Business supporters
We are the only charity in the UK leading the fight to stop further extinctions of bumblebee species. Associating your business with our work will enhance your brand image, engage and motivate your staff and customers, and demonstrate your commitment to social responsibility, sustainability, and biodiversity conservation.
Let’s work together to protect bumblebees through education, conservation and science.
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External platforms
Businesses can also donate and support us through external platforms. The Trust has signed up to the following: 1% for the Planet, Benevity, Easy Fundraising, Give as you Live, Pennies, Savoo, and Work for Good.
Case studies from our business supporters
Philip Trehern, Director at Ground Control
Through our work on our clients’ estates, we recognised that the plight of wild pollinators is critical to the future of nature in the UK and we wanted to work with an organisation with whom we could play an active role in delivering environmental impact to increase the number of pollinators on our land.
In 2021 Ground Control chose the Bumblebee Conservation Trust because we wanted to:
- engage and educate us and our clients
- use our existing skills to help them support bumblebees
- co-create innovative ways to increase awareness of wild pollinators and their environments.
Our partnership with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust has developed over the years from one of initial sponsor to an active partnership where we support each other’s environmental aims and work together to educate and inspire the youngsters of today to be the nature custodians of the future.
We recently joined forces when we went to Pinner Park School to raise awareness of biodiversity amongst the children. With the support of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, we helped the children plant native hedgerow, a micro-forest, fruit trees and a section of wildflower meadow.
Through hands-on education of our Bumblebee Ambassadors, pollinator experts explained why these habitats were chosen and what they do to support bumblebees. The three habitats included:
- Early flowering fruit trees, providing food for early emerging queens
- Wildflower meadows, providing summertime food for worker bees
- Native species planters, providing year-round food for bumblebees
We hope that we will develop our partnership with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust even further, so we can continue to create real impact and understanding around the future of biodiversity in the UK.
Chris Chippendale, Chartered Landscape Architect
My design involvement with Bumblebee Conservation Trust Chelsea Flower Show 2023 and 2024 has provided me with invaluable insights and perspective. My raised awareness through the Trusts research work has helped me reshape my design approach. I now see ‘what good looks like’ in the eyes of 24 bumblebee species, as well as a whole host of foraging wild pollinators they represent.
I have literally taken home the guiding principles for my own garden as well as incorporated them within our client’s designs. Our individual small changes can really have a cumulative positive impact for these valuable species.