ABKA Spring Day School 2015
Saturday April 25th
10.00 am - 5.00 pm with breaks for refreshments & lunch
THE VILLAGE HALL, SHIPHAM, SOMERSET BS24 1SG
Lectures from very knowledgeable and experienced beekeepers including
Norman Carreck
“Bee science - the last ten years” and “Pollen sources in Britain”
And
Prof Robert Pickard
“Wonderful things about Bees”.
THERE IS A SMALL CHARGE FOR THIS EVENT OF £7.50 (payable on the door) to cover
the cost of lunch, refreshments, the venue and speakers.
All visitors are welcome subject to booking
BOOKING is ESSENTIAL – If you wish to attend the Spring Day School please
contact Anne Rowberry preferably via email at [email protected]
by telephone on 01225 835639 or write to 4 Flatwoods Crescent, Bath BA2 7AH
Please ensure you send the following information; Names of attendees; Branch; email
address or telephone number and a send a stamped addressed envelope if you require a
receipt.
Please note we are expecting a very high attendance and it is important that you book
your place to avoid disappointment and assist with the catering.
REFRESHMENTS – A light lunch will be provided and tea, coffee & biscuits will be
available during breaks.
A raffle will be held on the day to raise funds towards the cost of the event.
Diane Sleigh (a Thorne’s agent) who runs ‘the Bee depot’ will be bringing bee
equipment/ hive parts/marker pens etc. for sale and Claire from ‘Hive Original’ will be
bringing her wonderful creams and bath oils etc. for sale.
Information about the speakers
Professor Robert Pickard
Robert Pickard provides scientific advice for the communications media and a wide
range of institutions. He is Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology at the University of
Cardiff; Visiting Professor at the Royal Agricultural University; a Fellow of the Society of
Biology and the Royal Society of Medicine; and a Trustee of the National Museum of
Wales. Much of his work has been involved with protecting consumers, the food chain
and the wider environment.
Formerly, he was Chair of the NGO Forum for the Royal Society for Public Health and
the UK Department of Health; Chair of the UK Consumers' Association, Which?; Director-General of the British
Nutrition Foundation; and Chair of the UK Government’s Foresight Task Force, Food's Contribution to Health in
the Future. As Chair of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, he reported to the Minister for
Energy in Westminster and the Ministers for the Environment in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. He
served for eight years on the Food Standards Agency’s Advisory Committee for Wales and was one of four
Independent Advisers to the Welsh Assembly Commission. He has also served on the Welsh Ministerial Task
Groups, Food and Wellbeing and Food and Fitness for Children and Young People; the Expert Panel for School
Meal Guidelines at the Caroline Walker Trust; and the EuroFIR Council, which co-ordinated composition
records on 21,000 foods in 47 institutions in 25 different countries.
Robert Pickard is also an international authority on the biology of honeybees and President of the Cardiff
Beekeepers Association and the UK Central Association of Beekeepers. Formerly, he was Editor of the Journal
of Apicultural Research. He has been described as “an original research scientist and a gifted teacher” and his
public lectures on agriculture, brains, energy, environment, honeybees, nutrition, Shakespeare and social
evolution have been popular throughout the world, from North America to New Zealand.
Norman Carreck BSc CBiol FSB FRES NDB
Norman Carreck has been keeping bees since the age of 15. He read
Agricultural Science at Nottingham University and joined Rothamsted
Research in 1987 as an agronomist working on nutrient uptake in cereal
crops. Between 1991 and 2006 he was apiculturist in the Plant and
Invertebrate Ecology Division, with responsibility for maintaining about 80
colonies of honey bees. He was also fully involved in the two research
groups, on pollination ecology with Prof. Ingrid Williams and Dr Juliet
Osborne; and bee pathology with Brenda Ball. Norman obtained the National Diploma in Beekeeping in
1996, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society in 2004, and a Fellow of the Society of Biology in
2011. He is a member of the Technical and Environmental Committee of the British Beekeepers Association, a
Trustee of the C.B. Dennis British Beekeepers Research Trust, a member of the Examinations Board for the
National Diploma in Beekeeping, a member of the Science and Evidence Advisory Committee for the Defra
"Healthy Bees Plan" and a UK member of the Executive Committee of the international honey bee research
network "COLOSS".
As well as carrying out bee research at the University of Sussex, Norman Carreck is the Science Director of the
International Bee Research Association and Senior Editor of the Journal of Apicultural Research.
Directions to Shipham Village Hall
New Road, Shipham BS24 1SG
Directions from North
From Bristol take the A38 South
Arrive at Churchill Traffic Lights
Continue for 1 mile, at petrol station fork left to Shipham.
The Hall is on the right, immediately after the 30 mile speed limit sign.
Directions from South
Take the A38 North towards Bristol
Continue after Sidcot Traffic Lights for almost 1 mile, turn off right for Shipham entering Broadway and left at
the cross roads back towards A38 for Bristol.
Going away from Shipham village centre, from Broadway Crossroads the access road for the Hall is next exit on
left, just after the Beech Road junction on the right and just before the delimiting speed sign.