Bee Experience Booking Terms & Conditions

Bee Experience Booking Terms & Conditions

Please read these terms carefully before completing your booking. By ticking the agreement box at checkout, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to these terms.

1. Eligibility All participants must be aged 10 or over. By booking, you confirm that all attendees meet this requirement.

2. Health & Safety Beekeeping involves working with live bees. By attending a Jessie's Bees experience, all participants acknowledge that there is a risk of bee stings and agree to participate entirely at their own risk. Jessie's Bees cannot be held liable for any stings, allergic reactions, or injuries sustained during the experience.

Please do not book if you or any member of your group has a known bee sting allergy.

3. Preparing for Your Visit Please wear comfortable clothing. We advise all participants to wear a long sleeve top, long trousers, a hat or cap, and boots or wellies that cover the ankles as extra safety precautions. Jessie's Bees will provide suits and gloves for all participants.

4. Cancellation Policy

  • Cancellations made more than 6 months before your booking date will receive a full refund.
  • Cancellations made between 6 months and 4 weeks before your booking date will receive a 50% refund of the total booking price.
  • Cancellations made within 4 weeks of your booking date are non-refundable.

To cancel your booking, please contact us at hello.jessiesbees@gmail.com. Refunds will be processed within 10 working days.

5. Rescheduling If you need to reschedule your booking, please give us at least 2 weeks' notice by contacting hello.jessiesbees@gmail.com. Rescheduling requests made with less than 2 weeks' notice cannot be guaranteed.

6. Weather & Rescheduling by Jessie's Bees The safety and enjoyment of our experiences depends on suitable weather conditions. In the event of bad weather or temperatures below 12°C, Jessie's Bees reserves the right to reschedule your booking. We will provide as much notice as possible and aim to give at least 2 weeks' notice where we can. In this instance, you will be offered an alternative date or a full refund.

7. Liability Jessie's Bees takes all reasonable precautions to ensure the safety of our guests. However, participation in this experience is at your own risk. Jessie's Bees accepts no liability for loss, damage, or injury howsoever caused, except where required by law.

8. Contact For any queries regarding your booking, please contact us at hello.jessiesbees@gmail.com.

Take a look at our journey over the past 10 years...

2017-2018

The circumstance of how this all started was strange, I was working at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships when my friends mother asked me if I wanted to go beekeeping with her on my day off. I didn't know what to expect but I'll never forget the feeling of opening up that first hive and seeing hundreds of honeybees. I was hooked from the get go and when I was back 'up North' I signed up for a Beginners Beekeeping course and had a wonderful mentor called John who taught me everything.

2019-2021

The years that followed were a huge uphill learning curve. The honeybees know how to keep you humble, and every time I thought I had learned and mastered something, there was another surprise and learning moment. During this time I wrote my university dissertation on the impacts of adultered honey on local beekeepers - now a common and wideknown issue. Tip: If a jar says a blend of EU and Non-EU honeys ... it's not honey. But all of that aside, the passion for this hobby and my homeland of Yorkshire was constantly growing.

2022-2025

Once I'd mastered the art of knowing nothing and everything simultaneously, I thought it would be a great idea to enter into our local 'Halifax Honey Show'. It was a pleasant surprise, and real 'holy honey' moment when we walked away several 1st and 2nd class rossetes for our honey. But the real winner was our darling girl, Rosie, best in show! As the years and seasons rolled by, we took great joy in the time we spent with the bees and being outside in nature.

2026

And this leads us to today, somehow a decade of keeping bees already. I feel so incredibly blessed that I've been able to share this passion with my dad (Brian) who has supported behind the scenes, and can attest to the fact that without him the whole operation would fall apart. He's our heavy lifting, frame making, honey eating monster and I wouldn't have it any other way. And as I look ahead to the next 10 years, I'm super excited. I'm embarking on my Master Beekeeper journey which takes several years, and my dad is taking our queen reering efforts a step further by raising Nucs which will be available to purchase from 2027. We hope you stick around for this next chapter...