MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
Application details for 2026 Membership.
Existing members should have received a renewal invitation email with your Membership details pre-loaded to reduce the form filling. Look for ‘membershipservices’ in your Inbox or Spam if you haven’t seen it.
Alternatively complete one of the Membership Forms attached below.
People are very welcome to join the Exeter Beekeepers’ Association and will enjoy the formally defined benefits of:
- Fortnightly Apiary meetings in the summer,
- Monthly lectures on winter evenings (Currently on hold!),
- Monthly beekeeping magazine distributed by the British Beekeepers Association,
- Monthly magazine on local topics distributed by Devon BKA – email version
- Bee Disease Insurance for three colonies of bees,
- Access to meetings at other Associations in Devon,
- Access to other Beekeeping courses as your skills develop.
Many informal benefits are greatly enjoyed by our Members include:
- The opportunity to sit and chat through shared experiences after Beekeeper meetings over a cup of tea or coffee (and sometime biscuits!!)
- Developing your practical beekeeping skills alongside other Members,
- Hiring EBKA equipment for those seasonal jobs which may not justify buying your own item (e.g. honey extractor)
- Periodic bulk purchases to reduce individual buying costs (e.g. honey jars, wax foundation, bee feed etc),
And, most importantly, the fascination, continuous learning, enthusiasm and relaxation of observing honeybees in their day to day lives – plus the added bonus of the best tasting honey anywhere in the world – the honey produced by your bees!
In summary the types of membership and extras included are:-
- Registered/ School (cost £33) – includes BDI insurance for up to 3 colonies, BBKA News and Devon Beekeeping (email version) magazines
- Partner (cost £19.50 – only available to someone living at the same address as a Registered member) – no BDI insurance or magazines
- Junior (£8) – BBKA News and Devon Beekeepers (email version) magazines but no BDI insurance
- Local (£6) – Devon Beekeepers (email version) magazine only
- Devon BKA magazine in printed and posted form (£18)
Only registered and partner members can vote at general meetings.
Full details of the types of membership are detailed on the attachments. There are two documents at the bottom of this page – Application form for Renewals and New Members (includes Guidance Notes) have now been consolidated into one form.. The application forms are available in MS-Word format for updating on your PC and Adobe format for handwritten applications..There are notes to help completing the application on the form
Details of the Bee Diseases Insurance can be found on the BBKA website
2026 RENEWAL form for EXISTING MEMBERS (or use the link emailed to you from DBKA). Please use the same form for new Membership applications
In MS Word format 2026-Membership Form
And in Adobe format 2026-Membership Form