Welcome to the website for Chalfonts Beekeepers Society.
Looking for Beekeeping Advice? Try our search box. Top right of every page.
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Thorne Sale
Thorne are having another sale, click here for details.
Refresher Course on Managing Bees
We are running a refresher course once a month on 4 Mondays next year >>>More
Beginners Classes 2012
The schedule is out, have you paid yet? >>>More
Membership
Renewals are due now, please click here for the forms and details.
Take a few moments to look around.
Newsletters
You’ll find our newsletters are full of knowledge about bees and skills in their management.
Checkout our Latest Newsletter
Meetings
We are an active group, with a regular schedule of monthly meeting, plus apiary visits. Each month we have a guest speaker who can speak from position of knowledge of bees and beekeeping. Come and join us at any of our Diary Dates over to the right, and the What’s On tab above. If you know someone who would be a great speaker let Gordon our Secretary know, you’ll find his contact details on the Contacts Us page.
Beginners Course
2012 still seems a long time in the future, but our plans for our 2012 Beginners Course are underway. The list of people interested this year was long, and we weren’t able to help everybody. If you’re interested in learning more about bees or becoming a beekeeper then you my like to consider attending our course. Details of the one we ran this year is here -> 2012 Beginners Course. Please contact our Education Secretary, Mary Chris for more information as soon as possible. Mary Chris can be reached via the Contact Us page.
Social Networking
We believe that membership of the Chalfonts Beekeeping Society brings huge benefits by way of social networking to beekeepers in the Chalfonts and surrounding area. To aid that networking further we have added ourselves to Facebook and other Social Networking sites. You’ll find a set of buttons at the bottom of each page, click on them if you’d like to post a comment about the page on your account on these networks. That way you’ll spread the word about what we are doing to support beekeeping and beekeepers. Min Morgan has kindly prepared a ‘get started’ guide to Facebook for those who would like to explore Facebook but haven’t already. You can now follow us on Twitter! Get the buzz on what’s happening in beekeeping. Log into your Twitter account and search for ChalfontsBees
News Feeds (RSS)
Checkout the News page (above) for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds which bring us news from other beekeeping groups and a few university research establishments. Do note that we do not control these feeds, and therefore can’t be responsible for their content.
Here’s a brief guide to what else you can find here:
The society was founded from the members of Slough Beekeepers in 1976 with the aim of providing a beekeeping society in the Chalfonts. The aim of the society is to promote the craft of beekeeping, publicise its benefits in the local community, and to foster co-operation between local beekeepers. 
It has been supporting and promoting beekeeping in the Chalfonts for 30 years.
From it small beginnings the society has grown to an active group of beekeepers with over 100 members. Society members have over 250 hives in the area, housing more than 12 million bees at the height of summer, ensuring pollination of fruit bushes and trees, vegetable crops and flowers. 
Local honey can be found for sale in delicatessens, butchers, health food shops and other shops in the area as well as at local shows during the summer. It is a natural remedy against hay fever.
The society also provides a service to the community by giving talks, exhibitions and providing a swarm removal service.
Contribution
If you’d like to contribute to the content of this website please email a Microsoft Word document and pictures to the webmaster. A number of pages on the website need populating. In particular, the following were identified as needing work: ‘This Time of Year’, Beginners Page, Equipment, Diseases, Library Review and Modules.
John and Richard are always hungry for great artices for our newsletter. If you’d like to write about your beekeeping exeriences please get in touch with John Catton via our Contact Us page.
Adopt a Bee Hive
Adopt a bee hive is a scheme for those who can’t keep bees themselves but still feel that they want to make a difference to the life of bees – find out how here.
