Bee Workers to Key Workers

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Funded on
29 Jun 2020

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

£5,341 Raised of £5,308

31 Backers

100%

Our Delivery Report

Funded on 29 June 2020 | Delivered on 22 February 2021

£5,341

RAISED

31

BACKERS

40

DAYS TO FUND

BIGGEST PLEDGE

£2,172

From Mayor of Liverpool

£20

MOST POPULAR PLEDGE AMOUNT

2026

people have visited this project!

Lucy Dossor paying community donations in :-) donated £10

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Cllr Lawrence Brown - Mayoral Neighbourhood Fund

Cllr Lawrence Brown - Mayoral Neighbourhood Fund donated £369

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2026 Bee Balms to 2026 Liverpool key workers provided

Maria Brewster

Maria Brewster donated £30

Transition Liverpool donated £50

idverde UK donated £250

More about our impact

The environment

We gave out 50 packs of wildflower seed bombs to young people who undertook our online beekeeping course run in collaboration with Blackburne House

The local economy

We employed a local young person 1 day a week to make the bee balms. We also employed another social enterprise to help distribute the balms to key workers all over the Liverpool City Region area

Activity, health and leisure

Our balms were well received by key workers so much so we have had dozens of orders during the campaign and after the project ended. We have been able to sustain this campaign on a smaller scale by continuing to make balms for key workers.

https://www.madeinbootle.co.uk/

B 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.