• A major international bee-keeping event
• Live and through webcasts which we help enable
• The Master is Patron
• We have sponsored for 31 consecutive years
• Our funding helps to record the lectures for the online audience
• The Blaxland bequest helps to fund a lecture and three prizes
• An entertaining day out – next on 23-25 October 2025
• A life-changing opportunity at a prestigious school
• Our funds enrol two scholars from disadvantaged backgrounds
• Both scholars are from Bexley
• Two Liverymen serve as Donor-Governors
• Making a difference in an area of deprivation: 43% of children at the school get free school meals
• We funded educational Chromebook computers that 97% of children said help them learn better
• Top maths scores have improved from 14% of class to an impressive 63%
• Training and equipment to set up beekeepers in African areas that are at-risk for food
• Our funding is helping to set up bee-keepers in Kumbungu, Ghana
• 175 trainees benefit from additional income that enables children to attend school for a better future
• Advises those in debt in the Borough of Bexley
• Managing over £700,000 in debt since Jan 1
• Helped 30+ people in need take back control of their lives.
• Our funding has enabled a three-fold expansion in capacity to help those most in need
• Supports victims of domestic abuse or trauma
• Counselling to build confidence
• Coaching skills to secure and maintain employment
• Group or individual sessions
• Our funding enables this support for 70 distressed Bexley residents
• We fund the provision of beeswax candles to the high altar of St Paul’s Cathedral from the legacy of Harold Aldridge in perpetuity
• We also provide candles for Igtham church, Kent, the legacy of Charles Todd in perpetuity
