Corporate Partnerships
We believe in the power of partnership. Through meaningful company support, we work with like-minded businesses to create bigger, bolder change than we ever could alone.
Partnering with Bees for Development delivers meaningful, measurable impact. We create sustainable livelihoods for some of the world’s poorest communities using low-cost, nature-based beekeeping. Your support helps people earn an income, protects biodiversity, and strengthens ecosystems while aligning your brand with a proven, practical solution to poverty and environmental decline. Our approach is trusted, transparent, and long-lasting. With us, every pound makes a real difference; every partnership helps bees, people, and the planet thrive.
Our work incredibly helps to address all 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that by 2030, all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
To continue our vital work, we need your support.
Partnering with Bees for Development helps you meet your CSR goals, builds stronger customer connections and creates lasting impact.
Our strategic partnerships are mutually beneficial, long-term partnerships with corpoations who share our values and have a commitment to making a lasting impact. We offer the opportunity to create sustainable livelihoods through beekeeping and our corporate partnerships have already allowed us to train and support thousands of beekeepers around the world.
You can choose a project to fund, whether that’s giving women the skills to generate their own income through honey and beeswax, or our wonderful Buzz Clubs in Ghana in which we educate school children in beekeeping and the importance of protecting the environment. We have a wide range of projects to fit your brand’s specialism.
We partner with Rowse Honey on the ‘Hives for Lives’ project in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. This collaboration aims to empower local communities by providing beekeeping training and reforesting degraded lands.
Impact achieved from the partnership:
- Beekeeper training: Since 2018, over 360 individuals have received beekeeping training, equipping them with sustainable income-generating skills.
- Land reforestation: The initiative has successfully reforested 80 hectares of land, introducing 10 different tree species to restore habitats and support bee populations.
- Community impact: Approximately 540 families have benefited from the program, with beekeeping contributing up to 40% of their annual income.
- Environmental benefits: The project has led to the planting of 148,000 trees, enhancing biodiversity and combating deforestation.
We also collaborated on a stand at the 2022 RHS Chelsea Flower Show which won a silver medal.
This partnership demonstrates Rowse’s commitment to sustainable practices and community development, aligning with the values of their customers who prioritise ethical and impactful brands.
“This partnership is incredibly meaningful to us – we’re so glad to see that together, we’re making a real impact in empowering beekeepers and protecting biodiversity. It’s inspiring to see such tangible outcomes from our joint efforts.“
– Rowse
A YouGov survey found that 45% of consumers are more likely to buy from brands that donate a portion of their sales to charity.
Our cause-related marketing partnerships create a direct link between purchasing a product/service and supporting a cause, helping to align the brand with meaningful social and environmental issues.
Together, we can drive greater impact, growing customer loyalty and engaging new audiences.
Our marketing partnership with
The Neals Yard Bee Lovely collection features products crafted with bee-derived ingredients such as honey, beeswax, and propolis, combined with uplifting organic orange essential oil. Purchases from this range contribute to bee conservation efforts, with a percentage of profits going to Bees for Development.
Impact achieved from the partnership:
- Women’s empowerment: Neal’s Yard chose to support a women’s beekeeper training project in Uganda, giving participants the skills to create their own sustainable income through beekeeping and approximately 1,000 hives being made in the process!
- Pollination for increased crop yields: Neal’s Yard also support our work with cashew farmers in Ghana. Bee colonies were introduced into cashew orchards to boost harvests, after low yields were found to be a result of poor pollination.
- Increased public awareness for Bees for Development: The more people who know about the impactful work we do, the better! And by having our logo on this high quality range gives us real gravitas to their consumers.
- Ongoing support: This allows us to plan our work and commit to long-term projects.
The Bee Lovely collection is a great example of a successful marketing partnership, effectively combining product development and charitable collaboration to support livelihoods through beekeeping.
Become a marketing partner and help transform lives with every purchase. By donating a percentage of product sales, your brand can support sustainable beekeeping, strengthen communities, and protect biodiversity. Together, we can create meaningful impact, engage customers, and show how business can genuinely help people and the planet thrive.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
Amazingly, bees and beekeeping can help to address every one of the 17 goals:
Our work shows that beekeeping can generate a cash transfer from nature in a sustainable way, helping people to earn their way out of poverty.
People we have helped in Ethiopia, Ghana and Nepal rely on bee pollination to produce fruits, oilseeds and vegetables: helping to achieve food security. Honey provides a nutritious and wholesome food.
We enabled a hospital In Sierra Leone to begin beekeeping – to produce good quality honey for their wound clinic.
In Ghana beekeepers we trained are now able to pay for their children’s school costs, ensuring that young people in rural areas can access education.
We are training women as beekeeper trainers in Ghana, India and Uganda, so they can get jobs, serve as role models, and break down barriers – helping more women and girls to keep bees.
Beekeepers are at the forefront of our work to reforest water catchment areas in Amhara, Ethiopia: restoring both bee habitats and permanent natural water supplies.
Oil seed crops grown by farmers for energy in India need good pollination by bees and offer bonus crops of honey too.
Our work on honey and beeswax market chains in Uganda and Ethiopia is helping to create resilient livelihoods across many sectors of society beyond beekeepers: makers of tools, clothing, and secondary products, and packers and traders.
Our work in Ghana is creating a linked-up beekeeping and honey trade economy, and we are innovating with novel materials for hive-making and an electronic traceability system for honey.
Our beekeeping work with vulnerable groups, such as vision impaired people in Uganda, is helping to reduce inequality by giving them income-generating potential and increasing status and respect.
People love to see wildlife in towns and cities, and bees and flowers make life better for everyone. This is behind our efforts in UK to raise awareness of the value of bees, with our Bee Garden Party events, Monmouth Bee Festival and Bee Friendly Monmouthshire.
We are working to elevate consumers’ understanding about the difference between intensive, unsustainable practices and sustainable nature-based beekeeping. Working within nature’s limits goes to the heart of our ethos.
Bees and trees are part of the solution for climate change. Beekeepers in Ethiopia are planting trees and in Zimbabwe they are preventing forest fires.
Restoration of coastal margins is essential – mangroves and other habitat types are useful for bees and bring welcome income opportunities. Following the Tsunami we helped to restore mangroves in Banda Aceh, Indonesia during 2005-2007.
Flowering Ethiopian forests are full of bees and full of beekeepers too. In Southwest Ethiopia we are working to ensure that beekeeping gives people financial incentive to protect their forests.
We have witnessed wonderful examples of beekeeping helping to break down ethnic tensions, in Chechnya, and currently in Uganda with Batwa people.
We are very proud of our role in creating The Uganda National Apiculture Development Organisation – now representing over 1 million beekeepers in Uganda.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
Amazingly, bees and beekeeping can help to address every one of the 17 goals:
Our work shows that beekeeping can generate a cash transfer from nature in a sustainable way, helping people to earn their way out of poverty.
People we have helped in Ethiopia, Ghana and Nepal rely on bee pollination to produce fruits, oilseeds and vegetables: helping to achieve food security. Honey provides a nutritious and wholesome food.
We enabled a hospital In Sierra Leone to begin beekeeping – to produce good quality honey for their wound clinic.
In Ghana beekeepers we trained are now able to pay for their children’s school costs, ensuring that young people in rural areas can access education.
We are training women as beekeeper trainers in Ghana, India and Uganda, so they can get jobs, serve as role models, and break down barriers – helping more women and girls to keep bees.
Beekeepers are at the forefront of our work to reforest water catchment areas in Amhara, Ethiopia: restoring both bee habitats and permanent natural water supplies.
Oil seed crops grown by farmers for energy in India need good pollination by bees and offer bonus crops of honey too.
Our work on honey and beeswax market chains in Uganda and Ethiopia is helping to create resilient livelihoods across many sectors of society beyond beekeepers: makers of tools, clothing, and secondary products, and packers and traders.
Our work in Ghana is creating a linked-up beekeeping and honey trade economy, and we are innovating with novel materials for hive-making and an electronic traceability system for honey.
Our beekeeping work with vulnerable groups, such as vision impaired people in Uganda, is helping to reduce inequality by giving them income-generating potential and increasing status and respect.
People love to see wildlife in towns and cities, and bees and flowers make life better for everyone. This is behind our efforts in UK to raise awareness of the value of bees, with our Bee Garden Party events, Monmouth Bee Festival and Bee Friendly Monmouthshire.
We are working to elevate consumers’ understanding about the difference between intensive, unsustainable practices and sustainable nature-based beekeeping. Working within nature’s limits goes to the heart of our ethos.
Bees and trees are part of the solution for climate change. Beekeepers in Ethiopia are planting trees and in Zimbabwe they are preventing forest fires.
Restoration of coastal margins is essential – mangroves and other habitat types are useful for bees and bring welcome income opportunities. Following the Tsunami we helped to restore mangroves in Banda Aceh, Indonesia during 2005-2007.
Flowering Ethiopian forests are full of bees and full of beekeepers too. In Southwest Ethiopia we are working to ensure that beekeeping gives people financial incentive to protect their forests.
We have witnessed wonderful examples of beekeeping helping to break down ethnic tensions, in Chechnya, and currently in Uganda with Batwa people.
We are very proud of our role in creating The Uganda National Apiculture Development Organisation – now representing over 1 million beekeepers in Uganda.
