Sponsor a Bee
This week's bee is the Worker.
Female, sterile, and doing every job in the hive by rota.
Cleaner, nurse, builder, bouncer and chef, all before her third week. Never complains. Fine, she complains in dance.
Sponsor her for a day, a week, a month or a year. Same bee, you choose how long. Every sponsorship gets a numbered card made out to you or to whoever you are giving it to.
Buying it for somebody else? Tick the gift box when you check out. We hold the card until a date you choose and say nothing until then.
2026 season · 1337 of 15000 claimed
How long would you like to sponsor the worker?
Pick a length. The bee is the same, the certificate is the same, only the time changes.
every day
Busy Bee for a Day
£5 for one day
Twenty-four hours of one bee. She will not notice, but you will both know. The easiest present you will buy this year.
- A numbered card naming your bee and her hive
- A share image made for the card, not a photo crop
- One fact card about what she did that day
every 7 days
Bee of the Week
£12 for 7 days
Seven days of this week's bee. Buy it for yourself or send it to somebody as a gift.
- Everything in the day
- A thank you from JP by name, if you would like one
every month
Worker Bee for a Month
£30 for 30 days
A whole month in your bee's company. Certificate included, loyalty not guaranteed.
- Everything in the week
- This week's bee, her portrait and what she actually does, on the card
- The monthly apiary email from JP
- First word on open day places
every year
Queen Bee for a Year
£250 a year for 365 days
A full year of one bee. Statistically several bees, but we do not tell them that. Built for businesses and memorials too.
- Everything in the month
- A named credit or logo in JP's supporter thank yous
- Four photo and video updates across the year
- Entry to the monthly draw for a hive visit with JP
- Permission to use the photographs in your own posts
Straight answers
Straight answer, because it matters: nobody can track one individual insect. A worker lives about six weeks in summer. Your bee is a named companion in a real, named, photographed colony, and your card records the hive she belongs to. What your money buys is real: frames, foundation, feed, treatment and the hours.
Holybees is run by JP as an individual, not as a charity. Sponsorship is a purchase with benefits, not a donation, so there is no Gift Aid and no charity registration. The hives happen to stand on church ground, but the parish has nothing to do with this site and is not selling you anything: you are buying from JP.
You can cancel a sponsorship within 14 days of buying it for a full refund, unless you have asked for the certificate to be issued immediately and it has been. Recurring sponsorships can be managed or cancelled at any time from the link in your confirmation email, which opens a secure page where you control the subscription directly. You also get a reminder before each renewal.