A COMMUNITY beekeeping project has been awarded a grant of more than £1,400.
Four apiaries were established last year at Stewart Park and the Whitehouse, Saltersgill and Town Farm community allotment sites in a project co-ordinated by Middlesbrough Environment City in partnership with Middlesbrough Council and the Cleveland Beekeepers' Association.
It involves 37 people receiving beekeeping training and by the end of the year a harvest of 10lbs of honey had been collected.
The £1,442 windfall from the Co-operative Community Fund will be used to create two apiaries, increasing the number of Middlesbrough's Bee Friend beekeeping sites to six and enabling four new beekeepers to take up the hobby.
The project received an initial grant of £9,996 from the Big Lottery Local Food scheme and another from Middlesbrough's Healthy Town programme.
A further programme of beekeeping training will take place this spring before the project ends.
For more information, call Catherine Boyle on 01642-811300 or email catherineboyle.mec@classmail.co.uk
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