listen to him speak. He also belongs to a breeding group in Northern Ireland that is trying to propagate native queens to combat the importation of queens. | ||
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| Peter Edwards lives in
Stratford-upon-Avon and is membership secretary, newsletter editor and
website manager for his local association; he is also a Director of
First Honey Co-operative Ltd, a member of the Bee Farmers' Association
and the Central Association of Beekeepers. Peter started keeping bees in 1981 after attending winter courses with Clive de Bruyn and Jim Crundwell. He gained the BBKA Senior certificate in 1984 and was awarded the Wax Chandlers' Prize. Although his intention initially was to keep just two hives, numbers grew rapidly and he was running around 90 hives whilst holding down a demanding job with one of our major examination boards. Following retirement, and working with his wife Sue, Peter increased to around 150 production colonies and up to 40 mating nucs during the summer months. For the past ten years they have taken winter holidays in India and Thailand where they have worked with local beekeepers and gained experience of most of the Asian honeybee species. Deciding that battling with the local bad-tempered hybrids could not continue, Peter began to take a serious interest in improving the quality of his stocks and joined BIBBA in 2002. Peter and Sue started a native bee breeding programme in 2006 and put in place a system of detailed record keeping, with colonies being assessed both visually and by using computerised wing morphometry. From these assessments, breeder queens have been selected and the resulting progeny used to re-queen all colonies showing bad temper or other undesirable traits. |
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Trisha lives in the Welsh Marches by Montgomery and is Secretary and
Vice Chairman, tutor and member of the Training Group of Ludlow
& District Beekeepers. She is also grafter and trainee
instrumental inseminator for the Association's bee improvement group. In addition, she runs Camlad Apiaries with partner Paul and family, with apiaries both sides of the border, producing honey for local shops and food fairs under the Shropshire Sustainable Business scheme. Their new venture Back to Black is a part-funded bee improvement and training project as part of a Landscape Partnership Scheme. Trisha hopes to focus on queen rearing techniques suited to our increasingly challenging climate in the next few years. Other hobbies include photography. |
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| Terry lives in South
Warwickshire in a village near
Stratford-upon-Avon. He is a self employed builder with a farming
background and his hobbies are beekeeping, farming and horses.
Terry has 35 years experience in beekeeping and has been a member of BIBBA for approximately 20 years. He purchased his first Apis mellifera mellifera virgin queen at the East Midlands bee breeding group's Locko Park open day in 1992 and now has 25 colonies of native or near native bees. He has been a member of the Stratford-upon-Avon Beekeepers' Association committee for 19 years, Chairman for 10 years and, together with Peter Edwards, was instrumental in forming the Stratford Bee Improvement Group. Terry has been a member of his local Parish Council for 38 years and the Parochial Church Council for 39 years, 12 years as Churchwarden. |
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| Steve gained an honours
degree in Engineering in 1974 and has since held senior positions in
various Engineering companies. In 2001, having started his own
Engineering consultancy, he found time to pursue his long interest in
beekeeping.
He joined the Derbyshire Beekeepers Association committee as show secretary and held the post for 6 years. During that time he organized several training events for new members and became proficient in queen rearing, concentrating on his A m mellifera stocks and promoting their use amongst other members of the association. In 2008 he moved, with his wife Lynn and 21 colonies, to a small holding in North Wales where he intends to concentrate further on queen rearing and honey production. |
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| Representatives of National Beekeeping Organizations... | ||||
| WBKA | Steve Rose | Email... steve-rose@bibba.com | ||
| UBKA | Mervyn Eddie* | Email... meddie@bibba.com | ||
| SBKA | Enid Brown | Email... ebrown@bibba.com | ||
| BBKA | Roger Patterson | Email... rpatterson@bibba.com | ||
| Representatives to other Organisations... | ||||
| National Bee Meetings | Tom Robinson for meetings in York, |
Email... tom-robinson@bibba.com |
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| National Honey Show | Alan Jones | Email... nhs-reps@bibba.com | ||
Please Note: Any Email addresses shown in black text are not active.
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