Reigate Beekeepers
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AUCTION OF BEES & BEEKEEPING EQUIPMENT ON SATURDAY 31st MARCH 2012, MICKLEHAM, SURREY
Reigate Beekeepers' Auction will be held on Saturday 31st March 2012. The auction of equipment will start at 12:00 p.m. and the auction of live Bees will start at 3:00p.m.
Viewing on the day from 11:00a.m.
Refreshments will be available on site.
The location is Mickleham Village Hall, Dell Close, Mickleham, Surrey RH5 6EF - this is just off the A24 between Leatherhead and Dorking. Click here for a map
The
auction will be restricted to 300 lots so if you want to sell your unwanted
items please complete the sellers form as soon as possible. A catalogue of items to be sold will be available on this website from on Friday, 23rd March on the website (a further update of additional lots may also be added on Friday 30th).
A catalogue of items to be sold will be available on Friday, 1st April on the website.
Auction Catalogue - Click here or the PDF Icon 
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Sellers. Please use the form below to submit items to be sold. Remember the earlier the submission - the earlier the auction slot!
For items to be sold - click here for a sellers form
Auction terms and conditions can be found here:
SWARMS!
For swarm help, click here or the PDF below
Reigate Beekeepers Taster Day 2012 - Click here for details
Saturday 21st April - 10am to 4pm at Mickleham Village Hall
- £40 per person in advance (to include Teas/Coffees)
- Please bring your own lunch.
- At Mickleham Village Hall and RBKA Apiary
- In Dell Close (Opposite Box Hill School) Near Dorking, Surrey RH5 6EA
The day will be a mixture of talks and slide shows on the basics of Beekeeping, together with informal chats with Beekeepers from the Association and a practical session in our Apiary seeing the equipment needed and looking in the Beehives. Although we will have protective clothing to put on please bring/wear thick trousers and boots (wellies or similar). Please advise us if you have had any allergic reaction to Bee stings previously. If you would like to secure a place please send your name and contact details together with your cheque (payable to Reigate Beekeepers) to Jacqui Essen at The Croft, 2 Raleigh Drive, Smallfield, Surrey RH6 9PD (
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Reigate Beekeepers at Work - photo by Bob Maurer
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Beginners Course
For winter evening courses - see "Winter Evening Classes" on the left hand side icons in the "Becoming a Beekeeper Section"
See Beginners Beekeeping Course by clicking the icon above.
Improvers Theory / BBKA Module 1 Exam Theory Couse
None RBKA members welcome, but please contact
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to check availabilty of places.
A wide ranging course that re-covers
some of the essential principles of beekeeping at an increased depth compared to
the introductory course. The BBKA Exam Module 1 syllabus will be followed, with
some additional material to cover other areas of interest. Topics include,
hives, principles of bee space, a year in the apiary, making nucleus and turning
them into production colonies, marking and clipping queens, spring management
and management for heather or oil seed rape, moving colonies, clearing supers,
basic biology, swarm control and swarm prevention. Students will have to
complete homework which will be of comparable depth to the BBKA Module 1
correspondence course - e.g. borrowing of books from the club library / purchase
of relevent texts and additional study will be required in addition to the
course itself.
Cost would be £90 per person. A minimum number of
candidates is needed to guarantee the course goes ahead.
Expressions of
interest to Adam Leitch
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or
07813 617655
Students must have a minimum of 2 years beekeeping experienceor their Basic Exam.
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Pending articles will be added as soon as some issues with the website are resolved.
RBKA Planting Work Parties
Monday 21st and Thursday 24th February from 10am at Henfold Lane Apiary. Help required with light jobs or heavier jobs. Wellies required! Bring a spade
if you wish to dig the soil for planting the hedgerow whips. No finish time
has been decided, but if the weather is good we hope to work on after llunch time
2 Day Beginners Course / RBKA Taster Days - Click Icon below for more details
Reigate Beekeepers 2-Day Beginners Course / Taster Day - Click Here for details
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Reigate Beekeeper Audrey Gill has received a Mayor’s Community Award. At a ceremony in the Town Hall at Reigate on 16th November, around twenty individuals and groups were presented with awards for conspicuous contribution to the community in their particular fields. Audrey was the last to receive her award as she had been singled out by the trustees to receive the major award of the evening – the Outstanding Achievement Award. The full citation was ‘for her dedication and commitment to Voluntary Service in the Local Community in the Outstanding Achievement Award category’.
All of us who know Audrey know how much she deserves this wonderful accolade. Well done Audrey!
Subject to minimum
numbers. Please see main page for application form /or contact
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Applications
of interest for the Winter (Beekeeping Theory) Evening Classes is now
being taken. See the menu bar (left hand side, part way down) called
"Winter Evening Classes"