LBKA: Join

LBKA is a volunteer-run members' association and registered charity that represents beekeepers and beekeeping in the London area.

We currently have 182 members 111 of whom have bees.

We provide information and promote the needs of bees and other pollinating insects through members' events, media appearances, public outreach and collaborations with councils, organisations and academics. We aim to provide advice on planting for bees and forage-creation programmes. To find out what we're about, come to one of our monthly meetings, for topical beekeeping advice and to chat to other members over coffee and cake.

Please consider joining LBKA (from £15) even if you do not keep bees. We are all volunteers and having a strong membership helps us meet our charitable objectives. Joining us helps us represent more of London's beekeepers and helps us carry out our various outreach, education and forage-creation programmes.

In addition, members can attend special members-only lectures and events, receive our periodic newsletter, can purchase bees from us, hire equipment, get advice and support and get discounts from some suppliers. Particularly if you keep bees, you should also opt for the full benefits of British Beekeeping Association (BBKA) membership of BBKA News and insurance for those who keep bees.

Annual membership runs until 30th September. If you join now, your membership will run until 30th September 2026.

If you have bees, you should become a full member which includes BBKA (British Beekeeping Association) membership. We will organise your membership and insurance. Most beekeepers will take full BBKA membership at £40 which includes the monthly BBKA News newsletter, public liability insurance, product liability insurance and bee disease insurance for up to and including 3 hives. You can take out cover for additional hives.

Please join online. The online form will give you the choice to pay by credit card (via PayPal) or request bank details for making an online payment.

Personal details

Name (first, last):

E-mail address:

Postal address:

Postcode:

Telephone number:

Membership types

All the options below include London Beekeepers' Association (LBKA) membership.

If you choose one of the options that includes British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA) memberships, we will also join you up to the British Beekeepers' Association. This has various benefits including a monthly magazine to your postal address and insurance. If you have bees, you should take LBKA with "full" (or "school" or "partner") BBKA membership.

LBKA membership (£15.00)
Good for members without bees. LBKA with BBKA "full" membership (£40.00)
Good for members with bees. Includes BBKA news and insurance. LBKA with BBKA "partner" membership (£32.00)
Good for members with bees who live at the same address as a full member. Includes BBKA news and insurance. LBKA with BBKA "school" membership (£40.00)
Good for schools with bees. Includes BBKA news and insurance. LBKA with BBKA "country" membership (£26.00)
Good for members without bees but want BBKA news. Does not include insurance.

Insurance

BBKA membership (except "country") includes £5m public liability insurance, £2m product liability insurance and bee disease insurance. Bee disease insurance for up to three colonies is included. Please ensure you take out enough cover for all your colonies because underreporting may render your cover invalid. More details here

Insurance 0-3 hives (included) Insurance 4-5 hives (+£1.20) Insurance 6-10 hives (+£4.70) Insurance 11-15 hives (+£7.75) Insurance 16-20 hives (+£9.50) Insurance 21-25 hives (+£11.10) Insurance 26-30 hives (+£13.60) Insurance 31-35 hives (+£16.10)

Where are your bees?:
This will help us understand the relationship between hives and forage and we won't share this information (except perhaps in aggregated form). Please put each apiary on a separate line and include postcodes where appropriate.

Feedback

Please tell us what you think of LBKA. What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? Should we be covering new topics? Any suggestions are welcome!
Comments will be kept confidential within the committee.

Honey yield survey

How much honey did you have this year? Apiary postcodes with honey weight extracted would help us get a picture of forage availability in London.
This will be kept confidential within the committee, but we may release aggregated summaries. This is optional.

Helping and getting support from other members

A reason to join a beekeeping association is to form local support networks. Our opt-in system will let local members and share the assistance they may offer or need. Only your name and the details you provide below will shared with other members... and only to those who also opt-in.

Whereabouts do you live? Say in as much or as little detail as you like.

What beekeeping experience do you have (e.g. how many years you've been a beekeeper).

Share my email address

I'd like to...
see other members' hives
accompany swarm collectors

Share my phone number

I'd like to offer to...
show my hives to other members
offer one-to-one advice
visit a member's hive to give help

Getting involved in LBKA activities

Would you like to volunteer to help us? If so, please provide relevant detail below. We will follow up with you if we think you can help.

Please don't worry if you think you won't be able to offer help or won't have time.

Helping at an LBKA stand, course or other event

Writing articles for the newsletter
Writing up events, writing regular features, taking photos, etc.

Helping at one of our apiaries
Making up frames, looking after colonies, training, etc.

Being a mentor
If you've done your Bee Basic and have kept bees for a few years, you should be fine. How many mentees could you take?

Talking to the media or other interested parties.
We are often asked for views on beekeeping issues.

Anything else?

Privacy

We will pass your details to the National Bee Unit if you opt-in by ticking this box: Opt-in
We strongly encourage members to opt-in. Passing your details to the National Bee Unit helps them plan in the event of disease outbreak to reduce effects on bee populations.

This information will be stored on computer records for use by LBKA solely for purposes directly relating to its activities. As a non-profit organisation, LBKA is exempt from having to notify the Information Commissioner or appearing on a public register. The information will be shared with BBKA and BDI as appropriate for membership records. LBKA will not pass on or sell information to any other body unless legally obliged to do so.

Gift Aid

As LBKA is a charity, some of the costs that you are paying can be treated as a donation for the purpose of Gift Aid. Gift Aid may be reclaimed by the charity from the tax you pay for the current tax year.

By ticking the box below, you are confirming your status as a current UK taxpayer, and committing to informing LBKA should your name, home address or taxpayer status change. You are also confirming your understand that if you pay less Income Tax or Capital Gains Tax for the current tax year than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on all your charitable donations, you are required to pay any difference to HMRC.

I am happy for LBKA to treat my membership fee as a donation for the purposes of Gift Aid.

Code of Conduct

I agree to abide by the Association Rules as adopted by the Trustees (opens in a new window) and do all I can to promote the interests of beekeeping.

Payment details are on the next page.