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Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2025

Bumblebee Conservation Trust is a UK charity, based in Stirling, working to stop the decline of bumblebees through monitoring, habitat creation, species recovery and inspiring people to act. Its Annual Report covers the year to March 2025, when its BeeWalk scheme recorded its millionth bee.

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The Trust's BeeWalk scheme brings volunteers together to monitor bumblebees across the UK, and its Skills for Bees training helps people identify and record them. On the ground, it advises farmers and landowners and leads habitat and species projects across the country, from Bee Connected and Making a Buzz for the Coast in Kent to Species on the Edge in Scotland, Natur am Byth in Wales, Buzzing in the East End and Moss Carders of Cornwall. It also runs the Bumblebee-friendly Schools Award and campaigns for policies that protect pollinators.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 BeeWalk, the Trust's citizen science scheme, reached record highs of 1,005 active transects and 906 volunteers, and recorded its millionth bee in June 2024.
Key Metric 2 The Trust engaged 111 new landowners, gave land management advice covering 2,659 hectares and directly delivered 103 hectares of bumblebee-friendly habitat.
Key Metric 3 Total income was £2,460,693 in 2024-25, up from £2,253,432 in 2023-24, against expenditure of £2,555,652 (GBP).

Key Outcomes

  • 69% of landowners advised by the Trust made habitat changes, and a further 33% of the remainder intended to.
  • The shrill carder bumblebee was re-recorded in south Kent after a 12-year absence, and brown-banded carder and ruderal bumblebees were recorded foraging at Foreness Point for the first time since the project began.
  • More than 1,000 people attended Skills for Bees training, and BeeWalk data were used in 22 scientific papers.

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