NBKA
HONEY SHOW
Honey Show
Sunday 5th October 2025
Lowdham Village Hall NG14 7BD
Please contact our show secretary Simon Croson if you wish to volunteer or have any queries about the Honey Show
[email protected]
Entries to be in and on the bench by 11am. Judging to start by 11.15am.
Please email your completed entry form to simon prior to the day and bring a copy with you on the day
I trust you are all having a rewarding season, whilst writing this we are having some welcome rain to reinvigorate the summer blossoms, and are looking forward to the annual NBKA honey show. With lots of classes to allow everyone the chance to explore their show talents whether you have honey or not ! there are a few classes that do not require you to use your own honey i.e. the preserve and baking classes and everyone has access to a camera of some sort these days, will your photographic entry bee the one to catch the judges eye ?
Taking part in honey shows does make you explore your beekeeping activities more and in turn makes you a more learned beekeeper.
This year we have an additional class that is a great challenge the “Composite” class which will be Class 6B, it requires the exhibitor to stage an entry of three different jars of honey from the previous honey class descriptions, it’s a common class for most other honey shows, please see the schedule for further clarification.
Our 2024 honey show attracted 21 exhibitors who managed to put on a wonderful display of our craft with 163 staged exhibits. Hopefully this rewarding spring and early summer has provided you all with some great and varied honey to show, some wax to fashion into candles and various blocks, that long fermenting mead is “coming of age”, some photographic opportunities or simply something to write about, the show is open to all members regardless of the time you have been beekeeping.
We have been lucky in the past few years to award prizes for each of the classes and we hope to again this year but most of all we are very honoured to have a wide range of cups and trophies for the various classes and sections of the honey show, the most points trophy, the “Herrod Hempsall” cup was first awarded in 1909 and with the very first Nottinghamshire honey show taking place in 1879, we have a long and esteemed history within the British Beekeeping show fraternity, please bee a part of it.
I have managed to book a great guest speaker, Chris Park, who is known to many of you as the “Druid Beekeeper” he practices alternative beekeeping methods and is a keen user of maker of skeps, he’s a professional story teller too so the talk “Beekeeping Through the Ages” promises to offer some wise knowledge and entertainment whilst the judging takes place, Chris will start his talk at the same time as judging begins 1115 am. Please check out information about Chris on the various social media platforms that he provides to.
As always the show takes some putting together and running on the day so if you would like to get involved and help out there are a few jobs that require willing volunteers, setting up the show tables, helping out in the kitchen with drinks and snacks, we always have had a raffle too.
Full details of classes to enter are included in the show schedule that will be available below along with the rules and entry form, please read the rules as it’s very frustrating to rule out any entry for simple errors. Details will also go to each NBKA member via email from our secretary.
Simon Croson
Honey Show Secretary
Taking part in honey shows does make you explore your beekeeping activities more and in turn makes you a more learned beekeeper.
This year we have an additional class that is a great challenge the “Composite” class which will be Class 6B, it requires the exhibitor to stage an entry of three different jars of honey from the previous honey class descriptions, it’s a common class for most other honey shows, please see the schedule for further clarification.
Our 2024 honey show attracted 21 exhibitors who managed to put on a wonderful display of our craft with 163 staged exhibits. Hopefully this rewarding spring and early summer has provided you all with some great and varied honey to show, some wax to fashion into candles and various blocks, that long fermenting mead is “coming of age”, some photographic opportunities or simply something to write about, the show is open to all members regardless of the time you have been beekeeping.
We have been lucky in the past few years to award prizes for each of the classes and we hope to again this year but most of all we are very honoured to have a wide range of cups and trophies for the various classes and sections of the honey show, the most points trophy, the “Herrod Hempsall” cup was first awarded in 1909 and with the very first Nottinghamshire honey show taking place in 1879, we have a long and esteemed history within the British Beekeeping show fraternity, please bee a part of it.
I have managed to book a great guest speaker, Chris Park, who is known to many of you as the “Druid Beekeeper” he practices alternative beekeeping methods and is a keen user of maker of skeps, he’s a professional story teller too so the talk “Beekeeping Through the Ages” promises to offer some wise knowledge and entertainment whilst the judging takes place, Chris will start his talk at the same time as judging begins 1115 am. Please check out information about Chris on the various social media platforms that he provides to.
As always the show takes some putting together and running on the day so if you would like to get involved and help out there are a few jobs that require willing volunteers, setting up the show tables, helping out in the kitchen with drinks and snacks, we always have had a raffle too.
Full details of classes to enter are included in the show schedule that will be available below along with the rules and entry form, please read the rules as it’s very frustrating to rule out any entry for simple errors. Details will also go to each NBKA member via email from our secretary.
Simon Croson
Honey Show Secretary
Please contact our show secretary Simon Croson if you wish to volunteer or have any queries about the Honey Show
[email protected]
Entries to be in and on the bench by 11am. Judging to start by 11.15am.
Please email your completed entry form to simon prior to the day and bring a copy with you on the day
[email protected]
Entries to be in and on the bench by 11am. Judging to start by 11.15am.
Please email your completed entry form to simon prior to the day and bring a copy with you on the day
| _2025_nottinghamshire_beekeepers_association_honeyshow_schedule_.pdf |
| nbka_honeyshow_rules_2025.docx |
| 2025_nbka_honey_show_entry_form.docx |
| nbka_honey_cake.pdf |
| nbka_honey_lemon_curd_example_recipe.pdf |