Grants

Every year the Trust provides grants to individuals and organisations that align with our charitable aims. We are looking for projects that:

Enhance the environment for all pollinators
Further our understanding of the true nature of the honey bee
Provide ongoing educational, spiritual, artistic, scientific and inspirational outcomes for the public and honey bee community

Past projects have included:

Film - Être Avec Les Abeilles

Funding to Perrine Bertrand & Yan Grill for their film Être avec les Abeilles - A film resolutely shot on the side of bees, full of hope, enriching, committed, exciting and politically incorrect... that will transform the view of this insect and the living world.

Research - Study of Wild Bees in Ancient Tree Forests in the UK

Funding to Helen Leaf for her work studying wild bee colonies in ancient UK forests.

Community - Palestine Hive Log Hive Project

Funding a project with the aim to bring the two communities together through a common cause, ie beekeeping, reflecting the harmonic and social life of the bee into their own lives

Research - Pesticide Impact on Pollinators

Funding to David Goulston of Sussex University for research into the environmental risks of neonicotinoid pesticides

Wilderness - Supporting wild bee research in South Africa

Funding to Jenny Cullinan and Karin Sternberg for their work in protecting indigenous bees in their unique biome of thre cape peninsula, safeguarding their diversity and gene pool for the future.

Learning - Busaries for Learning from the Bees Conference

Helping to fund 20 bursaries to the Trust’s “Learning from the Bees” for those in education or low income.

Rewilding - Restoring Tree Beekeeping Traditions of Beleraus

Restoring tree colonies to the Naliboki Forest in Belarus, and a centre to learn this ancient craft.

Restoration - Providing Lost Habitats to Bees

Funding to Celine Loqueville to enable free-living bee populations in Burgundy, France

Documentary - Honey In The Heart

Funding to Bee Time to support their documentary "Honey in the Heart" - a film about encounters with individuals and organisations in the Middle East working with bees in socially innovative ways.

To apply for funding we require a concise proposal (2 pages maximum) describing your project and financial plan. The proposal must clearly show:

How the project aligns with the Trusts aims
Why the funds are needed, and what other funding sources you have approached
Budget details and how the money will be spent
How the recipient will demonstrate that the objectives of the funding have been met
Timescales

At present grants are between £500 to £2000 British Sterling per project. Projects are evaluated on a quarterly basis. The Trust looks favourably on match-funded projects. The operations of the Trust are transparent, therefore the funding of projects and the level of funding will be publicly available information.

We would expect a project to build in suitable reporting stages so that we can evaluate how successful the project has been and be able to report back to our supporters.

You will be required to acknowledge the Trust’s support in any written, online or published material relevant to your project (this also includes Social Media outlets).

Please note that the Trust does not give grants for:

Standalone travel or conference registration fees
Academic chairs
Long-term or core funding (such as overheads or infrastructure within organizations)
Retrospective funding of projects (i.e. costs already incurred)
Entrepreneurs seeking funds for enterprises leading to commercial gain.
Other charities whose intention is to redistribute funds to external applicants
Basic beekeeping enterprises
Projects that may be considered personal lifestyle choices

Grant applications can be sent as a pdf attachment to info@naturalbeekeepingtrust.org, with subject “NBT Grant Application.”