28th October – 30th October 2010
International classes and beekeepers' lecture convention

The venue: St George’s College, Weybridge, Surrey KT15 2QS. For directions see Transport. Want to take part? Download the Schedule.

2010 Show Opening Times
Thursday 28th October 1.45 pm – 6.00 pm
Friday 29th October 9.00 am – 6.00 pm
Saturday 30th October 9.00 am – 4.30 pm

Daily admission: £12.00 (Non – Members) Purchase Membership
Members FREE Accompanied Children, 16 yrs and under, FREE.

Would you like to enter the competitive classes? Download Show Schedule and view the full Programme and lecture convention.

Visit the Show
All beekeepers and members of the public are very welcome to attend the Show. The daily admission fee is 12UKP, payable at the National Honey Show booth in the main St George's College entrance, accompanied children 16 years and under are FREE. Members of the National Honey Show have FREE access to the Show over the whole three days as a benefit of membership. It only costs 11UKP (PayPal) to become a Member - for details of joining please see Membership page. The Trade Stands will be open to the public throughout the Show from Thursday afternoon onwards.

One of the benefits of becoming a National Honey Show Member is a FREE advance copy of the following year's show schedule. For details of membership visit the Membership page.

Getting Exhibits to the Show
Are you worried about getting your exhibits to the Show?

Send them by courier post to “Facilities” St George’s College, Weybridge, Surrey KT15 2QS to arrive after Wed 20th and before noon on Wed 27th October 2010. Or else get in touch with E H Thorne (Beehives) Ltd or Northern Bee Books, who have kindly offered to do your transporting for you, contact:

Paul Smith at E H Thorne (Beehives) Ltd
Beehive Works
Market Rasen
Lincoln LN8 5 LA
Tel: 01673 858555
Email: Paul @ thorne.co.uk

Jeremy Burbidge at Northern Bee Books
Scout Bottom Farm
Mytholmroyd
Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire HX7 5JS
Tel: 01422 882751
Email: Jeremy @ recordermail.demon.co.uk

Want to take part? Download the Schedule.

Slideshows 2009 National Honey Show
1. Saturday The Last Day (146 images)

Results and previous years slide shows are available here.

Mailing List
To join the Honey Show Internet mailing list  click here and SEND the message and await for further instruction to complete the subscription process. For more information about the mailing list see FAQ's.

Sponsors
The National Honey Show gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship of The Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers and Mr R Blaxland, former Master of the Wax Chandlers. Download article about their activities [28KB PDF].

Park Beekeeping Supplies www.parkbeekeeping.com
Lecture: Jim Ryan - Managing a colony to get the best from your bees - a seasonal perspective.

Omlet www.omlet.co.uk
Lecture: Kim Flottum - Urban Beekeeping - the Backyard Beekeeper.

Bee Craft Ltd - Beecraft: essential reading www.bee-craft.com
Lecture: Kim Flottum - L L Langstroth 200 years on.

BBKA www.britishbee.org.uk
Lecture: Kim Flottum - The Coming of Age of Varietal and Artisan Honey.

E.H. Thorne (Beehives) Ltd – helping beekeepers keep bees www.thorne.co.uk
Lecture: Dr Mark Goodwin - Beekeeping in New Zealand and the Manuka Story.

CABK www.cabk.org.uk
Lecture: Hans -Ulrich - Thomas How Bee Swarms Choose a New Home.

Maisemore Apiaries www.bees-online.co.uk
Lecture: Dr Nigel Raine - Learning to Forage in the Floral Supermarket.

Northern Bee Books www.beedata.com
Lecture: Hans -Ulrich Thomas - Bees and Beekeeping in Switzerland.

Bee Diseases Insurance www.britishbee.org.uk
Lecture: Dr Mark Goodwin - Controlling AFB without Drugs.

The Bee Farmers Association www.beefarmers.co.uk
Lecture: Dr Mark Goodwin - Paid Pollination Services.

Publicity Photographs
All the photographs taken at the 2008/9 National Honey Show as seen on our slideshows are available on CDROM for publicity use in beekeeping newsletters, websites, magazines articles and the general press. To obtain a copy FOC please contact the webmaster with your full postal address.

Press Releases and download copyright free images.

History of The National Honey Show
The first ‘National Show of Bees & Honey’ was held in 1923 at the original Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London. Read More.

Honey Show News 2010

15/08/10 The Skep Making and Toiletries workshops are now full.

03/08/10 Workshop Programme changes - website schedule amended.

01/08/10 The 2010 show schedule is now available on this site.

You can view a Slideshow of the 2009 show taken on Saturday the last day.

Cups and Trophies will now be presented by Lt Col Martin Young, Past President of Yorkshire BKA.

25/07/10 Download article by Jennifer Berry published in Bee Culture Magazine January 2010 An American Beekeeper in London PDF [1.37MB PDF].

24/04/10 Our Special 2010 Offer for New Beekeepers (To Secretaries of all Beekeeping Associations) Download Official Offer Letter in PDF.

Once again, we are offering FREE full annual membership of the National Honey Show to all those who have joined your Association since 1st August last year. This will entitle them to visit the Show and attend lectures and workshops (workshops must be pre-booked) throughout the whole three days of the Show. It will also allow them to enter their exhibits in the competitive classes free of cost.

To cut down on postal charges, there are important changes to the system this year:

1. All information about your new members must be sent to me showsec(no space)@(no space)zbee(dot)com by email by 31st July. Only emailed information will be accepted, and I will acknowledge receipt of your email by return.
2. The information we need is the names, the postal address for our records and, most importantly, the email addresses of your new members.
3. An individual letter from our Chairman will be sent by email to each of your new members. If they do not have an email address then, we will send this letter to you to forward to them.

NB the absolute cut-off date is, as in previous years, the 31st July 2010.
H F Capener Hon General Secretary

Archived News from the 2009 Show

03/12/09 The National Honey Show will be held at St George's College, Weybridge again in 2010, on Thursday 28th, Friday 29th and Saturday 30th October. We shall have more space, so the show will be bigger, and even better than the 2009 show. More information to follow in due course.

03/11/09 The BBC Radio 4 Food Programme coverage of the 2009 National Honey Show is going out this weekend Sunday 8th Nov 2009 @ 12:32 and repeated on Monday 9th Nov 2009 @ 16:00.

31/10/09 2009 Results page updated.

24/10/09 Traders page updated.

05/10/09 Due to high demand extra workshop Saturday PM: Make your own Toiletries - Dr Sara Robb - Saturday starting at 1.30pm. See Programme for details on booking.

New Honey Beer Class for 2009

Class 41. Honey Beer, any style, 3 bottles or cans. The beer should be commercially available and honey must be an ingredient.

Enter Online or Download the Entry Form (Class 41 only)

Francis Capener
Hon General Secretary