SBKA Bee Market 2026

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Poster to be updated soon

Sussex Beekeepers have for many years ran their annual Bee Market to celebrate all things relating to bees and pollinators. We moved to Uckfield Community College in the year of 2023 to accommodate the many stall holders who now join us.

There is a lot going on throughout the day to ensure an interest for beekeepers and non-beekeepers alike. Including bee equipment suppliers, a lively auction of equipment, children’s talk and activities, and a plant stall to name just a few of the many stall holders who regularly join us.

The popular event attracts people from East and West Sussex and further afield.

Food stalls are popular and have access to an adjoining terraced area.

PROGRAMME

• 9:00   Registration of auction entries
   
• 10:00 Bee Market opens to the general public.

• 11:00 Brief talk about ‘How to Take up Beekeeping’ – by Malcolm Wilkie Chair of High Weald Division in theatre AG02

• 12:00 Children’s activities – In the workshop we look at the life inside a beehive, the children act out the different roles of the bee and at the end we taste honey from around the world and get to eat the “bee eggs, nectar and pollen” the children also take away an activity sheet.. by Maggi Pratt a nursery practitioner and Co-owner of the ‘Bee People’ bee keeping supplies company. The workshop will be in Reading Room AG14

• 12:00

• 14:00 Auction of Bee Equipment, & Bees in theatre AG01

•  16:30 Bee Market Closes

This year’s Bee Market talk – “

To be updated soon

There will also be a talk by Malcolm Wilkie long time Education Officer at the High Weald division (High Weald BeeKeepers’ Association – Beekeeping in the Sussex High Weald) of the SBKA . Malcolm will reprise his very popular talk of last year describing how to take up beekeeping and together with some members who have taken up the noble art of beekeeping under his tutelage will share with you some amusing anecdotes. So, if you are thinking of / planning to take up beekeeping this is one for YOU!