Join SCBKA
Enjoy the benefits
For less than £2.50 per month you will receive:-
- Access to locally raised strains of honeybee
- Courses with mentoring for new beekeepers
- Apiary meetings during the summer
- Evening meetings throughout the winter at Llysfasi College and online
- Discounts on beekeeping supplies from C Wynne Jones and delicious Patchwork Paté
- Regular mailshots keeping you up to date with what is happening within our association, the Welsh Beekeeping Association and the wider beekeeping community
- Free bee disease insurance, which covers American Foul Brood and European Foul Brood
- Product liability insurance
- WBKA Welsh Beekeeper magazine four times a year
- Membership of the Welsh Beekeepers’ Association
- All the help you need to control varroa, and regular updates on varroa research
- Public liability insurance up to £5 million.
Membership Fees
| Membership type | Annual Cost |
|---|---|
| Full member | £30.00 (£25 before 31/01) |
| Associate member | £17.00 (£12 before 31/01) |
If you have more than 3 hives, there is an additional cost for insurance:
The additional premiums are:
- Up to 5 colonies (including the basic three) an additional £1.20
- Up to 10 colonies (including the basic three) an additional £4.70
- Up to 15 colonies (including the basic three) an additional £7.75
- Up to 20 colonies (including the basic three) an additional £9.50
- Up to 25 colonies (including the basic three) an additional £11.10
- Up to 30 colonies (including the basic three) an additional £13.60
- Up to 35 colonies (including the basic three) an additional £16.10
- Up to 39 colonies (including the basic three) an additional £18.10
40 hives or more?
For beekeepers owning 40 or more hives a different scheme, known as Scheme B, operates. This scheme is available to beekeepers that may or may not be members of a BDI member association. For further details contact the BDI Scheme B Manager. This scheme has higher levels of maximum compensation than the Scheme A. These are for Scheme B, £3,500 for up to 50 colonies insured and £5,000 above 50 colonies insured
Request to Join SCBKA
Please complete the form below and our membership secretary will be in touch.
This form is for new members only. Existing members will receive a link via email to enable them to renew their membership