🗓️ Saturday 29th November 2025 (Please note this is on a Saturday)
🕐 10:00 – 11:30
📍 Dame Elizabeth Hall, Firbank Cl, Bournville. B30 1UA
🎤 Rhona Toft “Seeking Varroa resistant bees”
Rhona’s talk will look at her experiences since stopping varroacides in 2007, the mechanisms of Varroa resistance and suggestions of how to select for Varroa-resistant traits in your own bees.
🗓️ Saturday 6th December 2025
🕐 17:00
📍 The Garden House, 160 Hagley Road, Edgbaston B16 9NX
🎤 Christmas Festive Meal
Our annual Christmas meal will take place at the Garden House on Saturday the 6th December at 5pm. To secure a place, please contact Richard to arrange payment of a £5 non-refundable deposit by the 26th October, at the email address: social.birmingham@wbka.org.uk
🗓️ Saturday 24th January 2026
🕐 10:00 – 12:00
📍 “The Old Tool Shed”, Winterbourne Gardens, 58 Edgbaston Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2RT
“A cake for life” – a fund raiser for cancer research.
We will be holding a coffee and cake morning in early 2026, on a date to be confirmed, with all proceeds going to Cancer Research UK. If you fancy a cuppa, and a slice of cake, then come along to the Old Tool Shed (down the private path that leads to the greenhouses) at Winterbourne Gardens.
Let’s see if we can beat the total of £126 raised last year for Macmillan Cancer Support.
🗓️ Saturday 31st January 2026
🕐 11:00 – 13:00
📍 Dame Elizabeth Hall, Firbank Close, Bournville, Birmingham B30 1UA
🎤 Jack Silberrad (BSc Hons Ind. Dip. Bee Farming)
Following an incredibly busy 2025, Jack Silberrad, our Western regional bee inspector, is once again returning to Birmingham to delight us with a very special Saturday morning lecture at Dame Elizabeth Hall. The lecture will be a tour of various exotic pests that effect bees, a quick tour of hive diseases, the recommended way to inspect a hive, the current YLAH situation and a brief look at the work that underpins the “Healthy Bees Plan 2030”.
