National Beekeeping Centre Wales

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I have personally never worked out why the BBKA does not include the likes of Scotland and I think Wales. Seems a bit weird to me that it doesnt maybe someone can fill me in on why that is the case

Maybe because we don't want to be included! I'm happy with with the WBKA at any rate.
But anyway, after a bit of naughtiness as a child I had it drummed into me never to play with matches

 

[The Cumbrian]

There is, look down the bottom it links to http://www.************.co.uk

You can't expect links from external sites when here blocks them, quid pro quo and all that.

I agree I can find a link under Oublic Organisations and Charities then the link is National Beekeeping Forum.

However when I try the link I get "Not Found".

 

[susbees]

You should all stop being so picky.
It's a positive facility for beekeeping, who cares where in Wales it is located.
I hope they are successful with amm breeding.

Peter (an Englishman)

The issue is that a handful of self-appointed people have set up a place they've labelled as a National centre (initially as a regional centre according to the site, but they assume the whole country's beekeepers will support them) for largely their own purposes and then they are going to ask everyone else what they think. Cart before horse.

As for location I suppose they could have edged it onto Anglesey.

And I'm not Welsh either. Relevance ?

 

[Anduril]

Does it really matter where in Wales it is situated? Anybody could have set it up in the past. I live a 4 hour drive from there and I am not moaning. If it benefits Welsh beekeepers and the public then I wish it well.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Got this via the WBKA this afternoon
Unique £200,000 beekeeping centre project gets the green light
A UNIQUE beekeeping centre has been given the official go-ahead this week after securing £200,000 of funding.
The groundbreaking National Beekeeping Centre for Wales (NBCW) will help preserve and enhance local and national beekeeping, and aims to help arrest a potentially disastrous decline in honeybee numbers.
Once open, the innovative scheme will combine visitor facilities including a hands-on apiary with training courses and support for practical beekeeping research, so becoming the only project of its kind in Wales.
The main centre aims to attract up to 25,000 visitors a year and will form part of the new £6.5m Bodnant Food Centre at Furnace Farm in the Conwy Valley.

First Minister Carwyn Jones dropped into the centre on Friday to hear more about the project and see progress being made.
NBCW will seek to develop practical research projects with beekeepers and academic researchers within Wales.
The Centre will also develop its range of training courses at the Henfaes Research Farm, a Bangor University facility at Abergwyngregyn.
A further visitor facility is being developed in conjunction with the Snowdonia Society at Tŷ Hyll near Capel Curig and will include queen bee mating hives and woodland gardens to provide examples of the ideal bee habitat.
Bee-related produce, including honey and wax products, will retail from the Tŷ Hyll and Bodnant sites.
Funding for NBCW has mainly come through the Conwy Rural Partnership under the Axis3 Environment theme of the Rural Development Plan for Wales.
Other funders include Environment Wales, Snowdonia National Park CAE Fund, South Clwyd Beekeepers Association and the Welsh Beekeepers Association - John Hall legacy.

Conwy Beekeepers Association is another financial contributor, and has played a key role in bringing the ambitious project to the county.
The 150-member strong Association successfully relaunched the 700-year-old Conwy Honey and Seed Royal Charter fairs in the 1990s.
This strong relationship between Conwy and the beekeeping fraternity meant that the Furnace Farm development was the ideal location for Waless national centre.
NBCW spokesman Pete Barrar said: A lot of work has already gone into planning this ambitious scheme, but its only now with all the funding in place that we feel we can really celebrate.
Were delighted that its all systems go and were looking forward to getting everything in place ready for our grand opening in May.
The visitor centre is planned to open at the same time as the Bodnant Welsh Food Centre.
As well as two members of staff, NBCW aims to recruit 20 volunteers in 2012 and increase that to approximately 30 in 2013.
The project will become self-sufficient after 2013. Operated through a non-profit-making Community Interest Company, all income will be invested back into scheme.
It will seek to boost the Welsh economy by supporting existing beekeepers and attracting new people to beekeeping, including farmers and landowners

 

[REDWOOD]

Well done wales for such a forward looking plan for bees and beekeepers, Where did they get the £200,000 funding from ?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Well done wales for such a forward looking plan for bees and beekeepers, Where did they get the £200,000 funding from ?

Sounds like mostly RDF (EC) money all the contributors are listed in my last post