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A warm welcome Business Charity Awards Gill Perkins, CEO and Barnaby Smith, Public
Engagement Manager recently attended the
Business Charity Awards with Nicola Johansen
The Trust would like to extend a warm and Olivia Ward from Redrow Homes. The
welcome to the following staff who have Trust and Redrow Homes, have been working
recently joined us:
closely together for a number of years, helping
Keren Rennie joins us as Finance Redrow improve their new house build sites
Assistant based in our Stirling office. Keren and adopt bee-friendly showhomes and
brings a wealth of experience to the Trust You may have seen the launch of the gardens.
and will support our Finance team. #GYBhunt in June. We’re asking locals
Yvonne Imrie joins as our new Support and people taking their holidays in the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and the house-
building company, were named as finalist in this
Services Officer looking after our members north of Scotland to hunt for the rare
and supporters. Yvonne has worked in Great Yellow bumblebee in 28 specific year’s Business Charity Awards for ‘Homes for bumblebees’ in the Charity partnership
conservation for over five years and has a grid references – each measuring 10×10 - property and construction category. Although the partnership did not win, it was a
customer service background. km – between June and September, great achievement to be nominated as finalists and to showcase our work.
Angela Grant joins as Finance Officer at sites ranging from Tiree, the Uists, Our new Trustees West Country Buzz Funding Boost
based in our Stirling office. Angela will look Harris and Lewis, across Sutherland and
after unrestricted funds. Caithness on the mainland, to Orkney Beth O’Sullivan joins the board Earlier this year our West Country Buzz
Lisa Scott joined the Trust in May as our and Shetland. To read how you can help as Communications Trustee, project received a real boost, receiving a
Digital and Operations Officer supporting visit www.bumblebeeconservation.org/ bringing a wealth of experience in grant from the Dulverton Trust. Together
the Trust on its digital journey and great-big-gyb-hunt/ communications and marketing. Beths with an anticipated grant from Natural
operational functions. diverse roles with businesses, charities England, this means that the project is now
Backyard Nature campaign Are you a resident in Kent? We also and the public sector will bring new and almost fully funded for a further year. This
fresh perspectives at this exciting time.
allows us to continue our work on the Moss
launched our Kent poetry competition!
Everyone in the beautiful county of Kent A keen animal and wildlife lover, Beth carder and Brown banded carder bee.
From July, the Trust will be can ‘bee’ creative this summer by writing is keen to do all she can to protect and
supporting the Backyard ‘buzzing’ poetry which celebrates the enhance our beautiful countryside. This is great news to continue to fund
Nature campaign which county’s beautiful bees, coastline and the conservation work being undertaken
aims to get all children to countryside. The winner will receive a Our other appointment to the Board, to secure these rare bees and we will be
spend more time enjoying cash prize of £100 presented by our is Zuleika Brett taking up the position seeking funding for a further two years.
and protecting nature where patron Olly Smith. You can read more of Fundraising Trustee. Zuleika has
they live. Working with Semble and the at www.bumblebeeconservation.org/ built up considerable knowledge in Thank you!
Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation, we kent-competition-aims-to-get-local- fundraising over the years from small Thanks to the wonderful nomination and
will encourage children (and their grown- residents-buzzing-about-bee-poetry/ to mid-sized charities. Zuleika is based subsequent voting by members of giffgaff’s
ups), especially those in communities in Edinburgh where she manages her Community Payback Scheme, the Trust
least likely to get outdoors, to become ‘mini’ haven for wildlife. received a whopping £22,962 donation in
Backyard Nature Guardians, and give Apology notice June! Customers enrolled in the scheme
them the tools they need to protect their can decide twice a year to convert
own patch of nature - no matter how The excellent guest article in our March Payback points they have earned into
small. For more information, follow us on edition ‘Are road verges good or bad cash, credit or a donation to charity. The
social media or visit for bumblebees?’, was written by Claire June Payback points were split between
www.backyardnature.org Wallace (not Wallis). the Trust and Parkinson’s UK.

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