How to help

You can help us to provide vital, ongoing support to alleviate poverty by donating to the Bees for Development Trust. Demand for our work increases every year because what we do has a positive impact on people's lives. Below are just some of the thanks we receive as a result of your support. Our work is only possible thanks to you, so please give generously.

Make a regular donation

Set up a regular direct debit donation to the Bees for Development Trust and start changing lives today!

Alternatively, you can download a paper version (.pdf) of the direct debit donation form - click here

Make a one-off donation

If you're unable to make a monthly donation, please support us with a single donation using your credit/debit card today - it's so easy.

Alternatively, you can download a paper version (.pdf) of the direct debit donation form - click here.

To donate by Standing Order, download a form here.

If you are a US taxpayer, you can make your donation through the American Fund for Charities and obtain a receipt for income tax purposes.

If you would like to pay using a CAF Charity Card, please telephone CAF Bank on +44 (0)300 123 000 or Bees for Development on: +44 (0) 1600 713648.

Become a corporate sponsor

Become a corporate sponsor by donating £500 annually to the Bees for Development Trust.

Subscribe to Bees for Development Journal

Subscribe to the Bees for Development Journal - our quarterly magazine with readers in over 130 countries. It is a valuable source of information about apiculture worldwide, providing unique news and views.

Sponsor a subscription to Bees for Development Journal

Every day we receive requests from beekeepers in developing countries who would like to receive the Bees for Development Journal. By sponsoring a subscription to the Journal, you will provide a beekeeper from a developing country with an avenue into our beekeeping network, which is important for information exchange and making new contacts. For further information, watch this video on YouTube.

Sponsor a Resource Box

Bees for Development Trust helps projects and groups in developing countries by sending Resource Boxes - a pack of publications and materials for use at beekeeping events, meetings, training courses and workshops. We tailor the contents of Resource Boxes to meet the needs of recipients based on their specific training requirements and geographical location. You can sponsor a Resource Box and provide valuable training materials to a beekeeping group which will use them time and again. For further information, watch this video on YouTube. 

What we do with your money

With your help we are providing training, information and advice to people in 122 different countries. Our training materials are acknowledged as the first choice for teachers in Africa: journals, posters, booklets and training cards are read and re-used by many people over many years, and become permanent resources for beekeeping associations, projects and schools. We supplement these with our unique enquiry service which is often the only source of beekeeping knowledge available in developing countries. 

Letters of thanks

"I would like to thank you very much for your great support, by providing essential up to date information of beekeeping It has helped us greatly to upgrade our knowledge and skill of honey-bee management. The Journals are our permanent references. I have shared my information (knowledge) for 65 beekeepers at different levels. I hope it will continue. I want to work especially in relation with bee forage activities. Thank you very much." 
Abebaw Bekele, Ethiopia, December 2010

"We are very thankful for the Journals. It has improved our knowledge on beekeeping as a business, an income generating activity and as an environmental conservation. The content has tremendously encourage some of our members who didn't like beekeeping and now, after reading the Journals they have taken it up seriously." 
Robert Okodia, Adyaka Rural Youth Development Initiative Uganda, January 2011

"I acknowledge the receipt of resources for courses from Bees and Development. The materials will be used to train 5 new beekeeping groups for now until others are identified. On behalf of myself and the benefiting groups, I wish to thank Bees for Development for the donation of teaching materials." 
Stephen Kagio, Kenya Sep 2010

"Over 300 people read the Journal. I have photocopied it to give to many rural beekeepers. We held a workshop on hive making with agriculture extension officers at Chabwira Secondary School. I have now engaged Midlands State University who are ready to start a project that will benefit most students and the rural community in Zimbabwe. We have a problem of getting in touch with international markets. Please help us with contacts for market in Europe so that we can send our samples of honey and propolis for marketing purposes… we cannot raise enough money to buy literature like books but we are glad Bees for Development Journal is helping us. I have also opened a library in Mberengwa where beekeepers borrow the Journals for reading. I definitely wish to continue to receive the Journal as it is now the source of information for Midlands State University Beekeeping programme and Mberengwa District of the Midlands Province! I thank you for your assistance! May God continue to bless you." 
Jonathan Msekiwa, Mberengwa Beekeepers Association, Zimbabwe, 2010