As a member of Kidderminster Beekeepers’ Association you have joined the other roughly seven hundred members of the County association for Worcestershire, WBKA. The County has its own governing executive who are also branch members just like you, and it organises numerous shows and other activities which need helpers, so there’s plenty of opportunity to offer your talents to get involved with supporting and promoting beekeeping in Worcestershire.

Worcestershire Beekeepers’ Association was founded in 1882. As interest in keeping bees increased in the various districts, they gradually each formed their branches so that we came to have the seven branches we do today,

• Evesham
• Great Witley
• Hagley and Stourbridge
• Kidderminster
• Malvern and Upton
• North East Worcestershire (around Bromsgrove)
• Worcester

You are welcome (indeed, entitled) to join in with all the meetings and other activities of the County and the other branches. Contact details for the County and the branches are on this page on WBKA’s website. All of the branches have their own websites (which are linked to from that page) where you can find out what they organise, and feel free to go along (just, please, ask beforehand if they are doing something a bit specialised which might limit the numbers they can fit in).

The County is an Area Association Member of the British Beekeepers’ Association, which is how you are also a member of the BBKA.

There’s more about the story of the formation of WBKA on its website here.