Beginners Pack - free to all new beekeepers joining affiliated associations. Representation of beekeepers' interests with local and national bodies including MAFF, NFU, agricultural spraying contractors, MPs, and EC representatives. A delegate to BBKA ensures that Hampshire's voice is heard and heeded. Why not join a local association , go along to a few of their 'out apiary' meetings and look inside a beehive for your self, you'll be fascinated. The local associations organise their own summer sessions at each others beehives and winter meetings to listen to talks on beekeeping related subjects.
Most clubs also publish their own newsletter.
We would encourage you to join a local association , you will have beekeepers nearby who know your local area, who you can give you practical advice and help with your own beehive management. Of this sum 7.50 per member is then paid to BBKA to support national beekeeping representation, bee research and for third-party insurance cover for all members . The management of HBA is vested in an Executive Committee of twelve, elected annually by delegates from each local association and to whom the Executive Committee reports each quarter. Various co-opted subcommittees arrange the many county beekeeping activities mentioned above.