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• 2025 Annual General Meeting - Sunday 6 April, 2025

  • When
    06 April 2025
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    13:00 - 14:30
  • Location
    The Bee Academy

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  will be held 

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  Sunday 6 April, 2025

  13:00 - 14:30

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  The Bee Academy 

  

  1. Opening Remarks & Welcome: Helen Nelson

  2. Apologies for Absence: Helen Nelson 

  3. 2024 AGM Minutes:                Helen Nelson

  4. Matters Arising:                     Helen Nelson

  5. 2024 Activity  Report:     Helen Nelson/Malcolm Evans

  6. Proposed changes to the Constitution :   Helen Nelson

  7. Election of Trustee Management Board:   Helen Nelson

  (closing date for nominations to serve as trustees is 26 March) 

  8. Other Relevant Business (if any):  The 2025 Chair

  Documents relating to the AGM are, and will continue to be made available as they are finalised

  Download the 2025 AGM Agenda Here
  

  Download the 2024 AGM Minutes Here

  Download a Proxy Voting Form Here
  

   

  Followed by Light Refreshments 

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  the Library will be Open for Business after the meeting

  
  

  

     

  Download a Trustee (all roles) Nomination Form Here
  

  Nomination Forms for the 2025 Trustee Elections should be returned by Midnight on Wednesday 26 March.

  Email Completed Nomination Forms  - Click Here

  A candidate for an Office Bearer or Trustee Role Must have a proposer and seconder. They must also sign the form to indicate that they are willing to stand for election. 

  All charity trustees are required to complete and sign a Declaration of Eligibility and a Register of Interests Form. Both forms will be made available to all those standing for election to the TMB

  Please complete and Return the Declaration and Register of Interests forms Before the AGM on 6 April. 

  

  

  If this invitation was part of an Newbattle Beekeepers Association event announcement please let us know if it is your intention to attend.

  This is your personal Invitation - Do Not Share 

  

  
  

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• 2025-26 Basic Beekeeper Course - Your Invitation to Reserve Your Place

  • When
    01 July 2025
  • Location
    The Bee Academy & Newbattle Teaching Apiary
  • Spaces left
    9

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  What Will I Learn?

  The management and manipulation of a colony of honey bees over the period of one year. How to use the equipment required to undertake the work needed to look after the bees including the smoker, the hive tool and feeding equipment. Also, the maintenance and cleaning of equipment and hive parts. Assembling the frames, fitting the foundation in the frames and spacing the frames in the brood chamber and supers of the hive. Harvesting and processing honey. The life cycle of the honeybee and swarm prevention and management.

  Pests and diseases of the honeybee together with their prevention and treatment. How to avoid and treat stings. Health and safety in the apiary.

  The topics will be covered in one to one discussions with your mentor, monthly meetings, forum meetings, demonstrations, and other training events.

   

  
  

  In addition the course will prepare you for the Scottish Beekeepers Association  Basic Beekeeping examination - the first step in the SBA examinations system. The oral and practical over the hive examination normally takes place in June at the association Newbattle Teaching Apiary using the hive you have looked after for the past year.

   

   

  Places are limited and will be allocated to members only                                              on a First Come - First Served Basis

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