It’s annual membership renewal time. If you’ve not yet received your membership renewal email please contact the Treasurer and Membership secretary – and ditto if you have any questions regarding renewing your membership.
We are now taking bookings for our 2025 Introduction to Beekeeping course. Full details here
About Shipston-on-Stour Beekeepers :
Shipston-on-Stour Beekeepers is a branch of the Warwickshire Beekeepers Association – registered charity no. 1197656 – which in turn is affiliated to The British Beekeepers Association (BBKA), and is open to anyone interested in beekeeping.
Our membership consists of the complete range of beekeeping experience, from beginners through to long standing members who are full of wisdom and help! We promote interest in beekeeping and provide ways and means of teaching the skills, knowledge and art involved in beekeeping as well as educating the wider public on all things honey bees.
Members enjoy regular monthly social meeting often with a topical talk scheduled, regular visits to member’s home apiaries, and invitations to various lectures and training programmes.
The map below shows where our members are (May 2024); we cover quite an area:
As you can see our members are predominately either side of a line from Banbury thorough Shipston-on-Stour to Chipping Campden. Our membership area includes Stretton-on-Fosse; Shipston-on-Stour (of course!); Tredington; Upper and Lower Brailes; Lower, Middle and Upper Tysoe, Hook Norton; and the Banbury area including Banbury itself, Tadmarton and Broughton. This year we have members in Brackley, Middleton Cheyney and Whittlebury in Northamptonshire. We welcome you all to Shipston Beekeepers.
Interested in joining us or want to know a bit more?
To find out a bit more about us please visit our About Us page. You will see what we are doing from our News items and our diary of events can be found in our Events Calendar.
A membership application form can be found on our Join Us page
Request a talk on beekeeping and bees for your organisation
If you would like a member of Shipston Beekeepers to give a talk on bees and beekeeping to your organisation please complete the form on this page.
Asian Hornet:
The Asian hornet arrived in France in 2004 and is now common across large areas of Europe posing a severe hazard for honey bees and other pollinating insects. Several sightings of this predatory insect have been made in recent years in the Midlands, the South and the West of England.
It is imperative that every effort is made to reduce the intrusion of the Asian Hornet into this country. For detailed information please see our Asian Hornet page.
