{"id":5130,"date":"2010-06-29T11:16:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T10:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5130"},"modified":"2010-06-29T11:16:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T10:16:36","slug":"grants-for-beehives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/06\/grants-for-beehives\/","title":{"rendered":"Grants for Beehives"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in an earlier post on the plight of the bees<\/a>, the loss of bees could be a blow to UK economy<\/a>, that would cost up to \u00a3440m per year. I also eluded to the fact that myabe the government should provide grants to help people get started in Beekeeping.<\/p>\n

Well, a few local authorities seem to be doing just that. I mentioned a while back that the Coop were offering start-up Beekeeping grants<\/a> to people in Manchester, London and Inverness. It also seems as though Snowdonia National Park are also offering grants.<\/p>\n

In partnership with WBKA (Welsh Bee Keepers Association) and CALU Bangor University (Centre For Alternative Land Use), the Snowdonia National Park is offering anybody attending a training course through the WBKA, the opportunity to apply for a grant<\/a> through the Park in order to purchase a traditional beehive.<\/p>\n

these schemes sound ideal and are just what the government and other interested parties should be doing to encourage people to keep bees and raise awareness of the plight of the bees. Such a grant would certainly be a help for us and with one there would be no hesitation on our part to take up bee-keeping. We want to keep bees here, but the intial set up costs are quite high. Some help towards these costs would be great.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately we don’t live in Manchester, London or Inverness – actually, from my point of view that is fortunate, not unfortunate – but it does mean we don’t qualify for the Coop scheme. We also live just outside the Snowdonia National Park boundary. It’s probably less than a mile away as the crow flies, but I’m sure that will count us out of the Snowdonia National Park scheme as well.<\/p>\n

Looks as though its time to get onto our local councilors, the people at the Dyfi Biosphere Project and maybe the Rural Affairs Minister to see if there are any schemes where we live and if not, encourage someone to set one up. It has to be worth a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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