Trust led projects
Many of our conservation projects continue to focus on work with the UK’s rare bumblebees. Our projects are varied throughout the UK and range from training BeeWalkers to creating habitat within urban communities. Our past successes have created lasting partnerships including our work with the Rethink Nature partnership, a group of leading science conservation organisations.
We have a number of conservation projects in place helping to safeguard the UK’s bumblebee populations. Beginning with our national bumblebee-monitoring scheme BeeWalk, a citizen science scheme established over 10 years ago to collect data on the abundance and distribution of the UK’s bumblebees, using this data as widely as possible. This led to our Skills for Bees project in Scotland.
Additionally, a 10 year national conservation strategy to save one of England’s rarest bumblebees, the Shrill carder bumblebee, is in place working with partners to increase habitat, connectivity, evidence data and have an increased understanding of the needs of this bumblebee.
Furthermore we have a number of projects aimed at species recovery, including the Great Yellow bumblebee: On the Verge and Bee Connected, a three-year restoration landscape scale project based on the South Kent and East Sussex coast.







