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Bees바카라 사이트™ Needs week 2025

Updated 11 June 2025

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Pollinators are a priority for the UK government and a key part of delivering the Environmental Improvement Plan. We know that bees, and other pollinating insects, are an essential part of our environment and play a crucial role in food production.

Defra works in partnership with many organisations and partners to help our precious pollinators survive and thrive.

Everyone has a part to play to encourage more beautiful butterflies and buzzing bees in your local area. We can all take simple steps to protect our pollinators and help to restore our natural world.

Bees바카라 사이트™ Needs Week 2025: 14 to 20 July

Bees바카라 사이트™ Needs Week is an annual event run by Defra, working with a range of organisations including conservation groups, businesses and charities.

The aim of the week is:

  • to raise awareness of the importance of bees and other pollinators
  • share ideas, actions and activities that highlight the ways in which everyone can help them thrive

We바카라 사이트™d love as many people and organisations as possible to get involved. We will share more details about Bees바카라 사이트™ Needs Week 2025 soon.

If you want to take part, email beesneeds@defra.gov.uk. For media enquiries, contact the Defra press office on 020 8225 7318

You can download a free promotional pack, whether you are planning an event or simply want to help spread the word.

The pack includes:

  • a poster showing 5 simple actions you can take to help pollinators
  • a blank event poster you can customise to promote your own Bees바카라 사이트™ Needs Week activities
  • activity sheets for children

5 simple actions

There are 5 simple actions that anyone can take to help pollinators:

  1. Grow more nectar rich flowers, shrubs and trees. Using window or balcony boxes are good options if you do not have a garden.
  2. Let patches of garden and land grow wild.
  3. Cut grass less often.
  4. Do not disturb insect nests and hibernation spots.
  5. Think carefully about whether to use pesticides.

Flower-insect timed (FIT) counts

This year, you can also get involved with invaluable citizen science.

All you need to do is simply spend 10 minutes watching flowers and insects in good weather. FIT counts can be done anywhere, including gardens and parks in warm, dry weather, any time from April to September.

Every single count submitted to the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS) helps make our data more meaningful, to help us learn more about where pollinators live and how their numbers are changing.

Read the PoMS and help us help pollinators!

Bees바카라 사이트™ Needs champions

Each year we celebrate Bees바카라 사이트™ Needs champions. The awards recognise and celebrate examples of exceptional initiatives undertaken by local authorities, community groups, farmers, businesses and individual people to support pollinators. Whether that바카라 사이트™s creating a wildflower patch, educating the local community about pollinators, or taking special measures on your farm.

Applying for a Bees바카라 사이트™ Needs champion award

Applications are now open for our 2025 Bees바카라 사이트™ Needs champion awards.

Applications close on 27 May 2025.

Download an application form to apply.

2024 Bees Needs champions

In 2024, we had 45 Bees Needs champions. These awards went to people and organisations who have taken inspiring action, however big or small, to benefit pollinators.

Our 2024 Bees바카라 사이트™ Needs champions were:

  • Ampthill Buzz Project
  • Asquith Primary School
  • Bagber Farm
  • Battlesbridge Railway Station
  • Bracknell Forest Council and The Lexicon
  • Cherry Tree Library Community Apiary
  • Cliffe Castle Support Group
  • Coton Loves Pollinators
  • Cuddington Manor Farm
  • Derby City Council Bees Bus Stops
  • Eden Primary and Coldfall Primary School
  • EJ Barker and Sons, Lodge Farm
  • Finchley Pollinator Project
  • Friends of Magpie Bottom
  • Friends of Portswood Rec and Southampton City Council
  • Gadebridge Park
  • Grangehurst Primary School
  • HMP Eastwood Park Prison
  • Huntingdon Riverside Park and Priory Park
  • Just Bee Garden in Congleton Park
  • Keighley Town Council Pollinator Project
  • Liverpool Pollinator Project
  • Mrs Burney바카라 사이트™s Bee Club
  • Neve바카라 사이트™s Bees
  • Nuts for Nature
  • Pinner Park Primary School
  • Pollinating London Together
  • Poynton Pollinators
  • RHS Bumbles on Blooms
  • Rosuick Farm
  • Rowcroft Hospice Estate and Cricket Field Road Community Garden
  • Sherburn in Elmet Town Council
  • South Gloucestershire Council for Jubilee Park and Cadbury Heath
  • Southerham Lane Field
  • Sussex Green Living
  • The Ropner Park Training Apiary
  • The Farmer바카라 사이트™s Arms Community Pub
  • The Worcester Environment Group for Worcester City Council
  • Walsall Council
  • Wapley Common and the Orchard for the Future
  • Wellcome Genome Campus
  • Whale Island
  • Wild About Huntingdon
  • Wildflower Lewes
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