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.
2026 season · 1328 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
One day of one bee. 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, and your name on the show bench.
- Everything in Class 1
- Your name on the public show bench, if you want it there
- A photograph from that week's inspection, emailed to you
every month
Worker Bee for a Month
£30 for 30 days
A month at a time, or five pounds a month for as long as you like.
- Everything in Class 2
- The monthly apiary email, written by JP not by a robot
- First word on open day places
every year
Queen Bee for a Year
£250 a year for 365 days
A whole hive for a year. Built for businesses and for memorials.
- Everything in Class 3
- A named plaque on a real hive
- Your name or logo and a link on the show bench
- Four photo and video updates across the year
- A visit to the hive, arranged with JP
- Permission to use the photographs in your own posts
- A beeswax candle rolled from apiary wax
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.