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Inclusive community beekeeping for wellbeing, education & nature �

29/10/2026

🐝🎃 Did you know bees played a part in Halloween history? 🕯️

Long before pumpkins and trick-or-treating, medieval churches across Britain were illuminated by beeswax candles during All Hallows' celebrations!

Here in East Anglia, historical records even show people donating entire beehives to churches to help provide wax for their candles. 🐝⛪

A little reminder that bees have been part of our communities, traditions and history for centuries!

Happy Halloween from everyone at Project Apis CIC! 🎃🍯

28/10/2026

🐝 YOUR BUSINESS. OUR COMMUNITY.

Help support Beekeeping Without Barriers in 2027!

Project Apis CIC is looking for local businesses to sponsor our community apiaries across Norfolk and Suffolk.

Your sponsorship helps us:

🤝 Support 100+ volunteers across our community sites.

🌿 Provide opportunities for people to learn new skills, connect with others and spend time outdoors.

🌼 Encourage environmental education, responsible beekeeping and awareness of native pollinators.

🐝 Sponsorship opportunities:

⭐ Title Apiary Sponsor — £500 per year
🐝 Individual Hive Sponsor — £250 per year

Sponsors receive recognition, seasonal updates with photos and stories, opportunities to visit and a honey thank-you gift when available.

📍 Our six apiaries are in Lowestoft, Gorleston, Bradwell, Great Yarmouth and Ludham, with more locations coming soon!

Support your local community while giving your business something positive to be part of.

📩 Message us or email [email protected] to get involved.

🐝 Project Apis CIC

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23/10/2026

🐝💚 HAVE YOUR SAY – HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE OF PROJECT APIS CIC!

The 2026 beekeeping season has finished, and we're already looking ahead to some exciting plans for the future!

We're currently exploring the possibility of creating a new community space in Great Yarmouth, bringing together beekeeping, gardening, volunteering, outdoor learning and more opportunities for local people to connect.

But we want our next steps to be shaped by the people who actually use and support our community projects.

If you've attended one of our apiaries, volunteered with us or been involved in our activities during 2026, we'd really appreciate your feedback!

We'd love to know:

🐝 What you've enjoyed this year.

💚 How being involved has made a difference to you.

🌱 What you'd like to see us offer in the future.

🏡 Whether you'd be interested in using or helping develop a new community space.

Your responses will help us understand what we're doing well, where we can improve and what our community genuinely needs.

⏱️ It takes around 5 minutes, and responses are anonymous.

📝 Complete the questionnaire here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesXVldGMy7Cnc--gr8aYHgq6iMQ3W36cEkBs2lek5nQybbwg/viewform

Thank you to everyone who's been part of Project Apis CIC this year. We're excited about what we could build together! 🐝💚

14/10/2026

A little snapshot of our recent filming day with the East of England Co Op at our community apiary in Lowestoft 🐝 🎥

02/10/2026

🐝 What a way to end the season! 💛

On Friday 2nd October, we held our End of Season Bash at St Mary Magdalene Church, Gorleston, bringing together volunteers from across our different community apiaries to celebrate another fantastic beekeeping season.

A massive thank you to everyone who came along, and an even bigger thank you to everyone who has given their time to Project Apis CIC throughout the year. Whether you’ve joined us for beekeeping sessions, helped at events, tackled maintenance jobs, supported us behind the scenes, or simply turned up week after week ready to get stuck in — you’ve all played a part in making this year what it was.

We were also really pleased to announce and welcome Jay as our newest Director of Project Apis CIC! 🐝 Jay already plays a big part in Project Apis, running our Ludham Community Apiary, and we’re really excited to have him joining the board and helping shape the next chapter of Project Apis.

The food competition was fantastic, with some seriously impressive sweet and savoury creations featuring honey 🍯, while our photo competition had some brilliant entries capturing moments from across our apiaries and the season. 📸

The evening was ultimately about celebrating the amazing community that has grown around our apiaries. Thank you to everyone who has volunteered, supported us, partnered with us, visited an apiary or helped spread the word this year.

Project Apis simply wouldn’t be what it is without you.

That’s the 2026 beekeeping season wrapped up — now onto what comes next! 🐝💛

27/09/2026

We are very proud to announce the official renaming of our St Mary Magdalene Church Community Apiary to "Sam's Community Apiary"

Love you Sam 🐝 ❤️

04/09/2026

A message from Jamie, Cullen and everyone at Project Apis CIC

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear friend, mentor and fellow director, Samuel Jinks.

Sam was an integral part of Project Apis and helped shape both what we have become and what we hope to be going forward. More importantly, he was our friend. His humour, advice, support and company will be very deeply missed.

In one of the many conversations about bee-related nonsense that filled our meetings, we once spoke about the old beekeeping tradition of “telling the bees” the practice of informing the bees when something significant had happened, particularly when their beekeeper had died.

It was a tradition I never imagined I would have reason to think about myself.

Although Sam was usually much happier watching and heckling us than getting suited up and sweating over the hives, he was very much part of our beekeeping family. So today, we'll tell the bees about Sam.

Our deepest sympathies and love go to Gemma, Sam's family, his friends, and everyone affected by this horrible loss.

He will be very greatly missed.

Jamie
Project Apis CIC

30/08/2026

🐝 THAT’S A WRAP FOR 2026! 🐝

Our community apiaries are now officially closed to the public for the season.

As autumn approaches, it’s time to give our colonies some space to prepare for winter. We’ll continue essential checks and treatments behind the scenes, before reopening our public sessions around April/May 2027. 🌸

And what a season it’s been...

🐝 2 community apiaries → 6 fully operational sites in ONE YEAR!

A huge thank you to every volunteer, host site, funder, supporter, business and organisation that helped make this possible. We genuinely couldn’t have grown this quickly without you.

And next year? We’re aiming even higher.

🎯 The 2027 goal: 10 community apiaries.

More bees. More communities. More opportunities for people to experience beekeeping completely free of charge.

See you next season! 💛🐝

Project Apis CIC

19/08/2026

🐝 The season is nearly over…

We’re heading into the last few weeks of our 2026 community apiary sessions, so if you’ve been meaning to come along and try beekeeping, this is probably the sign.

All of our community sessions are **completely free to attend**. No experience needed, no equipment needed, and no need to know anything about bees before you turn up.

We’ll provide the suits, the tools and the bees.

📍 Tuesdays – The Mayfly Café, Lowestoft
📍 Wednesdays – St Mary Magdalene Church, Gorleston
📍 Thursdays – A.C.E CIC, Gorleston
📍 Saturdays – St John’s Church, Great Yarmouth
📍 Saturdays – St Nicholas Church, Bradwell
📍 Sundays – Brian’s Secret Garden, Ludham

⏰ All sessions start at 12pm.

If you’ve been putting it off all summer, you’re running out of summer.

Come and have a go before the bees settle down for winter. 🐝

17/08/2026

Few more photos we received from our filming day with the East of England Co Op at our Lowestoft Community Apiary, certainly beats our camera skills so we'll stick to beekeeping from now on 😂📸🐝

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Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

http://www.project-apis.co.uk/

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