Hive Helpers

02/09/2026

Wasp vs caterpillar

02/09/2026

HH club collecting wildflower seed to plant and share 🥰

31/08/2026

A wonderful nature walk with the youth group at Waggoners Wells.

31/08/2026

I asked Madeline if she was a good swap or not. I think the look says it all…

29/08/2026

UPDATE! Our Summer Raffle has been drawn! The winners have been notified. Thank you to everyone who took part, we raised just over £800, which is an extraordinary amount and the most we have ever made on a raffle.

All the proceeds will go towards the running of our community clubs: MINIBEASTS, HH Club and Bee-PLUS.

A huge well done and thanks to Nirma who masterminded our raffle!

Lastly, we can’t think our generous prize donor businesses and individuals enough. You are all superstars!🤩


25/08/2026

What an abundance of blackberries there seems to have been this year!

I’ve heard that brambles seem to be one of those plants doing well in our increasingly (and worryingly) roasty summers and mild winters.

It’s thanks to pollinators that all these fruits developed, but how will climate change eventually effect our insect landscape?

23/08/2026

There’s still time to catch our final kids bee safari of the summer holidays on Wednesday (26 august), meet at 9:30 am at the Gostrey Meadows bandstand. No need to book, just turn up! It’s a free-bee! 🐝 All thanks to funding from Farnham Town Council 😊

☀️🎨⚽ A Summer Packed with Free Family Fun! 🚜🐝🎭

Over the past few weeks, children and families have been making the most of a fantastic programme of free activities made possible through £20,000 of grant funding from Farnham Town Council.

From arts projects and family farm visits to youth activities, holiday clubs, community events and theatre performances, it’s been a busy summer so far. But there’s still lots more to come before the new school term begins!

There are opportunities to join bee walks, enjoy community days and discover a wide range of free activities taking place across Farnham over the coming fortnight.

Find out what’s still happening this summer and make the most of the final weeks of the holidays at www.farnham.gov.uk/services/younger-people/ 🌞💚

☀️🎨🐝🎭

22/08/2026

Bedtime for bumbles at Farnham Community Farm. Male bumblebees leave their colonies once mature and see out the remainder of their lives in small territories which they patrol during daylight hours. After dusk they hunker down, rest and await the next day. Only females live in the nest their whole lives, and they make the most of any daylight they can to forage pollen for the larvae.

20/08/2026

To all those getting exam results today (including some of our lovely HH Club young people):

Well done for all the lessons 🖊️
Well done for the revision 📖
Well done for making the exam 👍🏼
Well done for doing your best ✅

You are all super stars!🌟

If your results were what you’d hoped for, congratulations! 🎉
If not, don’t stress, this is just your journey taking a different course to what you’d expected.

Whatever your results, remember your grades don’t define you… you’re way more than that. Enjoy your next chapter - however you take off towards it 🌸🫶

18/08/2026

In praise of flies, a poem:

They may enjoy paddling about in dog-do,
And wipe their feet on our picnics afterwards too…
But don’t be a hater,
To this pollinator.
They stop us drowning in corpses and poo.

💩
💀
🌸
🪰
💖

It’s true - flies lead doubly useful lives: munching their way through carrion and waste matter as larvae and then pollinating plants during their adult phase.

Plus, this greenbottle specimen is rather cute wouldn’t you say?