Empowering people to improve their green spaces, enhance their environment, and boost wellbeing.
Bee Workers to Key Workers joined: idverde Community Investment Fund 2 years ago
Delivered 22 February 2021
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Liverpool bees helping Liverpool key workers by providing them balms to help soothe tired dry skin. We will also offer employment, volunteering and training opportunities in beekeeping in Liverpool
I was inspired to create this project after I saw pictures of NHS workers' faces and hands after their shifts. Their skin was so chapped and dry that I wondered how I could help in some way. Having just completed months of developing a Liverpool beeswax balm product this year, I realised the way I could help was to turn this into something useful and helpful at a time when it is most needed. All ingredients I use are 100% natural, vegan friendly and cosmetically tested for skin safety. The main part of the product that brings it back to Liverpool is the beeswax that has been harvested from hives all over the city. The worker bees are the ones which make it all possible - to keep their colony going, being nurse bees, protectors, foragers, all time handywomen (workers are all female!) and are in it together than just for themselves. This is what made me think of our city and how, by pulling together, we can, and do, get through anything.
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
We will provide key workers with needed face and hand balms to help soothe their skin during these difficult times. By doing so, we will contract a local unemployed young person to help create the products enabling them a step up in life and their environmental career. If the project can sustain itself, I will extend the contract for the young person to continue to work with B 4 Biodiversity. I will offer them specialist CPD training where they have the opportunity to develop their own learning. By December 2020, we will have taught 50 young local people beekeeping online in conjunction with our Blackburne House partnership. The aim is to select one student to be contracted to support B 4 Biodiversity beekeeping work and training that will develop their career in the environmental sector in Liverpool (starting spring 2021) Create an online shop where sales can be made and hand delivered locally or through Royal Mail if further afield
Steps to get it done:
We work with a number of partners to help deliver this project. These are: Blackburne House (to deliver beekeeping training to young people aged 14-24) Community gardens and apiaries with organisations we already work with such as Sefton Libraries, St Michael's Church, Ford Lane Garden and Liverpool University. We have developed and created a range of balms so the design process has already been completed and cosmetic license achieved. This stage is kickstart the project by providing to the NHS, keep providing to the NHS and create a sustainable social income to train and employ local Liverpool young people.
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It's time, we are ready to start work and make the Liverpool Bee Balms for our Liverpool key workers who have worked throughout Covid to help and serve people in the community. Thank you so much to everyone that contributed to the campaign. This would not have been possible without the kind help and support of each of you whether you pledged or shared the campaign out there. Like the bees, it has been the working together approach to make something happen, so THANK YOU for helping build this up. Watch out for the developments of this campaign unfold over the next few months 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
A big thumbs up to our pledgers and supporters who have got us over target with plenty of time left to go! We will look to end the campaign sooner than we thought and get started on making balms for Liverpool key workers to help soothe PPE skin irritation We are very very happy and look forward to getting this project up and running! Thank you all xxx
Whoop, 30 people have pledged since fundraising began!
Brilliant news, thanks everyone!
How will the money be spent?Total £5,308
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VolunteerB 4 Biodiversity CIC was founded by Liverpool beekeeper, Andrea Ku in 2013. Combining the studies in Fine Art in 2000 and Landscape Architecture in 2010 with the self employment ideas, B 4 Biodiversity CIC was created in 2013. It has been a huge rollercoaster ride of learning about real urban environmental issues and how communities can create a postivie impact for themselves and nature where they live.
Our aim is to improve and enhance local green spaces through environmental education and practical activities.
Over the last 7 years, we have worked with over 2000 Liverpool individuals coming from our educational partners, community groups, schools, prisons, artists, libraries and fellow small businesses.
Since 2015, we have worked with The Gateway Collective on a number of environmental schemes that involve learning to live sustainably in an simple low-cost low-tech way. This has been through food growing, beekeeping, composting, water harvesting, upcycling and recycling.
During 2020, we ran our first collborative markets at Ford Lane Garden, L21 and at North Park Community Garden, L20 selling produce and products we have grown or made ourselves. We notice a significant demand in locally grown food through selling so much of our products and after bashing our heads together, we came up with Made in Bootle in autumn 2020.
Project Owner: B 4 Biodiversity CIC The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
Contractor: Paul Harris The team responsible for building or installing the project.
