BEES MATTER

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Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe - JustGiving will never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - provided you are a UK taxpayer, Bees Abroad will receive approximately £1.19 for every £1.00 you sponsor a child, and it doesn't cost you a penny more.

This year the Trevor Roberts Sponsored Run is raising money for Bees Abroad UK, a very small UK based charity that combines the issues of the environment and development.

The entire senior school and staff chose Bees Abroad in an election that was held on May 6th, the same day as the UK election. From the four competing charities, Bees Abroad, represented by Artie Blair in Tertius, won a clear victory.

Below you will see the text from Artie Blair's election poster. If you want more information on the activities of Bees Abroad please visit their website at www.beesabroad.org.uk

BEES MATTER
It is estimated that a third of everything we eat depends upon honeybee pollination, which means that bees contribute some £26bn to the global economy. But world-wide, bees are dying out. The collapse in the global honeybee population is a major threat to crops.                                            

NO BEES MEANS NO CROPS MEANS NO FOOD
Flowering plants require insects for pollination. The most effective is the honeybee, which pollinates 90 crops worldwide. As well as most fruits and vegetables – including apples, oranges, strawberries, onions and carrots – they pollinate nuts, sunflowers and oil-seed rape. Coffee, soya beans, clovers, and even cotton all depend on honeybees. Mankind has been using bees for centuries to pollinate food and produce honey. Their extinction would mean not only a colourless, meatless diet of cereals and rice, and cottonless clothes, but no orchards, allotments, meadows of wildflowers – and the collapse of the food chain that sustains wild birds and animals.

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From all of us at Trevor Roberts