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Bees' Needs

Learn how to enter the Bees’ Needs Champion Awards and get involved in Bees’ Needs Week, with posters and activity sheets to download and use.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published:
14 July 2022
Last updated:
13 July 2026
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  1. We have published the 2026 Bees' Needs Champions.

  2. Added information about events planned for Bees’ Needs Week 2026. Applications for the 2026 Bees’ Needs Champions Awards have now closed. This year's winners will be announced during Bees’ Needs Week 2026.

  3. We have updated the content in the Bees’ Needs week attachment.

  4. Added the Bees' Needs Champion Awards applications for 2026.

  5. We have published the 2025 Bees Needs Champions.

  6. We have updated the information for Bees’ Needs week 2025.

  7. Applications have closed for our 2025 Bees’ Needs champion awards. This year's winners will be announced during Bees Needs Week 2025.

  8. We have updated the information Bees’ Needs week 2025.

  9. Added promotional materials for Bees’ Needs Week 2025.

  10. The deadline for applying for a Bees’ Needs champion award has been updated to 27 May 2025.

  11. Updated to remove references and links to the National Pollinator Strategy, which concluded in 2024.

  12. Updated for Bees' Needs Week 2025, including adding a new application form for the 2025 Bees' Needs' champion awards.

  13. We have published the 2024 Bees Needs Champions.

  14. Bees' Needs Week 2024 will take place from 8 to 14 July 2024.

  15. Added section on how to apply to Bee's Needs champion award to Bees Needs' week page.

  16. Added an attachment on how to nominate yourself or someone else for a Bees' Needs champion award. Added the Bees' Needs champion award application form.

  17. We have published the 2023 Bees Needs Champions.

  18. Updated the content under the 'Bees’ Needs Week 2023' heading.

  19. Added information about the interactive bee event under the 'Bees’ Needs Week 2023' heading.

  20. Bees' Needs Week 2023 is due to be held 10 July 2023 to 16 July 2023.

  21. First published.

Applies to England

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Bees’ Needs Week

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Bees’ Needs Champion Awards

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Bees’ Needs Week promotional materials pack

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Bees and other pollinating insects are an essential part of our environment. They play a crucial role in food production.

Find out how you can:

  • get involved in Bees’ Needs Week, which happens every year
  • enter the Bees’ Needs Champion Awards

Bees’ Needs Week promotional pack

Bees’ Needs Week 2026 runs from 13 to 19 July and helps raise awareness of how everyone can support bees and other pollinators.

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

The promotional 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 Bees’ Needs Week activities
  • activity sheets for children

Applying for a Bees’ Needs Champion Award

Applications have closed for our 2026 Bees’ Needs Champion Awards. Applications for our next round of Bees’ Needs Champion Awards will open in early 2027.

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