Save the Bees Campaign
Our Bee Lovely campaign was launched back in 2011 with one important aim, to help save the bees by banning neonicotinoids. Every time you’ve chosen a Bee Lovely product over the past ten years, you’ve helped us donate to charities that protect these humble, vital creatures and we give 3% of the sales to them. In fact, we’ve raised over £250,000 so far.
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How we’ve helped save the bees…
2011
We launched our Save the Bees campaign to combat the rapid decline of this vital pollinator. It was named Best Campaign by the Ecologist and we raised £13,000 in total for our bee-friendly charities. We also hosted a Bee Symposium with guest speakers from environmental organisations addressing the problems facing bees and what can be done to regenerate the UK bee population.
2012
We started our Bee Lovely petition to ban neonicotinoids, as well as launching our very own Bee Lovely collection to support donations to bee initiatives across the UK. Our first product, the Bee Lovely Hand Cream was specially created for the campaign and £1 from every product sold was donated to BugLife, LandLife and Pesticide Action Network UK.
With 120,000 signatures, we handed over our Bee Lovely petition to 10 Downing Street, helping to secure a ban on deadly neonicotinoid pesticides. The European Commission voted to suspend the use of three neonicotinoid insecticides. The decision meant that Europe would be enforcing the world’s first continent-wide ban on these widely used insecticides. Great news for bees!
2016
We continued to raise money from our Bee Lovely collection to help support our bee-friendly charities. We also helped London Beekeepers Association to plant 1,000 wildflowers at Mudchute Farm to encourage bees and other pollinators to thrive and flourish there. From 2016-2020, £67,000 of donations from our Bee Lovely campaign enabled Bees for Development to set up over 1,000 beehives in Uganda.
2020
By September 2020, over 56 million bees had been supported in Ghana. With 836 new hives in cashew orchards and 300 hives in citrus groves. The beehives really help to increase the farmers’ yields as well as provide honey and an extra cash income for the farmers. To date, we’ve raised a total of over £250,000 for bee-friendly organisations
2021
We’re helping to protect biodiversity in the UK and helping to save one of Britain’s rarest bumblebees, the shrill carder bumblebee. We’re working closely with our partners at the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to help support bumblebees and all pollinators.
2022
Over 50 businesses and organisations, including Neal’s Yard Remedies, The Body Shop, Yeo Valley, the British Beauty Council and Greenpeace, have come together to support an open letter written by Neal’s Yard Remedies calling on the government to implement a total ban on the use of neonicotinoids in the UK. In the letter to the Prime Minister, the signatories ask for there to be no more derogations for pesticides following the decision by Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, George Eustice, to lift the ban on Cruiser SB (thiamethoxam) to control virus-spreading aphids in the case of the sugar beet crop as a temporary emergency measure.
Anabel Kindersley, Co-Owner of Neal’s Yard Remedies along with Jayn Sterland, Chair of the Sustainable Beauty Coalition and MD at Weleda UK, Millie Kendall OBE, Chief Executive Officer of the British Beauty Council, and Lucy Siegle, Environmental Writer and Broadcaster hand-delivered the letter to Downing Street on 31st March 2022.
Want to learn more? Head over to:
https://www.nealsyardremedies.com/blog/learning/calling-for-a-total-ban-on-neonicotinoids/
https://www.nealsyardremedies.com/celebrating-10-years-of-bee-lovely.list
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