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EVENTS

Upcoming Events

  • Apiary visit to Woodbank Apiary
    Apiary visit to Woodbank Apiary
    Sat 07 Jun
    07 Jun 2025, 14:00 – 16:00
    Woodbank Apiary, Little Moor Lane, Stockport SK1, UK
    David will demonstrate all you need to know about setting up your own queen rearing. Light refreshments will be available. Bring a clean bee suit!
  • Apiary visit to Woodbank Apiary
    Apiary visit to Woodbank Apiary
    Sat 12 Jul
    12 Jul 2025, 14:00 – 16:00
    Woodbank Apiary, Little Moor Lane, Stockport SK1, UK
    David will demonstrate how to keep your comb looking good and helping the bees to rear the best brood. Light refreshments will be available. Bring a clean bee suit!
  • Romiley Young Farmers Show
    Romiley Young Farmers Show
    Sun 27 Jul
    Waterside Farm
    27 Jul 2025, 09:00 – 17:00
    Waterside Farm, Waterside Farm, Otterspool Rd, Romiley, Stockport SK6 3LQ, UK
    Stockport Beekeepers will have a stall selling honey and other beekeeping products. The exhibition hive of live bees is popular with the public. Join us with your products or talk to the public about the joys of keeping honeybees.
  • Beekeeping Taster Day - morning session
    Beekeeping Taster Day - morning session
    Sat 02 Aug
    Woodbank Park Apairy, Offerton
    02 Aug 2025, 10:00 – 12:00
    Woodbank Park Apairy, Offerton, Little Moor Lane, Stockport SK1 4HW, UK
    Fancy beekeeping as a hobby? This is an opportunity to experience honey bees in the safety of a controlled environment with experienced beekeepers. The cost is £25 per person including a jar of honey from the bees at Woodbank Apiary.
  • Beekeeping Taster Day - afternoon session
    Beekeeping Taster Day - afternoon session
    Sat 02 Aug
    Woodbank Park Apairy, Offerton
    02 Aug 2025, 13:00 – 15:00
    Woodbank Park Apairy, Offerton, Little Moor Lane, Stockport SK1 4HW, UK
    Fancy beekeeping as a hobby? This is an opportunity to experience honey bees in the safety of a controlled environment with experienced beekeepers. The cost is £25 per person including a jar of honey from the bees at Woodbank Apiary.
  • Disley and Lyme Horticultural Show
    Disley and Lyme Horticultural Show
    Sat 16 Aug
    Disley Amalgamated Sports Club
    16 Aug 2025, 10:00 – 17:00
    Disley Amalgamated Sports Club, Jacksons Edge Rd, Disley, Stockport SK12 2JR, UK
    Stockport Beekeepers have had a popular stall at Disley for many years selling honey and bee related products. The demonstration hive, with live honeybees, is the main attraction as people try to spot the queen.
  • Apis through the Looking Glass by Graham Royle
    Apis through the Looking Glass by Graham Royle
    Wed 10 Sept
    10 Sept 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
    Woodford Community Centre, Chester Rd, Woodford, Stockport SK7 1PS, UK
    This presentation is taken from his excellent book of the same title. An amazing close up of honeybee anatomy from this popular presenter.
  • Sustainable rearing of locally adapted queens by Karl Colyer
    Sustainable rearing of locally adapted queens by Karl Colyer
    08 Oct 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
    Woodford Community Centre, Chester Rd, Woodford, Stockport SK7 1PS, UK
    Karl is Deputy Chair and Publications for Bee Improvemnt & Bee Breeders Association. (BIBBA). He enjoys building his own hives from recycled wood where he can and is a very practical and hands-on bee breeder, bringing his engineering, quality and production experience to the fore.
  • Stockport Beekeepers Honey Show
    Stockport Beekeepers Honey Show
    Sat 08 Nov
    Woodford Community Centre
    08 Nov 2025, 14:00 – 17:00
    Woodford Community Centre, Chester Rd, Woodford, Stockport SK7 1PS, UK
    A chance to enter your honey and other products of the hive into the annual Stockport Beekeeper Show.
  • 2026 Beekeeping Theory Course
    2026 Beekeeping Theory Course
    Mon 05 Jan
    Woodbank Community Association
    05 Jan 2026, 19:00 – 21:00
    Woodbank Community Association, 235-237 Turncroft Ln, Offerton, Stockport SK1 4BN, UK
    This course starts on January 5, 2026, from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and continues for nine consecutive Mondays until March 3. The schedule covers all aspects of beekeeping, enabling someone to begin this exciting pastime. A practical course complements this course in May 2026.
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